Master Mind Excello
Master Mind Excello, born Earl Everett, is an American hero, socialite, and an agent for the United States government. He possesses various mental abilities, including telepathy.
Biography
Excello's first known case came in 1940 while on a ship ride back from an assignment in Europe. He mentally detected a couple of spies in another cabin, and discovered that they were devising some sort of plot against the United States. Excello deliberately got himself captured in order to be taken to their superior; the plan worked, and the spies took Excello to a smaller battleship anchored nearby to meet Arnold Kadash.[1] The spies, who were from Sovernia, chained Excello up in the underbelly of the ship. There Excello telepathically listened in on their conversation, learning that they were planning to bomb several key locations across the U.S.. They also mentioned a rendezvous with Marko at a "super power plant." He escaped his bonds just as Kadash was leaving by plane, and himself commandeered a plane in pursuit. He trailed Kadash to an office building in New York City, and knocked him out and assumed his identity. He traveled to the super power plant in Reedsville, New Jersey, where his disguise was enough to fool Marko into revealing the Sovernians' plans: to use the plant's powerful turbines to trigger explosions across the country. Excello revealed his identity at a critical moment, fending off the Sovernian guards and destroying the plant with a small vial of high-powered explosive. Excello sent word to his government superiors of the plot and brought the spies to justice.[2]
Excello soon psychically learned of a series of train sabotages, and set upon putting a stop to them. While disarming an explosive set to destroy another train, Excello was ambushed by henchmen of Ira Borovich.[1] Coming to some time later, Excello again used his mental powers to track down his assailants, disguising as a villain himself. He found Borovich to be a foreign agent[note 1] intending to do catastrophic harm to America's train and subway systems. Through a series of adventurous displays, Excello was able to stop the agents, shooting Borovich dead.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Borovich is described as being from "Kussia," but this fact is conspicuously absent in future publications, indicating that it has likely been retconned out of existence.