The warden on this page from Flash #174. And the guard too.
Seriously, what kind of idiot looks at the Mirror Master polishing a mirror and doesn’t think “Uh-oh”? Certainly not the warden in Flash #136, who wouldn’t let Scudder near any sort of mirror (he made one anyway). Nor in Flash #219 —
— in which the Mirror Master has to go to absurd lengths to create a homemade reflecting surface.
Apparently somewhere in-between those stories, the penal system hired an idiot. Admittedly those other yarns show Scudder would have found a way to bust out eventually, but still.
On the bright side, the John Broome/Carmine Infantino story does boast one of my favorite covers.
#SFWApro. Flash #219 cover by Nicholas Cardy, everything else is Infantino.
I always liked Mirror Master, though I never quite understood the point of his headgear. It looks vaguely like an amateur wrestler’s headgear, or possibly a boxer’s sparring headgear, at times, but if is just a weird design. Never seemed to have any function, either.
I don’t think any of Flash’s Rogue’s Gallery were terribly functionalist in their costume design (except Heat Wave) but you’re right, it is an odd detail.
I swear I’ve seen the ‘this villain is notorious for doing X, so I’ll just ignore him doing X’ trope elsewhere, but I can’t remember where.
Same here.
The most obvious example is anyone letting Luthor work with any sort of technical equipment, even the prison workshop’s stuff.
That is a really nice cover, I love how the villains interact with the title itself. Great job by the artist.
Infantino. He loved doing title/character interactions although he says marketing grumbled about them.