History: (Star Spangled Comics I #4) - Blade styled himself the monarch of murder, and kept his gang in line with threats of using his knife on them. He knew the crime business needed a big thinker, and he decided to kidnap Gomez, president of Torono, who was visiting the city. Blade and his gang arrived at a reception for the president and absconded with him. The mysteryman Tarantula was on the scene, and pursued, leaping into their getaway vehicle, and in a daring fight with Blade he tossed the villain into the river. Blade recovered, speedily made his way to Gomez' hotel, and kidnapped his daughter, demanding a ransom. Tarantula assured Gomez he was the man to save his daughter. He broke one of Blade's men out of jail, claiming to be on the side of crime, and shadowed him until he learned of the Blade's location. He defeated the Blade, rescued Paula, and returned her to her grateful father.

Comments: Created by an unnamed writer & Harold Sharpe.

In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths DC Universe the Blade lived on Earth-2.

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