CARLETON CONGO

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human

Occupation: Criminal

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City, 1940s era

First Appearance: Green Lantern I #15 (Spring, 1945)

Powers: Congo used elaborate rituals to pose as a witch doctor. He was deaf, and able to read lips.

History: (Green Lantern I #15) - Carleton Congo was a racketeer who gave himself all the trappings of a voodoo doctor to inspire fear in his fellow criminals. He enhanced his image by using lip-reading to make it appear that he could read minds. Two men approached him about cursing their enemies, Grebbs who wanted his radio announcer Alan Scott gone, and Dude Perkins, who was sick of his taxi rival Doiby Dickles. Congo performed an elaborate ritual, and burned voodoo dolls of Alan and Doiby. He said they'd be gone by daybreak, and once his clients left he sent his thugs to kidnap the targets. They went after Doiby first, and Alan Scott, in his secret identity of Green Lantern, fought them off. Doiby ran into Duke, who confessed that he'd hired Congo for a hex, and Doiby ran after him into the night. GL returned home to his darkened apartment to find more of Congo's thugs waiting for him, and allowed himself to be rolled in a sheet and kidnapped to find out what Congo's game was. The thugs revealed they were after Alan Scott, so GL quickly stripped out of his clothes under the sheet so his secret identity would not be compromised. Congo tossed him in a cell, and announced to his clients that his voodoo had destroyed Alan and Doiby. "Dude" turned out to be Doiby in disguise, and he and GL, who'd freed himself, made short work of Congo and his men.

Comments: Created by Alfred Bester & Martin Nodell.