Blond Adder

Real Name: Lee Courtney Nace

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Adventurer, former stage magician, acrobat, cowboy, chemist

Affiliations: Julia Nace (assistant)

Enemies: Green Skull, Robin Hood Lloyd, Sgt. Gooch, Honest John MacGill

Known Relatives: Julia Nace (cousin)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unknown

First Appearance: "The Death Blast," Ten Detective Aces (July 1933)

Powers/Abilities: Skilled scientist; armed with various gadgets but not a gun.

History: A tall, gaunt man with an angular face, Missouri-born adventurer Lee Nace was known as the Blond Adder due to a serpentine scar on his forehead, a relic of being hit on the head with the hilt of a knife that had a serpent shaped carving on it. Using his scientific knowledge he repeatedly solved macabre cases, though his involvement was not welcomed by Homicide's Sergeant Gooch. Scotland Yard, on the other hand, once hired him for an entire year just so they could study his methods.

Comments: Created by Lester Dent. Nace starred in five adventures, all of which were published in Ten Detective Aces in 1933:

• The Death Blast, July 1933
• The Skeleton’s Clutch, August 1933
• The Diving Dead, September 1933
• The Tank of Terror, October 1933
• The Flaming Mask, December 1933

CLARIFICATIONS: None.

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