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Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned
Eddie Jacobi's boyhood was a hell-ride of ridicule and abuse, due to his freakish appearance, and he grew up bitter and antisocial. Inspired by a carnival stage magician, he incorporated that theme into his developing criminal outlook. He did his first premeditated murder in early adolescence, then ran away from home.
In 1937 he put together a vaudeville-style act, now calling himself Moloch the Mystic. It paid very poorly, so he robbed banks as a sideline, developing criminal applications for familiar magic tricks. This was more lucrative and more fun, so Jacobi recruited some thugs and went into robbery and kidnapping full-time. As the eccentric technology of his era developed, he availed himself of such advanced devices as Professor Tungren's Solar Mirror Weapon. His early clashes with the colorful vigilante criminal-fighters of the early 1940s was frustrating for him, but in the long run was educational. He learned and invented a lot of new tricks, while getting into and out of prison, over the next several decades.
While serving one life sentence, much to his own surprise, Edgar Jacobi was paroled, due to the influence of the famous Adrian Viedt, Ozymandias, who had an important matter to discuss with him.
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Writers: J. Michael Straczynski, John Higgins
Interior art: Eduardo Risso, John Higgins
Color: Patricia Mulvihill, John Higgins
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