User blog:Queen Misery/Pure Evil Proposal: Skrak

I don't normally propose a character upon creating an article but this guy.. he's something else.. now he's no Billy Kincaid or whatever but PLEASE be mindful this is a character from the 1950s.. he's not going to be allowed to get away with nearly the same level of stuff modern day characters do because of censorship at the time and culture in general : for 1950s he's actually pretty darn controversial to say the least..

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Skrak

Who Is He / What Has He Done?
Skrak is an enigmatic and beloved artist in the 1950s who specializes in macabre paintings that depict pain, horror and suffering - his work sells well and he uses this wealth to live a rich but reclusive lifestyle, living within his mansion and venturing out to sell his works but never allowing anyone to watch him work.

This is because Skrak is also a serial-kidnapper with a knowledge of plastic surgery, which he uses to deform and twist prisoners into living "monsters" - which he then uses as inspirations for his paintings : he keeps his victims chained up in the mansion indefinitely, there's no telling how many people he has done this to but the numbers must be very high considering his paintings are very sought after in the art world and each painting is unique.. meaning that for every painting made he must of also captured and mutilated some poor individual to do so.

Excuses?
none, unless you want to argue he is mentally ill - even that fails to be an excuse when you remember he's a very old man who has been doing this for a very long time and got away with it : he hides his victims away, he knows what he's doing will get him executed if caught and he has no tragic backstory.. as far as the story goes he just does all this because he sees himself as an artist and is willing to profit from the pain of others.

Heinous Standards?
unlike modern Marvel in the 1950s there was virtually no real over-arching canon, each story was basically its own thing - much like Tales from the Crypt, Twilight Zone and so forth.. so Skrak *is* the heinous standards of the story, there are no superheroes or supervillains in this era of Marvel for him to compete with.. this is well before the Fantasic Four, who heralded in the superhero age of Marvel.

Thus Skrak (like all pre-FF characters in Marvel) is his own heinous standards.