WHITE-SHEET WILLIE
Real Name: Unrevealed (William?)
Identity/Class: Normal human (1950s era)
Occupation: Criminal, fugitive
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Homer Ghost,
police
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: (near) Ghost Town, USA
First Appearance: Homer, the Happy Ghost#7/1
(March, 1956)
Powers/Abilities: White-Sheet Willie is a
dangerous criminal armed with a pistol-type handgun who uses a simple
white sheet with eye holes to conceal his identity.
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 140 lbs.
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed
History:
(Homer, the Happy Ghost#7/1 (fb) - BTS) - The
criminal White-Sheet Willie, so called because he always wore a white
sheet to hide his identity, escaped police custody near Ghost Town
where Homer Ghost lived. This sparked a large police manhunt with a
warning over the radio. Armed with a handgun, White-Sheet Willie hid an
alleyway.
(Homer, the Happy Ghost#7/1) - Homer heard the radio
warning but innocently ignored it as he ventured into town to buy a
notebook. Flying in the air after a case of mistaken identity with
police, Homer saw White-Sheet Willie and floated down to investigate.
White-Sheet Willie was angry at Homer's seeming imitation in
appearance, but when Homer declared he wanted to catch the crook,
White-Sheet Willie tied Homer up in rope, but the ghost just walked
through it. The commotion caught the attention of the police and both
were taken in a police van to the court where the judge ordered the
sheets be removed. White-Sheet Willie was instantly revealed but when
the police, judge and crook all discovered that Homer was truly a
ghost, they ran away scared, with White-Sheet Willie begging to be
arrested to escape the ghost.
Comments: Created by Stan Lee & Dan DeCarlo.
Just like Disney's criminal Beagle Boys, this villain
also wore an eye mask to (further help) hide his identity(!).
Hm. White man in a white hood-like sheet. Did Stan
Lee see the implications? Maybe so, given the prominence of the civil
rights movement around that time. Or maybe I'm just reading too much
into a Stan Lee comedy script.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
:
White Sheet Willie has no known connections to:
images:
(without ads)
Homer, the Happy Ghost I#7/1, p4, pan1 (main image)
p3, pan5 (headshot)
Appearances:
Homer, the Happy Ghost I#7/1 (March, 1956) - Stan Lee (writer
& editor), Dan DeCarlo (pencils & inks)
First posted: 11/13/2024
Last updated:
11/13/2024
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