Jack Joddy
Only appearing in Marvel Family #54. A scientist whose Greenhouse is in financial difficulties so he creates an animal hormone that gives plants the power to move and talk, causing them to commit a holdup for him. He comes along disguised as another plant. Mary Batson is due at the party, sees the robbery, and becomes Mary Marvel. She overpowers them but they escape by standing stll next to other plants. They then give the Jewels, which they are hiding in themselves, to him. Later Mary visits Zooly and thinks she saw a cactus move. She hides and sees him give orders to the plants. She tries to say her magic word, but a tendril from a plant coils round her throat, preventing her saying her magic word. Mary is then bound and gagged and placed inside a Tiger plant from the tropics that starts closing on her, after which it will digest her. But she hooks her gag on a spikes and jerks her head back, removing her gag and enabling her to transform. She destroys the plants and takes Zooly to jail.
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