List of Marvel Family Enemies - Woman of A 1000 Faces

Woman of A 1000 Faces

Only appearing in Marvel Family #39. Mary after school works as a clerk in a store, a man tells her to watch out for shoplifters who have been operating recently. She sees a Woman stealing a fur and transforms. However the Woman fights and somehow gets away, then causes Mary Marvel to get her head stuck in a trumpet. Mary thinks she hid behind a post, but finds a little old lady who calls herself Dame Deeples. She leaves, but Mary sees a note saying Greetings from the Woman of a thousand faces. The Women changes again, walking past two Policeman describing her as tall, good clothes, society type. However Mary sees the Woman carrying a large pocket book the shoplifter had and follows her in case she's part of a gang. She goes into an apartment house, however there are dozens of rooms making Mary lose the trail. She goes through an open door where a sculptress is working, and asks if anybody here is a criminal, the women says they are all poor hard-working people, however Mary sees a stolen fur hanging from a drawer, but is delayed by the Woman throwing a bust at her. She goes outside and asks a woman which way the lady sculptor went. She is told she went round the corner, and seizes a woman. She tries to pull her wig off, but realises she made a mistake, and leaves as the angry woman says she'll have Mary arrested. The woman has meanwhile reached her room and decides to watch out for Mary, who decides to become Mary Batson in case the Woman is watching out. However as she opens the door she activates a warning signal, and is knocked out by a statue head that drops onto her head. She is bound and gagged by the Lady who doesn't recognise her but thinks she might give her away and she has another job. The Woman disguises herself as Mary and says she'll play the greatest role of her career. She changes to Mary Marvel then leaves, saying she can hardly wait to pull the job. After she has left Mary thinks she'll hooks her gag on the arm of a statue, though the art makes it look like the statue's finger, and transforms. On the radio she hears the Acme Steel Company's Payroll Truck broke down at the city bank, but Mary Marvel has offered to fly the funds to the Bank. Meanwhile the Woman has the funds and asks if the guard trusts her, and is told she's the person he trusts most in the whole World. She says she'll start flying round the corner, but encounters the real flying Mary Marvel, who flies her to the Steel Mill. A man is amazed to see two Mary Marvels. Mary then flies them both to a Police Station, where she asks the desk Officer to arrest the Woman for fraudulent impersonation and all her crimes. He asks which one is real, Mary says it is her and takes of the Woman's disguise revealing the Sculptress, who says she failed to win fame and fortune with her sculptures so turned to crime in bitterness. As a Policeman leads her to a cell, Mary says she'll have plenty of time in jail to perfect her sculpting technique and ponder her mistake of trying to win fame through crime.