Mister Mind and The Monster Society of Evil - Cultural References

Cultural References

• Mr. Mind was the inspiration for The Wicked Worm, a villain featured in the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon (correlating to the Wicked Worm's heroic adversary, Mighty Man, being a counterpart to Captain Marvel). The Wicked Worm began as a sentient leech-like creature that could control other living beings by attaching itself to a victim's neck and tapping into their nervous system. Discovering that it could self-duplicate by cutting itself in half and regenerating into a pair of identical beings (similar to the ability of flatworms), the Wicked Worm later became a veritable army of worms, and, enveloping a host body, formed a composite being called Horde, similar to the Spider-Man villain Swarm, who was made up of bees. As Horde, the Wicked Worms made several bids to take command of the superhuman criminal element in the city of Chicago, often acting through mind-controlled proxies; it/they only fully emerged as Horde after their manipulations become so widely known that further subterfuge would have been pointless.