REAL NAME: Bernhard Rieker
OCCUPATION: Government agent
IDENTITY: Secret
CLASS: Human magic user
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of Germany
OTHER ALIASES: NA
PLACE OF BIRTH: Freudenberg, Germany
MARITAL STATUS: NA
KNOWN RELATIVES: NA
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Nazi Party
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE: Daredevil Comics #09 (April 1942)
HEIGHT: 5' 6"
WEIGHT: 187 lbs
EYES: Gray
HAIR: Black (shaved)
Herr Rieker was an agent of the Third Reich who posed as the mentalist "Professor Venom" to hide his work as a saboteur and spy in the United States and England. Well, actually he was a true mentalist, a really good one indeed. Though not good enough to escape America's masked heroes.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Professor Venom used a cane with an eye-shaped cap to hypnotize his victims and make them carry out any order he sent them like authentic automata.