Other characters were only somewhat less legally contentious. The handsome Prof. DoomCaptain Marvel presents The Terrible Five #1 (Aug. 1966) of the subversive organization B.I.R.D. (Bureau of International Revolutionary Devices) secretly performed on-campus mind control experiments which endangered Prof. Winkle's tentative relationship with the university president's daughter Linda Knowles. Colonel Cold was a bioterrorist who secretly hid capsules containing a deadly virus in ballpoint pens and distributed them throughout the city. Tarzac, the bald and green-gilled "King of the Sharks", rode a giant seahorse and protected a secret undersea fortress.Captain Marvel presents The Terrible Five vol. 2, #5 (Sept. 1967) Nuclear physicist turned metal-mouthed pirate Atom-Jaw could bite through solid steel.
