Baron Schluss (Earth-616)

Baron Schluss

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Real Name

Schluss (First name unknown)

Current Alias

Baron Schluss

Affiliation

Nazis

Status

Identity

No Dual Identity

Citizenship

German

Occupation

Spy

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Hair

Brown

Origin

Human

First Appearance	Appearance of Death
Sub-Mariner Comics #13 (Spring, 1944)	Sub-Mariner Comics #13 (Spring, 1944)

History

Baron Schluss was a spy for the Nazis during World War II. By the spring of 1944 he had relocated to the United States and set up operations with a group of spies that worked out of a New York aquarium that overlooked the harbor. He and his minions planned to smuggle explosives from a U-Boat out at sea into the aquarium to eventually be used in acts of sabotage.

Unfortunately for them, their plot was foiled when the Sub-Mariner took at nap in one of the aquariums fish tanks after being stood up on a date by Betty Dean. When Namor awoke, he overheard the plot and confronted the spies. An attempt by Schluss and his men to destroy Namor by using a squid and a tank full of sharks failed, but slowed the hero down enough to allow them to head toward the U-Boat by motorboat. The Sub-Mariner caught up to them and caused their boat to crash into a buoy, killing all aboard in an explosion. Namor then destroyed the enemy sub, putting an end to the sabotage plot before it could begin.^[1]