Ah, the Good Old Days

Gotta love those old comic books.
Books where the artists were under paid and in a real big hurry.
And the writers were just bat-shit crazy.
Check this out:

"There was one savant who was consumed with the desire to know that secret which the world considered unknowable...and in his own laboratory he nurtured what was to become his master!"

Wow!  That is some purple prose!
What editorial force made him write that?