Category:Bug-Eyed Bandit

An amateur inventor, Bertram Larvan designed a mechanical insect that could help the insect, bird, and animal life that prey on man. Larvan was convinced that this would make him his fortune. Unfortunately, without financial backing, Larvan could not build a working model of his robot insect, and without a working model no one would give him financial backing. Repeatedly rejected and growing ever more bitter against society as time passed, Bertram Larvan decided to break the vicious cycle by stealing the money he needed for his invention. Larvan used the robot insect he built with money from his first robbery to steal more money, until he had built himself a veritable army of robot insects, beginning a crime wave which brought him into battle with Ray Palmer, the Atom. (1)