Spiros Lasser

Spiros Lasser was yet another millionaire that Marco Xavier was friendly with and profited from. While the Manhunter from Mars was operating under the identity of the seemingly deceased Xavier, he used that preexisting connection to Lasser as bait to trap the wily Professor Arnold Hugo when he briefly escaped imprisonment. Hugo was working an extortion scheme where he would irradiate the wealthy to a potentially fatal degree, then demand a ransom to decontaminate them before they succumbed. The Marco Xavier impersonator set up the scheme on Lasser's yacht, but then shapeshifted into Lasser to become irradiated. The false Lasser then followed Hugo's instructions, paid the ransom, was decontaminated, and then captured Hugo and his gang as the Manhunter. Spiros Lasser appeared in House of Mystery #165 (March, 1967)