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Rigas, Dr. Dr. Rigas was created by George Waggner and Harry Essex and appeared in the film Man-Made Monster (1941).

Dr. Rigas is a Mad Scientist. After a train accident in which all but one person is electrocuted, and that one person, a gangster, is left immune to electricity, Dr. Rigas persuades the gangster to submit to experiments which leave the gangster Superhuman glowing and capable of generating lethal shocks. And also under Rigas’ complete control. Murders follow.

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