The Black Hood vs. Needlenoodle

Yes, I said "Needlenoodle," and I'm not making it up.  That was the villian's name in this 1946 Black Hood comic posted by Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine.  Such a name could be a disadvantage in a brawl.  "Look out Needlenoo- . . . .  Oops!  Too late."  The Black Hood started as a masked vigilante character, but became more of a detective hero.  Pappy has some interesting insights into the transformation.   

A lot of comic book costumed heroes weren't selling after World War II, and the comic book industry was changing. The company known as MLJ Comics became Archie Comics, and replaced its original MLJ logo with the Archie Comics colophon on issue #17.* It could be that MLJ/Archie was trying to save the Black Hood comic by dropping the costume, and perhaps introducing villains that wouldn't be out of place in the Dick Tracy comic strip.