Malevolent Mental Manipulators Menace Men

Psychiatrist Steve Dayton was among the richest men on Earth-One. A professional psychiatrist and highly skilled inventor, his passion was actress Rita Farr, aka Elasti-Girl. However, an area of friction between Steve and Rita was her desire to adopt the orphan Garfield Logan, although he eventually agreed that this. In order to secure her attention and affection, as she had been recruited into the crime-fighting team known as the Doom Patrol of Midway City, Dayton became a part time costumed crusader named Mento.

Harry Sims as district attorney of Gotham City sought to remove from his hometown all superheroes whose vigilante actions caused his own authority to be in disrepute. Coerced behind the scenes by the Flash's old foe, the Thinker, Sims learned the folly of his partnership with the criminal when he discovered that the Huntress' alter ego was his colleague Helena Wayne.

As Mento, Dayton utilized the awesome energies of his mind amplified by his specially designed helmet to become Midway's other resident hero, after the Patrol as well as the Winged Warriors, Earth-One's Hawkman and Hawkgirl, whom he never had occasion to meet. Eventually, Dayton wed the object of his affection, yet sadly shortly thereafter Rita and her teammates perished protecting a small community. Steve would revive his Mento alter ego in order to hunt down the villains who killed his wife, and briefly turned insane before his step-son Garfield aka the Changeling helped him recover his senses.

Seeing Sims as a liability, the Thinker mentally induced the D.A. with a heart attack and assumed his identity to legally carry out his agenda. As a former district attorney in his Cliff Devoe identity decades previous, the Thinker could call upon such training in this field to achieve his ends. Meanwhile, the Thinker mentally controlled Power Girl and sent her against her best friend, leaving Huntress to deflate the criminal's plans by destroying his powerful helmet. And Sims fell in love with his dual-identity daring damsel.

Both Dayton and Sims were accomplished professionals in their respective fields of endeavor, and both likewise pursued the law vigorously. Nevertheless, the tragedy with both Steve and Harry is that the women they loved, Rita and Helena, was stymied both heroines' costumed careers which placed a barrier between the two couples and the happily ever after the men had envisioned for they and their lady loves.