(Adventure 061, 1941)
Ivan Borloff is a strange combination of things: a scientist with a super airship (the Cylindecraft) and a metal-destroying ray, he rains destruction down on New York City in pursuit of his goal of conquering the US (and by implication, the world), but also, it's implied that he is affiliated with *foreign powers*, ie, fascists - possibly ones who didn't quite know what they were getting into.
His name ringing more Russian might mean that he is a rare pre-Cold War Commie villain, but a more likely explanation is plain old lazy naming - German, Russian... it's all basically the same, right?
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