(Adventure 069, 1941)
An early example of quite a few villain tropes, the Red Dragon is a guy who turns to evil because he was rejected by society due to his deformed face (1). He then decides to set himself up in opposition to the heroic Shining Knight, choosing to become the Red Dragon - less dramatic than a Bizarro-style evil opposite situation but still an evil opposite situation (2).
After his first (unsuccessful) foray into crime, he is recruited by the Hand to battle the Seven Soldiers of Victory as part of one of the earliest examples of a super-villain team-up (3), some years before the Injustice Society and such became commonplace.
Pretty good for a fairly ordinary hooded villain.
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