(All-Star Comics 004, 1941)
What makes them a super-villain? Sheer scale! The Leader AKA Fritz Klaver is the top spy for the "dictator nations" in America, commanding units of his subversive Grey-Shirts as well as other less blatant agents in numbers estimated at 30 000. They come real close to saying he's a Nazi, too, but it's about a year out from comics folks being willing to actually do that.
What makes them interesting? The real deal interesting thing about the Leader is that he's the first foe that the Justice Society tackle as a group, establishing the split-up-to-take-on-all-of-the-minions-before-coming-together-to-fight-the-overboss paradigm that would rule team super-hero books for decades to come. Other than that he's your typical fascist spy chief.
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