(Daring Mystery Comics 008, 1941)
Hitler is going to show up more than a few times as you go through the history of comics, even if you set aside all the times he or a pastiche of him show up as the antagonist of a WWII comic you have reams of They Saved Hitler's Brain or I Recruited the Worst Men of History stories. This here is possibly the first of those and there's not a lot to it.
So: Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and a scientist named von Schalz, seeing the writing on the wall circa 1942, escaped by cryogenically freezing themselves until 3050 AD. Hitler being Hitler, he decides to make another attempt at world conquest. The story ends with von Schalz having hypnotized 3050's protector Captain Daring into leading their armies - presumably the comeuppance would have taken place in the next ish, but this was hampered somewhat by there being none. Hitler's destruction by Captain Daring has existed in potentia for 82 years and counting. Our only consolation must be that this Hitler's defeat in 1942 means that some of the excesses of the Holocaust must have been avoided.
(and of course Hitler is only a minor super-villain in the context of being in the future fighting space men)
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