(Keen Detective Funnies v2 021, 1940)
A simple but effective origin story: The captain of a German Mergan submarine becomes obsessed with death and destruction and goes rogue, preying on Axis and Allied shipping alike and replacing the flag of Nazi Germany Zani Mergany* with the skull and crossbones. Suddenly, the threat of war is a threat to all seagoing vessels!
The Red Raider (technically the name of the submarine but I stand firm in my conviction that the name of a super-vehicle can logically be applied to its owner if they have no codename of their own) has a relatively short reign of terror before he is socked in the jaw by the Masked Marvel and hot damn is "So, you think you can machine gun the Masked Marvel?" a cool toughguy line to say just before taking down the villain and his whole operation.
*okay I made up Zani but the rest is real
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