(Big Shot Comics 016, 1941)
The Cobra technically works for the Chief if you want to exclusively go by the criminal org chart, but the Cobra is also the only reason for the Chief being mentioned at all and not just thrown into my big bin of nondescript gang bosses. Thus: a dual entry.
Like I said, the Chief is your regular degular gang boss, albeit one who swans around in a green smoking jacket the whole time. Feeling the pinch as the Face cracks down on crime, he hires the Cobra, a rare super-powered Columbia Comics Corporation character. It's not much - she can do comic book hypnotism that causes her target to see what she wants and also scry her hypnotized target using a crystal ball - but it's more than most of her criminal peers have.
The Chief and the Cobra essentially prank the Face's secret identity Tony Trent by making him think that a man and then an entire house have disappeared, with the idea being that Trent, who at this point "knows" the Face in the same way Clark Kent knows Superman, will bring him in to investigate. And it works, only instead of being easily killed the Face does his regular schtick and beats everyone up. It's your classic villain's 2/3 of a plan - no consideration for how to deal with their foe, only how to draw them out.
The Chief and the Cobra are pretty swiftly rounded up. Is hypnotizing a guy not to see a house and then looking at him in a crystal ball a crime? If not I assume that the Cobra was released pretty swiftly. I mean, she did try to shoot the Face at the end of the story but good luck ever convicting someone of attempted murder of a masked vigilante, amiright?
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