(Champion Comics 009, 1940)
Nad Neurod is a gang boss with an ambitious and not-uncommon-in-comics scheme: knock out the power and other utilities so that you can take advantage of the resultant confusion and loot an entire city (NYC in this case) at once! Even more importantly, he and his gang provide the perfect test/demonstration of the Human Meteor's powers in his first foray into the outside world.
(Nad Neurod is also exactly the kind of moniker that makes my Backward Name Senses tingle, but I'll be danged if I can find any evidence of anyone named Dan Doruen existing ever, let alone in 1940. I'd put money on it being a reference to something, but sadly I must place it on the big Pile of Unsolvable Puzzles and move on with my life)
Neurod and his cronies have a particular role to play, and that is to be a reasonably credible threat that a super-hero can thrash on their first outing, and they serve their purpose admirably - they completely flummox the authorities of New York City (probably) and are themselves flummoxed (and mostly killed) by the Human Meteor.
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