FASCIST GOON CLEARING HOUSE 003

More goons. Fascist goons? Yes.

The Anti-American Party operated in the South American country of Santa Palos, home of the Red Gaucho, and got up to a lot of malarky at a fancy dress ball. Crucially, they disguised one of their agents as the Red Gaucho, leading to a lot of mixups between the agent, the Gaucho and a clueless dope who also came dressed as the hero (Nickel Comics 006, 1940)

The Black Guard, agents of the Germany-analog country of Nordicha operating in neighbouring oil-rich country Ruina and foiled by Secret Agent X-5 (later G-5) (Hit Comics 002, 1940)

Now that I'm revisiting them I reckon that the Green Gloves should have been a regular entry but it's too late now. In contrast to all of the other fascist groups represented here so far, the Green Gloves are devoted to a guy amazingly named Glover Green with no allegiance to any foreign power. Green seems to be your garden variety megalomaniac with a real glove fixation, down to traitors to the group getting a green glove brand on their foreheads (Detective Comics v1 045, 1940)

The Nastonian-American Society is just another German-American Bund analog (Adventure Comics 051, 1940)

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 025: THE MASTER

(Detective v1 030, 1939)

I like the Master because he is simultaneously brilliant enough to invent a mind control device capable of enslaving a significant portion of the US Government and dumb enough to brag about his machine to a federal agent not ten feet away from it. Machine smashing ensues.

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 023: MOBRUNE

(Adventure 041, 1939)

A fanatic radio preacher of no specific religion, Mobrune bolsters his reputation by predicting disasters that he then causes. SPECIFICALLY, Mobrune seeds snow clouds with nerve toxin, completely wiping two small cities off the map. A bad dude!

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 009: THE COBRA

(New Adventure 027, 1938)

 Just a kidnapper, but there's something about a man who wears a snake, and he's yet another Siegel and Shuster villain from a pre-Superman series - in this case, Federal Men, about Steve Carson of the FBI.