In reality one of many continuing sagas in the Silver Age Superman used to be the Anti-Superman Gang. In reality that is maybe overstating things comparatively; in fact they were genuine a handy order point for Weisinger and his writers.
The Anti-Superman Gang first regarded (as far as I’m able to recount) in Jimmy Olsen #39, and in that story they’re one thing of a sidelight to the major order. See, Jimmy is so smitten by ensuring that he does now not lose his signal gape that he hides it someplace while sleepwalking, can’t gather it the next day, and wears a spare wristwatch. Keep in mind that, he ends up having to signal Superman that day diverse times, and at any time when he has to give you a ingenious strategy of doing so. Not now not up to twice the Anti-Superman Gang tries to rob the (depraved) gape, and in the climax, Jimmy spots the chief of the team, Ace Manton, improbably hiding out at a pressure-in movie theater. Oh, and Jimmy finds his wristwatch hidden round his ankle.
The crowd it sounds as if didn;t quit after that, as they popped up in Lois Lane #13 just a few months later. Lois is carrying a blonde wig to be in a position to receive a photograph of a superstar and his recent bride, when two members of the team device her. Hiya, other than that blonde hair, she’s a dumb ringer for Lois Lane and we can spend her to receive Superman.
Their subsequent appearance used to be in Motion #261. Two traffic to the Fortress of Solitude (which has been transported to Metropolis as an entice elevate funds for charity) are members of the team planning to explode Superman’s HQ. The order is foiled in a on the full convoluted type. See, the Kandorians had been searching to radio Superman to warn him (they were in lethal risk themselves). But a jewel in the fortress used to be interfering with the radio indicators. Happily, the crooks had introduced one portion of the bomb in a lead-lined container (so Superman would possibly maybe well now not look what used to be basically internal) and when one in all the crooks discarded the container it very simply lined the jewel so the radio waves would possibly maybe well also receive to Superman.
They fight their success in opposition to the Fortress of Solitude again in Lois Lane #21. The order again is absurdly convoluted. An inventor comes up with a Lois Lane doll (maybe impressed by the Barbie phenomenon) that sells adore hotcakes. For the ten,000th doll, the inventor plans to carry out a life-sized Lois doll which is able to possess a nuclear bomb. See, the inventor is a member of the Anti-Superman Gang, and he wisely causes that Lois will give the doll to Superman for his memento series on the Fortress. I would possibly maybe well also snort what goes depraved, however it’s primary extra convoluted. We present out receive to be taught the team’s motto:
The crowd returns in Motion #276. A well off philanthropist is death and he summons Clark Kent to his deathbed. He’s a huge admirer of Superman and believes that Clark is secretly the Man of Steel. After checking the person’s pulse (primitive), Clark figures what the heck and divulges that he’s certainly Superman, doing just a few tremendous-feats to set it convincingly. A couple of moments later, the ragged man passes away. But… it appears to be like that evidently the well off philanthropist is secretly the head of the Anti-Superman gang, and had been inhaled a drug that swiftly precipitated him to appear to be death, On the replacement hand, the doctor who had given him the drug warned that it can maybe well also cause hallucinations, and becoming responsive to the hoax, Superman gadgets up an account for thought to convince the team boss that Clark’s revelation used to be in fact a side enact of the drug.
There were replacement extra appearances of the Anti-Superman Gang–Superman #145 and #152, Jimmy Olsen #75, etc. In Lois Lane #60 we realized the team had a standing bounty out on Supes and his pals:
Jimmy handiest value half of as primary as Lois? But that is truly a upward push over the amount offered a couple months earlier in Jimmy Olsen #85:
In Jimmy Olsen #87, we realized that the Anti-Superman Gang integrated some of his extra notorious foes:
But other than that story, the A-S G is made up of traditional crooks.