Time Travelling Tyrants Terrorize Tiny Titans

Time is fluid and constant, ever present and a fourth dimension necessary to move reality along from moment to moment. In this modern age, it was only a matter of...time... before villains would learn how to harness this power and bend it to their wicked will. Such were men named Clinton and Kale.

David Clinton decided to synchronize his thefts in such a manner so as to escape the law, using time-based gimmicks in his escapades. Unfortunately for him, he started his crime spree in the small college burg of Ivy Town, the home of his future arch-enemy. The local superhero, the Atom, was the costumed alias of Professor Ray Palmer who discovered the ability to shrink and control his weight. The Atom proved to have better timing than Clinton's alter ego of Chronos defeating time and again, despite the various devices which the villian created. Among these were exploding hourglasses, wristwatch weapons that projected razor sharp minute and hour hands, and a flying sundial. Eventually, Chronos learned to control time itself, slowing it down and traveling through various historical periods.

The time thief eventually joined various criminal organizations with fellow masked marauders. The first of these was the Crime Champions of twin Earths, when he met Atom's Justice League as well as the Justice Society and its Atom of Earth-Two.

And it was the Justice Society which first quarreled with the time traveling villain Per Degaton and his chief henchman Kale Zercoff. Kale like Clinton was a bald felon with a knack for joining gangs. In Kale's case it was a gang of thugs dressed like Degaton whom Kale recruited for Per's illegal enterprise as chief henchmen. 

It seems that Degaton had heard of Zercoff from the crook's former career as a saboteur, working for a foreign government. On that occasion, Zercoff and a confederate attempted to damage a steel mill which young college student Al Pratt happened to be visiting. As the Atom, Pratt overpowered Zercoff, who seemingly perished.

Chronos had also joined a gang, known as the Injustice Gang of the World, which battled the Justice League of three separate occasions. Each time, Clinton and his cronies were manipulated by master villains who had their own diabolical agendas, that each failed in the end.

Kale Zercoff ended up alive and well, and followed his boss Degaton to ancient Greece, with the goal of changing history. And the first Justice Society member that Kale traded blows with? The Atom, renewing their conflict from years earlier. Despite scoring a temporary victory, Per and Kale met bitter defeat when Atom and his allies restored history to normal, erasing their altered timeline.

Kale would return at least twice more, once aiding Degaton against the Society and their League counterparts, and during the Crisis assisting the Ultra-Humanite in the modern-day who was attempting to steal a space shuttle for his own sinister ends. Degaton would himself join the Injustice Society of the World with several henchmen, of whom Kale was possibly among them during their initial clash with the Justice Society.

While Kale never reached the legendary status of Chronos, both were tied with time... running out of it during their failed criminal chrono-careers.