There has been a long held belief that the pre-Crisis Earth-Three had only six costumed crusaders and/or criminals.. the five Crime Syndicate members known as Ultraman, Superwoman, Owlman, Johnny Quick and Power Rig as well as their arch-foe Alex Luthor. And that would be correct. However, there were other metahumans who menaced that world's population, albeit only briefly.
During his brief freedom from their limbo dimension prison, the Syndicator Power Ring's power battery infected various humans with a radiation plague granting them incredible power. Only the timely intervention and treatment administered by Earth-One's Captain Comet* saved this planet from further chaos at the hands of malevolent malcontents!
Curiously, while the infected power battery gifted him by his former master Volthoom was removed by Comet from Earth-Three, lingering affects remained within Power Ring's... power ring! This is evident when the time traveling tyrant known as Per Degaton of Earth-Two recruited the Crime Syndicate, bringing them to Earth-Prime in 1962 to abscond with intercontinental ballistic missiles from Cuba. While the resulting Cuban Missile Crisis played out differently than in normal history, with most of Earth-Prime left devastated, those few exposed to radiation from Power Ring's ring caused a similar superhuman mutation. With the intervention of the Justice Society, Justice League and All-Star Squadron, the heroes were able to change history back to normal, resulting in these mutants no longer existing in the restored timeline.
Back on Earth-Three, it was thought that Captain Comet reversed the mutation process on those effect in Metropolis using the radioactive power battery, although given the sheer number of those affected this seems unlikely. What became of these creatures is unknown, although they as with all humanity in that universe found an untimely end during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
* Oh, and that woman in the first panel is Earth-Three's Lois Lane, who would quickly become smitten with her globe's first record superhero, the Captain himself. It would be his inspiration that led to the creation of that Earth's first native-born champion of justice, Alex Luthor, in a few years.
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