During the climax of their epic battles versus a trio of freezing felons with their mysterious master, and an immortal villain with his bearded and balding henchmen, the Justice League and Justice Society encountered an odd climax to these confrontations.
On Earth-One, the Justice League battled the cold criminals of Minister Blizzard, Captain Cold and the Icicle of Earth-Two. who were entralling the South American country of Ecuador in a deep freeze (decades earlier on his home world, the Icicle tried a similar conquest of the South American country of Perumbia). When the League tracked the terrible trio back to the United States, This was a diversionary tactic to lead the heroes away, so the villains could steal the Minerva Diamond and and Star of Calcutta in Gotham City. After overpowering Bizzard, Cold and Icicle, the League discovered their secret leader was Shadow-Thief...whose Dimensiometer which transforms his body into a living shadow causes the climate to turn cold.
On Earth-Two, the Justice Society journeyed back to the age of Camelot to confront immortal villains Vandal Savage, who manipulated the bearded Merlin into helping him capture Superman and Power Girl. Then, Savage along with his captives journeyed to the planet of Colu-Two, pursued by the Society who thwarted Vandal's scheme of siphoning the powers of the Kryptonians into his own body with the aid of his bald scientific henchman. As he fled the scene, he was grabbed by two sinister shadows who aided him in his escape. These were two old adversaries of the Justice Society's Doctor Fate: Ian Karkull, himself a human shade like his counterpart Shadow-Thief, and Mister Fortune aka Landon the Unknown. Ian and Lando teamed up, apparently seeing Vandal's immortal abilities as key to Ian's scheme in 1941 of stealing life force from others in order to empower him in assassinating future presidents of the United States.
Only thanks to the timely intervention of the Phantom Stranger, with his own shade-based abilities, was Shadow-Thief captured along with his colleagues. Karkull’s plan was ultimately thwarted by the Justice Society, even with the aid of his cadres of costumes criminals
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