Band of Super-Villains

The name adopted by a trio of ordinary criminals after a visiting alien from a far-distant planet has provided them with a set of special belts capable of endowing them with "amaz­ing powers," ostensibly because he wants to enable them to become wealthy super-criminals in return for their promise of future aid in establishing a dictator­ship on his native planet, but in reality because the belts, which release "an alien element" into the air, are part of a fiendish alien scheme to poison Earth's at­mosphere and annihilate its people in order to pave the way for an alien colonization. Batman, Robin, and Superman apprehend the Band of Super-Villains in June 1963, and the evil alien, finally cornered and defeated, blows himself and his spacecraft to smither­eens as the self-imposed penalty for the failure of his mission.