Whiz Comics #128 (1950)

“Mastermind Mike,” the new kingpin of the underworld is addressing his criminal version of the UN, the United Criminals. He tells them they'll all make history and promote crime and outlawing the law. Their first motion is a vote on Crime Coup No. 1: stealing a battleship to sell for scrap metal. One goon vetoes this, holding up the anti-democratic process, until an eyepatch-sporting goon slugs him with a blackjack and they accept this as the ayes having it. Later, Billy Batson is reporting from Station WHIZ that a battleship has gone missing off the coast of the small maritime nation of “Libania” while most of the crew was on shore leave. Once he finishes his process, she calls SHAZAM to summon Captain Marvel to head to Libania. Thereof, he finds the military has little more than a bearing and finds a shiver of sharks, meaning that the battleship has come through there. He soon discovers Mastermind Mike aboard the ship and they quickly discover that even artillery shells fired from a battleship yield predictable results. Mastermind Mike manages to escape to his mustard yellow jet helicopter, which Captain Marvel loses track of in a dense fog. He soon returns to Libania with some of the United Criminals in tow and he tries to get them to talk from behind bars. The Sole Dissenter from the UC spills the tea on how the UC plan on robbing transoceanic planes, raid the Maharajah's Jewel Cave and counterfeit all forms of currency. He goes to stop them and hears a shot, finding that the Sole Dissenter is dead, shot by a goon in an adjacent cell with a tiny secret gun hidden in his sleeve. Captain Marvel punches him against a wall, knocking him out and leaves. The next day, a transoceanic airliner carrying 80 passengers and a freight of jewels soon has the jet helicopter landing on top of it for the UC to move in. Captain Marvel flies in quickly and punches out most of the goons, but Mike pitches the jewels out of a window, forcing Captain Marvel to go after it. Once again, due to heavy cloud cover, the United Criminals escape. To try to lure them out, he finds a nearby iceberg in a strangely tropical area of the ocean and finds that it's made of plastic and is likely their secret HQ. To get in, he calls SHAZAM to return Billy, who pretends he's been shipwrecked and starts shouting for help. A goon comes out from a secret door, but immediately brains Billy with a blackjack and he wakes up bound to a chair and gagged. Mastermind Mike decides to take a motion and the United Criminals order Billy to death for “treason” against crime. They remove his gag to hear his last words and he calls SHAZAM for Captain Marvel to punch the goons over, topple a UC flag on them and then drags the whole fake iceberg to somewhere they can be arrested.