Real name: Kanjar Ro
First appearance: Justice League of America I#3 (Feb./Mar. 1961)
Abilities: Access to alien weapons
Worst act: Enslaving planets, kidnapping
Quote: "There! Now that none of you can move a muscle, I can speak to you without your indulging in any heroics...!"
Created by: Gardner F. Fox (script), Mike Sekowsky (pencils), Bernard Sachs (inks)
Another alien dictator, but this one is also combined with the 'paring the heroes up and sending them to different locations' trope. Ro wants his rivals taken care of, so he paralyses the entire Earth. The heroes are split up and easily take down the other rulers.
Ro smugly tries to back out of the deal, pointing out that only his former rivals saying his name at the same time would free the Earth.
Good thing the JLA made recordings of them saying just that, eh?
Kanjar Ro would return in a sequel to this yarn in Mystery in Space I#75, in which he tangles with Adam Strange but he never really reached those levels again.
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