History ComicBook / TheMonsterSocietyOfEvil

The longest serial of the GoldenAge of Comics, running from ''[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] Adventures'' #22 to #46 and depicting Captain Marvel's ongoing battle with the villainous Mister Mind and his army of criminals and monsters, including the bulk of Marvel's RoguesGallery. Features one of the earliest examples of a LegionOfDoom, though was possibly meant as a metaphor for Nazis (Nazi Germany were shown as supporters for the villain group as well).

There were a few abortive attempts to reestablish the organization before the ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' continuity merge, and the only one that came anywhere close to recapturing the Society's original glory appeared in an ongoing story from ''World's Finest'' 264-267, made up of most of Captain Marvel's most powerful enemies.

* AmoralAttorney: This is subverted in the last chapter as Mister Mind is being tried, his lawyer, who he knows to be a slick Amoral Attorney, hears of Mister Mind's crimes and tells Mister Mind he hopes he gets the electric chair, showing EvenEvilHasStandards.

** Chapter 20 ends with Mr. Mind trapped on the conveyor belt of a printing press as Captain Marvel is destroying his propaganda mill. Chapter 21 begins with Mr. Mind safe and sound in a laboratory elsewhere, [[TakeOurWordForIt gloating that Marvel wrecked the press before it could crush him, giving him a chance to escape]].

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The Crocodile-Men. The Crocodile-Man introduced in ''Shazam (2019)'' has three heads, and is far more monstrous than previous versions.

* AlwaysNight: One of Mr. Mind's more ambitious plans was to stop the rotation of the Earth so it would always be night in American and always day in Germany.

* BoundAndGagged: Happens frequently to Billy Batson, often at the end of serials, preventing him from saying his magic word.

* LegionOfDoom: As noted, it was one of the first, but not ''the'' first, comic book storylines to feature pre-existing villains banding together to deal with a common enemy (even though the previously-run villains are all used up by the end of the fourth chapter).

* CliffhangerCopout: After Captain Marvel spends a large portion of one serial trying to stop a giant shell fired from space striking Russia, it turns out it was a dud and only damages the building it actually lands on.

* ThriftyScot: When Mr. Mind organizes a secret Nazi invasion of Scotland, Captain Marvel has to convince the locals that they won't have to spend any money helping him fight off the Germans before they'll do anything.

* LegionOfDoom: As noted, it was one of the first, but not ''the'' first, comic book storylines to feature preexisting villains banding together to deal with a common enemy (even though the previously-run villains are all used up by the end of the fourth chapter).

Jeff Smith, of ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' fame, did a storyline titled ''Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil'' in 2007, although its links to the original are tenuous.

!!Tropes made by:

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Possibly the oldest comic book example, where it nearly happens a couple of times. Mister Mind tries firing giant shells at America and Russia from a ten-mile Big Bertha, then in another chapter he tries to blow the Earth in half using explosives set up by tiny Americans living underground in case the war went badly for America.

* ThoseWackyNazis: And how, given how superhero comics doubled as wartime propaganda, the depiction of Nazis and Hitler himself is quite... [[AdolfHitlarious whimsical]].