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.
Jeff Smith, of Bone fame, did a storyline titled Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil in 2007, although its links to the original are all but non-existent.
Tropes:
- Always Night: One of Mr. Mind's more ambitious plans was to stop the rotation of the Earth so it would always be night in America and always day in Germany.
- Amoral Attorney: 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 Even Evil Has Standards.
- Antagonist Title: The story arc is named after the army of villains recruited by Mister Mind.
- Bat Out of Hell: Jeepers, although when first introduced he looked more like a humanoid mouse. Subsequent incarnations became more bat-like.
- Beast Man: Most of the Society's members were Crocodile-Men from outer space. There's also Jeepers and Goat-Man.
- Big Bad: Mister Mind.
- Bound and Gagged: Happens frequently to Billy Batson, often at the end of chapters, preventing him from saying his magic word.
- Brains Versus Brawn: What the whole storyline boils down to, with it being about the grand feud between the brilliant but vulnerable caterpillar Mr. Mind, and the invincible demigod Captain Marvel.
- Cliffhanger Copout:
- 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.
- 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, gloating that Marvel wrecked the press before it could crush him, giving him a chance to escape.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: 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.
- Hydra Problem: Whenever the Monster Society's Hydra loses a head, it grows it back with that of another animal. Captain Marvel causes its heads to fight over meat, killing itself.
- Lady in Red: Nyole, one of the few females of the group, is an aztec priestess who dresses in red.
- Last of His Kind: Jeepers, the bat-man, whose people all died in some unspecified disaster.
- Legion of Doom: 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, and thereafter the storyline focuses on Mr. Mind and never-before-seen villains working for him).
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: The Crocodile-Men. The Crocodile-Man introduced in Shazam (2019) has three heads, and is far more monstrous than previous versions.
- Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: Inverted in the chapters about the Society taking over a movie shoot. For some reason none of the Mooks brought their own weapons (for all the good they would've done) and instead armed themselves from the set itself. Thinking that a Hollywood studio would have real medieval bludgeoning weapons for some reason, there are several villains who are very disappointed before also getting a sock on the jaw from Marvel.
- Our Hydras Are Different: The Society has a literal Hydra created by Mister Mind, which, when it loses a head, grows it back with the head of another animal. Created by complete accident, at that!
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Near the beginning of the storyline, members of the Axis Powers are depicted belonging to Mr. Mind's "evil legions". As World War II ground to its conclusion, more and more the Monster Society's ranks were shown consisting of aliens and gangsters instead.
- Run the Gauntlet: In one of the earlier examples of this as a sustained narrative in comics, Captain Marvel is forced to contend with Captain Nazi, Ibac, Nippo the Nipponese, and Doctor Sivana in the first four chapters, before Mind himself is revealed and becomes the principal heavy of the series.Captain Marvel: Ibac! Holy moley! Now I've got to chase him down! What is this, a relay race?
- The Starscream: Subverted, with Herkimer the Crocodile-Man. He only takes over Leadership of the Society after Mister Mind gets Laser-Guided Amnesia and becomes good. Once he regains his memory Herkimer gives back control.
- Story-Breaker Power: The magical scrying pearls, which let their user see anything, anywhere, even into other galaxies. After Captain Marvel gets them back from the villains, they disappear without explanation between chapters.
- Suspect Is Hatless: Once Billy learns of Mr. Mind's true nature, he broadcasts that the diabolical villain plaguing the Earth is "a worm just a few inches long", but not that Mind wears glasses (as he mentions later), that he can talk, or even that he's green. The WHIZ building is soon flooded with well-meaning false leads as people report finding worms in their backyard.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Given how superhero comics doubled as wartime propaganda, the depiction of Nazis and Hitler himself is quite... whimsical.
- Thrifty Scot: 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. One man almost captures a general fleeing with Mr. Mind, but stops to pick up the money that flies out of the general's torn wallet (which he later realizes, being Nazi German currency, is worthless).
- Token Robot: Mr. Atom is the only robot in a team of monsters and humans.
- Yellow Peril: The comic's depiction of enemy Japanese forces showed them all as big-toothed subhuman freaks.
- Your Costume Needs Work: In one chapter, Captain Marvel secretly takes over for an inhuman actor playing the part in Mr. Mind's anti-Marvel propaganda film, and beats up Mind's entire crew of Crocodile Men for real during a fight scene. Mind calls his performance "rotten" and snidely comments that he's "a ham".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: If they weren't specifically killed on-page, most of the group's named members tended to just disappear into thin air after the chapter focusing on them was over.
