The Frightful Four, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and many others were on my short list, but my final choices seemed more apt.

I graciously excluded Suicide Squad purely on the (rather frivolous) level that they were doing ‘good guy’ missions for the federal government.

Bananaman has some enemies, most notably General Blight, Doctor Gloom and Appleman. Thing is, any time his bad guys have teamed up, it’s been a very loose alliance; secondly, when they have teamed up, they haven’t utilised a team name. Anyway, here’s Blight, Gloom and Appleman:

I really regret not having posted the "Society to Assassinate Plastic Man And Live A Little" (SAPMALAL).

And yes that's real.

I mentioned most of my also-runs in my round-up posts. The big two I can think of that didn’t show up at all were Two-Face and The Joker in Brave & Bokd 128-129 and most every Bat villain ever (well, up to that point) in Batman #291-294, “Where Were You on the Night Batman was Killed?”

The Beagle Boys were on my list initially, but got so much love elsewhere I decided to give a little spotlight elsewhere. The two I thought about including but didn't because I didn't have time to properly track down the books and reread them to get the details right even though both team up stood out in my memory, was the titanic team up of villains against Zot! in Scott McCloud's black and white issues of Zot! and the scheming team up of a pair of the evil gods in the early issues of First Kingdom that ended up having one god exiled to earth to play the Satan role and another banished to the hell of the gods. One was the jealous sibling and the other the trickster, it was like having Loki split into two beings and team up for some scheming among the gods of Asgard all through Jack Katz'a quirky philosophy and views of mythology and human culture. But in the spirit of the nostalgia that informed my early picks, I decided to not dig out those books and stay with choices others might have a shot at relating to and enjoy rather than going obscure with stuff that I might be the only person who's wheelhouse it was in.

In the nostalgia phase, I wish I had thought of Salem's Seven, I really liked them as a kid and 185-186 were 2 of the very few issues of FF I had (and the only consecutive issues of that series I had)

-M

I wanted to include Crash and Burn, a one-shot duo that took on Batman, since I have a 4-page sequence of the original art depicting their origin, from Jim Aparo's final stint inking himself. The concept was a little too dark for this event, though.

The Thunderbolts were right on my initial list, since I enjoyed that book immensely, but I knew they'd be well covered, and I didn't feel like my praise would do the concept justice, since all the good stuff--and there was a lot beyond that memorable initial shock--would demand a re-read I didn't have time for.

In the exercise, I realized I don't have a lot of fondness for many of the Marvel villain teams. I'd completely forgotten the delightful Band of the Bland, so I'm glad Jeddak was here to remind us of them!

My initial list included the original Brotherhood of Evil, the Claremont/Byrne Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Monster Society of Evil, The Fearsome Five, and The Beagle Boys but all were bounced for other options. I also considered the pairings of Mentallo/Fixer, Mad Thinker/Puppet Master, Joker/Two-Face (from a B&B two parter), Red Ghost/Unicorn, Braniac/Clayface, Kraven/Vulture (the Blackie Drago version), Moonstone/Blackout, and the triple threat of Tiger Shark/Llyra/Dr. Dorcas. I wish I'd thought of Harley/Ivy, The Ghostly Trio, and Mr. Nice/Mastermind/The Perfessor.

Cei-U!
I summon the awrful also-rans!