Carl Bland

A prominent Metropolis lawyer and secret Nazi agent who is director of the Izan Athletic Club, a front for Nazi activity. After successfully proposing to city officials that the young men in his Izan Athletic club be allowed to pose as Nazi soldiers and stage a mock invasion of Metropolis – complete with prearranged mock “atrocities” – for the purpose of alerting the populace to the perils of Fascism, Bland and his cohorts launch a real invasion of the city – including such real-life atrocities as attempts to execute city officials, poison the water supply, and destroy the municipal electric power plant – until they are finally apprehended by Superman in September-October 1942 (S No.18/1: “The Conquest of a City”).