In STAR SPANGLED KID #7, Jerry Siegel and Hal Sherman created what may have been the first crossover of previously established villains in comic books, teaming up two foes of the Star Spangled Kid: Doctor Weerd and The Needle. Possibly the book's editor put a bug in the ear of the raconteurs working on the same title's TARANTULA strip, for in SSK #8 Manly Wade Wellman and Hal Sharp produced a story entitled "The Trio of Terror." In it three previous one-shot foes of the "spider-man" came together for crime and revenge: the Crime Candle, who killed victims with poison candles, a western-themed fellow named Bardon, and a crime-boss called The Sting. Tarantula bests them all pretty easily, so that the Trio's only distinction may be if they're the second crossover of "repeat offenders."
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