 Villainy Inc. debuted in "Wonder Woman" (Vol.1) #28, in the last story written by series creator William Moulton Marston.The villains, who were individually sentenced to prison on the Amazon penal colony Transformation Island and later escaped, teamed up to take down their common enemy; led by the Saturnian slaver Eviless, who had tricked the Amazons into believing she had lost her evil nature by manipulating the lock on a magic girdle, and stole Wonder Woman's lasso.