The Time Commander

The Time Commander is a DC Silver Age villain whose mastery over time makes him a persistent temporal threat. He has allied with fellow time-obsessed rogues including Chronos and Clock King, carving out a niche as one of DC's most thematically focused time-manipulating criminals.

Silver Age villainy doesn't get much more deliciously themed than The Time Commander, who first ticked onto the scene in The Brave and the Bold #59 in 1965, conjured up by Jack Schiff and Sheldon Moldoff. A DC creation through and through, this temporal troublemaker has kept remarkably eclectic company over the decades — sharing pages with fellow time-obsessed rogues like Chronos, Clock King, and Calendar Man's alter ego Julian Day, making for some wonderfully clockwork-themed comic book mischief. With appearances stretching across The Brave and the Bold, Detective Comics, and Team Titans and a publishing history spanning an impressive sixty years, The Time Commander is a niche Silver Age gem — ten catalog appearances including one key issue — that rewards the dedicated DC historian hunting for the era's most distinctive and thematically committed villains.