The
Crime Syndicate are teams of fictional
supervillains from one of
DC Comics'
parallel universes, who are the
evil counterparts of the
Justice League of America. The original team was specifically known as
Crime Syndicate of America and is sometimes abbreviated as
CSA. This first superpowered Crime Syndicate team appeared in
Justice League of America (vol. 1) #29 in August 1964. The primary successive incarnation, known as the
Crime Syndicate of Amerika (with the variant spelling of America), first appeared in the 2000
JLA: Earth 2 graphic novel.