Adz

ADZ

Real Name: Adz

Class: Extraterrestrial (Xinian)

Occupation: Invader

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile, 2066 A.D.

First Appearance: Strange Adventures I #71(August, 1956)

Powers: Adz had a spaceship capable of intergalactic travel and impervious to nuclear attacks and had a fleet of Xinian ships under his command. The most powerful weapon in Adz' arsenal was a planet-selector / interplanetary clock which used a pointer to randomly choose a planet from the images of the solar system on it's surface. Once a planet was selected the clock dropped on that planet and set off a timed world-bomb that would destroy that planet.

History: (Strange Adventures I #71) - <2066> Adz decided to conquer Earth's solar system, and announced to the people of Earth that he would use the interplanetary clock to randomly select and destroy one of the planets in the solar system to demonstrate his power. The clock selected Earth, and Adz dropped it on the planet. Edward Murtree, who had received advice from scientists who projected their thoughts from the 1950s' to the year 2066, found a way to destroy the clock. He used advanced refrigeration methods to freeze the clock at absolute zero, making it brittle enough to destroy. With the destruction of his most powerful weapon Adz decided to call of the invasion and leave the solar system.

Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Sy Barry