Felix Faust

FELIX FAUST

Real Name: Felix Faust

Class: Human magic-user

Occupation: Sorcerer, supervillain

Group Affiliation: Secret Society of Super-Villains

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Justice League of America I #10 (March, 1962)

Powers: Faust was a well trained sorcerer.

History:

(Swamp Thing VI #3) - Matt Cable was scouring the world to find a way to strip Alec Holland of the Swamp Thing's powers, and he contacted Felix Faust to locate a mystic item that would do the trick.

Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Mike Sekowsky.

FELIX FAUST (pre-Flashpoint)

Real Name: Felix Faust

Class: Human magic-user

Occupation: Sorcerer, supervillain

Group Affiliation: The Society, formerly Injustice League, Secret Society of Super-Villains

Known Relatives: Fauna (daughter, deceased), Sebastian Faust (son), unnamed wife

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Justice League of America I #10 (March, 1962)

Powers: Faust was a well trained sorcerer, nut he usually needed magic tomes to cast his spells. His specialty was spells affecting organic matter.

History: <5000 B.C.> Faust battled the sorcerer-king Nommo of Kor in an attempt to steal Kor's mystical Flame of Life. Nommo absorbed the Flame to keep Faust from getting it and banished Faust to another dimension.

<1920s'> Magician Dekan Drache opened a portal to Faust's dimension, and Faust seized this opportunity to return to Earth, taking over Dekan's body after obliterating the man's soul. Faust found his spell-casting abilities diminished in his new body and spent decades relearning the art of magic, although it failed to make him anywhere near as powerful as he used to be.

Faust summoned the Demons Three in another grab for mystic power. This brought the attention of the JLA, who defeated both Faust ad the Demons. Faust went on to battle the JLA on numerous occasions.

(Identity Crisis #3 (fb)) - Felix Faust and the Secret Society switched bodies with the JLA. They took time to document the JLA’s secret identities. After being defeated the JLA erased their memories with Zatanna’s help.

(Flash III #162) - Felix Faust created a demonic simulacrum of Ken Blackwell that gave a speech at the American Broadcasters Expo and implanted a post-hypnotic suggestion in the audience. When anyone said "6:57" the hypnotic suggestion was activated and they incanted a spell that would turn America back in time to the dark ages, where Faust and magic would rule supreme. Felix chose 6:57 because that was when the new Golden Spike Network was scheduled to go on air, and when the announcers announced the time the nation would incant the spell, turning America back in time to the Dark Ages, where Faust and magic would rule supreme. Flash and Captain Marvel figured out his scheme, taking Spike off-air to foil Faust, and then apprehending the villain. Faust bemoaned that his way-back spell would not work again for another 360 years.

(JLA #115-119) - Despero restored the memories of former Secret Society of Super-Villains members Wizard, Chronos, Felix Faust, Floronic Man, Matter Master and Star Sapphire, who’d been mind-wiped years ago by the JLA after learning the secret identities of the heroes. They sought vengeance on the JLA for tampering with their minds, first picking off Red Tornado in Happy Harbor and Ralph Dibny in Opal City. This got the JLA’s attention, and they defeated the JLA and then confronted Batman, presenting him with the unconscious bodies of the JLA. The JLA revived, and the villains chose to retreat. The JLA presumed that the former Society members who had their minds intact remembered their secret identities, and went to look in on their loved ones. The former Society members made an attack on the Daily Planet, trying to kill Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White. They planned to take out all the JLA’s loved ones. The JLA defeated them, and had to decide what to do with the villains. Hawkman was adamant about mindwiping them again, and called for a vote, but it was a draw. Zatanna told the team her past actions were an abuse of magic, and she refused to mindwipe anyone ever again. She told the JLA to take her off reserve status and and left for Themyscira. Zatanna talked with Wonder Woman, and had a change of heart. She considered the Society members her mess, and she once again mindwiped them, telling them they were getting off easy for what they tried to do to the JLA.

(Villains United #1) - “Lex Luthor” inducted Faust into his Society.

(Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1) - Faust and inner circle members of the Society finalized their plans for a worldwide prison break to free every incarcerated supervillain on Earth.

(Justice League of America II #1) - Solomon Grundy schemed to acquire Red Tornado's android body. Tornado's body had been destroyed and later reassembled, but his consiousness had yet to enter it. Grundy hired Felix Faust to pose as Deadman and offer Red Tornado the chance to have a human body and physically interact with his wife Kathy Sutton. Red Tornado took the bait, and Felix Faust told Grundy there'd be hell to pay when the Justice League found out what he'd done to one of their own.

Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Mike Sekowsky.

Felix Faust received profiles in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #8, Who's Who Update '88 #1 and Who's Who in the DC Universe #7. Faust received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #20 under the Secret Society of Super-Villains entry.