Icicle I

ICICLE I

Real Name: Joar Makent

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Physicist, inventor

Group Affiliation: Crime Champions, Injustice Society of the World

Known Relatives: Annie MacDonald (wife, deceased), Cameron Mahkent (Icicle II, son), Doyle Christie (granddaughter), James Christie (grandson, deceased), Lenora MacDonald (sister-in-law)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Keystone City, formerly Gotham City

First Appearance: All-American Comics #90(October, 1947)

Powers: Icicle possessed a powerful cold ray gun, a device capable of instantly freezing any moisture in the air into ice. The cold ray gun could also freeze living beings in place by solidifying the moisture in their bodies and temporarily placing them in suspended animation. The Icicle wore a specially insulated suit to protect him from the effects of his deadly weapon.

History: (All-American Comics #90, 92) - Dr. Makent was a noted European physicist who promised to shock America with his new invention. Upon arriving in America, spectators witnessed his luxury liner freeze solid in Gotham Harbor. Green Lantern I investigated and discovered Makent's corpse. When the criminal Icicle appeared wielding a unique weapon, it was assumed to be Lanky Leeds, a racketeer who was reported to have been traveling on the same ship as Makent. After several encounters, Green Lantern finally unmasked Icicle as Dr. Makent. He had shot Lanky Leeds and used his cold ray gun to disguise Leeds' face as his own to throw off suspicion. Attempting to escape, Icicle leaped off the roof of a building and plunged to his apparent death in the Gotham River.

(Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1 (fb)) - Johnny Sorrow pulled Icicle from the icy Gotham waters. Sorrow knew an Icicle would become important to him, perhaps not Joar, but his future unborn son.

Icicle plagued Green Lantern as a member of both the Injustice Society of the World and the Crime Champions.

(Batman #611) - Icicle and Green Lantern I fought in Metropolis. Their battle was observed by a young Bruce Wayne.

Icicle would eventually tire of the life of crime and reform. He relocated to Keystone City and made a fortune as an inventor.

(Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1 (fb)) - Joar’s wife Annie gave birth to his son Cameron Makent. Cameron was born with mutant freezing powers due to Joar’s prolonged exposure to the cold ray, and Annie died of hypothermia delivering Cameron. Joar blamed his son for her death and refused to take care of him, instead placing him in a foster home.

(Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #0) - Icicle froze Opal City's water processing plant, demanding four million dollars to unfreeze it. This scheme was thwarted by Star-Spangled Kid I.

During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Icicle aided an army of super-villains in raiding the laboratory of the renegade Oan named Krona. Icicle's luck had run out, and he died in this encounter. Anticipating his death, he had made a will leaving half his fortune to Flash II. His estranged son would later take the name Icicle II.

(Hawk and Dove Annual #1) - S.T.A.R. Labs opened a portal to Limbo in operation Zeppelin, and the souls of deceased villains Iron Major, Top, Clayface, El Papagayo, Electrocutioner and Icicle were seeking to escape the underworld and return to Earth through the portal. When Director Jeffrey Simon, creator of Zeppelin, disappeared, a rescue party went through the portal, and the villains captured them. Icicle was desperate to return to Earth to do good and ameliorate the bad his did in life, and in a panic he shot rescue party member Proski when he tried to escape, accidentally freezing him to death. The villains bargained with their demonic jailer, a demon impersonating Etrigan, exchanging their prisoners to gain temporary mortal forms, and prepared to return to Earth. They were opposed by Hawk, Dove, and the Titans West. The battle was fierce, but the tide turned when Jeb Stuart came down from heaven and gave Hawk his Haunted Tank. The false Etrigan offered them a way out through another portal, but he was merely toying with the dead villains, and when he sent them through a portal, it turned out to be an entrance to Hell. Icicle was spared because he was truly repentant, and Jeb Stuart led him to Heaven.

Comments: Created by Irwin Hasen & Robert Kanigher

In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Icicle I lived on Earth-2.

In Bizarro Comics #1 Mr. Mxyzptlk gave Bizarro-Superman a crash course on battling villains, and afterward Bizarro had images of various heroes and villains fighting, including Icicle, wandering through his mind.

Martian Manhunter had a hallucination about Icicle in Martian Manhunter II #36.