Knodar

KNODAR

Real Name: Knodar

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Criminal

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Earth, 2447 AD

First Appearance: Green Lantern I #28 (October, 1947)

Powers: Knodar used a Magitron to conjure objects from thin air, mostly using it to create 25th Century tech such as an anti-gravity ray, brain-ray, metal-controller, a fortress car and a time catapult.

History: (Green Lantern I #28) - In the 25th Century crime was a thing of the past because Magitrons that every citizen owned could conjure anything they wanted from thin air. Knodar had an inborn criminal personality, and couldn't help but be the world's only criminal. He was apprehended and put on display as a ridiculous anachronism, although he bemoaned he would have been considered a criminal mastermind in Earth's past. He stole his jailer Dalmyr's Magitron, constructed a time catapult, and traveled to the year 1947. He assembled a gang and pulled off some heists, but his underlings were worried that the one person who could overcome his advanced tech was Green Lantern, so he used his Magitron to assemble GL's identity, and shot him dead. Because he didn't know GL's secret identity of Alan Scott the construct was lifeless, but its' destruction made Alan forget that he was ever GL. Knodar threw the body through Alan's window because he was known as GL's friend, and went on a crime spree. Alan found a GL costume in his closet and decided to pose as the hero to stop Knodar using a flashlight with a green filter. Knodar easily captured him by creating a cell with the Magitron, took him to his hideout and attached him to deadly grinding gears. Dalmyr traveled back in time to pursue Knodar, hopping a ride in Doiby Dickle's cab. Doiby didn't believe he was a time traveler, and when he couldn't pursue Knodar further on the roads Dalmyr used his Magitron to turn his cab into a flying vehicle. He rushed to Knodar's hideout, and when his Magitron wore off Doiby's cab fell from the sky, smashing it. Knodar captured Dalmyr and put him in the same trap as GL before resuming his crime spree. GL triggered his power ring to save himself and Dalmyr, and his memory resumed. Back at full power he easily captured Knodar, who was taken back to the future by Dalmyr. GL and Doiby both decided not to tell the other about the day they'd had, because it seemed unbelievable.

(Green Lantern I #30) - Educator Rhya sought to rehabilitate Knodar, but he stole one of her books on body-transference, and used it's methods to swap placed with GL. Arriving in the past Knodar put Doiby under his control with a brain-ray and demanded to know who the most notorious criminal of all time was. Doiby named Jesse James, and told him about his famous train robberies, so, with Doiby in tow he used a metal-controller to rip a train off the tracks and rob the passengers within. GL was in Knodar's cell, but soon figured out Knodar's game, and used his power ring to return to the present with Rhya. At the sight of GL Knodar fled with Doiby, and hit a number of other trains. GL and Rhya boarded a likely target, and when Knodar took the train off the rails GL confronted him. He captured GL and Rhya, tying them to a stove he'd hooked up to the train's third rail. GL freed himself and Rhya, and found that Doiby had resisted the brain-ray enough to scribble a fish, a clue to Knodar's next crime. J.F. Salmon was president of the Gotham railroads, and in order to top Jesse James Knodar was trying to force him to sell the railroads to him. GL defeated Knodar, and Rhya brought him back to the 25th Century.

(JSA #28) - Nevada; Knodar went to Roulette's House to attend one of her gladiatorial contests. He was among the crowd of villains that watched members of the JSA forced to fight each other.

(Formerly Known as the Justice League #4) - Roulette's House, Nevada; Knodar was among the crowd of villains that watched members of the Super Buddies forced to fight each other.

Comments: Created by John Broome & Irwin Hasen.

In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths DCU Knodar lived on Earth-2.

Knodar received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #26.