KRA VASHNU
Real Name: Kra Vashnu
Class: Human magic-user
Occupation: Mind-reader, criminal
Group Affiliation: None
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Capitol City, 1950s era
First Appearance: Plastic Man #21 (January, 1950)
Powers: Vashnu could read minds, and used this power to anticipate the moves of his opponents.History: (Plastic Man #21) - Kra studied in the secret city of the High Llama, learning mind-reading powers, and became a famous performer. Plas and Woozy attended a performance and wanted to ask him to assist the F.B.I. on cases. Kraa’s lover Diana was ready to leave him for actor Harry Edmonds so he strangled her, and when Plas found him he shouted his innocence. To avoid suspicion Kra faked a suicide attempt, and later told Plas that he suspected Harry Edmonds. He shot Edmond to make it look like a suicide, but when Plas found him he deduced that Kra was the culprit. He made a very public show of exposing Kra as a murderer, so the villain went into hiding. He kidnapped Woozy, but Plas knew it was a trap so he sent a fellow F.B.I. agent disguised as him. Kra locked him in a carwash where the water nozzles were loaded with a solvent to dissolve Plas, but the agent was unaffected. Plas arrived, but couldn’t capture Kra because he could anticipate his moves. Plas thought about Woozy having a gun and having the drop on Kra, frightening him, and allowing Plas to knock him cold. Kra went on trial, was found guilty and sentenced to death, and at the sentence he fainted.
Comments: Created by Bill Woolfolk & Jack Cole
In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Kra Vashnu lived on Earth-2. Vashnu, like most characters from the golden age Plastic Man stories, may or may not be a part of post-Crisis DC continuity.
Kra Vashnu was originally a Quality Comics character, which DC obtained the rights to in 1956.
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