MIRROR MASTER

Real Name: Samuel Joseph Scudder

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Supervillain

Group Affiliation: Flash's Rogues Gallery, Injustice Gang of the World, Secret Society of Super-Villains

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Central City

First Appearance: Flash I #105

Powers: All of Mirror Master's weapons utilized mirrors, such as the mirror-gun that shot laser beams, the mirror-pack which gave him the power of flight, mirrors that let him see 20 seconds into the future, and 3-D mirror duplicates of himself. He also had access to any number of Mirror Dimensions.

History: (Flash I #105) - Samuel Scudder was sent to prison for robbery, and while there worked in a mirror factory. One day he accidentally spilled chemicals on a mirror and found that that mirror captured the image of whatever image it reflected for number of minutes. After being released from prison and further experimentation with his camera mirror he developed a whole arsenal based on lasers and created the identity of the Mirror Master. Mirror Master used his camera mirror to capture pictures of bank tellers, then developed the pictures into 3-D constructs and instructed them to rob their places of employment. Flash was investigating the mysterious robberies where no one knew when or how the money went missing. In his civilian identity of Barry Allen he visited his local bank and saw the usual teller Wilkins heading out, but suspected something was amiss because his hair was parted to the left instead of the right and he was wearing his wedding band on his right hand. He followed Wilkins, who put on a burst of speed, and even after changing to the Flash he had a hard time keeping up. Wilkins went into a strange house that belonged to Mirror Master on the outskirts of town. Mirror Master sent a giant mosquito after Flash, but when the hero approached light speed it broke apart. Flash realized Wilkins and the mosquito were both made of light, so when Mirror Master sent a Minotaur after Flash he defeated it by turning the light out out in the room. With his bag of tricks exhausted Flash easily detained Mirror Master.

(Flash I #109) - Iris West and her photographer Hank went to Central City Penitentiary to do a story on Sam Scudder, the Mirror Master. When Hank took Scudder’s photo he mysteriously vanished. Mirror Master had several mirrors secreted on his person when he was taken to jail, and used then to shrink himself to inches high, allowing him to easily slip between his cell’s bars. Mirror Master robbed a bank, cloaking himself in an aura of light that blinded the tellers, but Flash got word of his prison break-out and was on his trail. Flash took back the money Mirror Master stole, but he was able to blind the hero and escape. Mirror Master decided he needed to eliminate the Flash and used his mirror-reducer to shrink the hero down to size. Flash made a perilous trip back to his police lab, narrowly avoiding being stepped on by civilians, to use a Polaroid light machine he’d experimented with and found that increased the growth of cells in plants to return himself to normal size. Confident that Flash was no longer a threat, the Mirror Master robbed the Central City Bank again, but Flash apprehended him, rolling him up in a rug so he couldn’t use his mirror devices.