SIVANA

Real Name: Thaddeus Bodog Sivana

Class: Parallel Earth (Earth-S) human

Occupation: Would-be ruler of the universe, scientist

Group Affiliation: Sivana Family

Known Relatives: Sivana (great-grandfather, deceased), Sivana the Sorcerer (ancestor, deceased), Beautia Sivana (daughter),  Black Sivana {ancestor, deceased), Black Sheep Sivana (ancestor, deceased), Georgia Sivana (daughter), Magnificus Sivana (son),  Simon Sivana (ancestor, deceased), Sir Sivana (ancestor, deceased), Thaddeus Sivana, Jr. (brother), unnamed first wife (deceased), unnamed second wife (deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Fawcett City, formerly Venus, Earth-S

First Appearance: Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #2 (February, 1940)

Powers: Sivana was an evil genius and brilliant inventor. His inventions included a spaceship he used for transport, a secret formula for walking through walls, and suspendium, a compound that could put people into suspended animation.

History:  (Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #21) - Sivana exiled himself to Venus in a spaceship he built after being forced out of the scientific community because his ideas were far ahead of their time and his desire to create a utopia instead of aiding industrialists in making profits. He was recently widowed and had to raise his children Beautia and Magnificus by himself. Sivana later remarried on Earth, and raised the children of his second marriage, Georgia and Sivana, Jr.., who were spitting images of him, on Venus, after his second wife died. The tragedy in his life broke him, and Sivana decided that instead of doing good for humanity he would do the most harm he could, and set himself up as ruler of the universe. When Georgia and Jr. came of age they eagerly joined their father in his plots to make himself the rightful ruler of the universe.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #21) - Captain Marvel’s arch-nemesis Sivana recruited three other foes of Marvel, Biggy Brix, Captain Death and Herr Geyer to form the Vengeful Four. Sivana revealed that Captain Marvel’s secret identity was Billy Batson, and sent his men out to scour hotel registries so they could find and abduct Billy. The villains didn’t know that the Billy Batson Fan Club, consisting of three boys named Billy Batson, were in town. They kidnapped Tall Billy, Fat Billy and Hill Billy, but failed to find their actual target. When Sivana learned that the Billys were friends with his nemesis he sent a ransom note to radio station WHIZ, demanding Billy show up at an abandoned saw-mill or his friends would be killed. Billy knew it was a trap, but had no choice, and when he arrived the Vengeful Four knocked him out and gagged him so he couldn’t say Shazam. Sivana tied all the Billys to a log and started up the saw, gloating that he was leaving them to their doom. As they inched closer to the saw Billy managed to use it to cut through his gag, but when he said Shazam the sound of his voice was drowned out. He asked his new friends for help, and when they all said the word Shazam they were given the powers of Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel and his new Lieutenant Marvels Fat Marvel, Hill Billy Marvel and Tall Marvel spotted the Vengeful Four flying off in Sivana's plane and crashed through it, with the Vengeful Four seemingly perishing in the crash. Billy’s friends were overjoyed at being able to team up with their hero.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4) - The Lieutenant Marvels visited Billy Batson, excited for his next broadcast. Sivana, with his daughter Beautia in tow, was stalking Billy, and ordered his thugs to run him down with a car. Billy spotted them in time to change into Captain Marvel and thrash the goons. Billy did a broadcast on WHIZ about the near hit-and-run and how he was saved by Captain Marvel. Sterling Morris was thrilled by the broadcast, but was worried that Sivana would go after Billy again. Sivana told his goons to kidnap Billy Batson, and Beautia spoke up, saying her dad should just leave Billy alone. He blew her off, saying Billy stood in his way as ruler of the universe. His thugs kidnapped the Lieutenant Marvels, but Captain Marvel managed to trail the crooks back to Sivana’s hideout. Sivana tied up the Lieutenants and put them under a bladed pendulum death trap. Marvel burst on the scene and his Lieutenants said Shazam! turning into Marvels. They thrashed Sivana’s gang while Sivana fled, and found Beautia tied up in a closet. She said her father had turned against her because she questioned his methods, and warned them Sivana was going to blow up the hideout. The Marvels flew her to safety as the hideout blew up. The explosion was extensive, and Beautia wept, fearing her father had blown himself up, but Captain Marvel comforted her, saying Sivana was far too devious to die by his own hand.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #5) - Billy Batson covered a screening of Captain Marvel films for the Municipal Orphan’s Home. Beautia Sivana was hosting the event, and nearly swooned when she told Billy that Captain Marvel himself would be appearing. Billy was suspicious, since o one had contacted him about making an appearance. The show’s benefactor introduced a fake Captain Marvel, who abducted orphan Katinka. Billy changed into Captain Marvel and confronted the benefactor, who turned out to be Sivana in disguise. Sivana escaped, and Marvel willingly went to the police station to answer questions about Katina’s kidnapping. An ambassador from Mentonia arrived, declaring that Katinka was the princess of his country who’d disappeared shortly after her birth, and he demanded her back. Beautia told the police she’d testify against Marvel, and had lost all faith in him. Marvel refused to be arrested while Katinka was in peril and flew off to rescue her. Sivana kidnapped Beautia, telling her he was responsible for kidnapping Katinka so he could ransom her, but didn’t want his daughter talking. The fake Captain Marvel helped her escape and drove her to Toughtown, where Katinka was being kept. Sivana showed up again, saying he was only teasing Beautia by giving her hope of rescuing Katinka. He intended to implicate her in the kidnapping alongside Captain Marvel because he wanted to punish her for turning against her evil family. He explained that the fake Marvel was actually heavyweight boxer Bummy Bond, who’d undergone facial reconstruction for the ruse. Captain Marvel showed up with the police, and to prove the kidnapper was an imposter he knocked him out with one blow. Beautia said she’d return Katinka to her family, and apologized to Marvel for being too quick to judge him, but Marvel wasn’t worried about it, saying that everyone made mistakes.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #5) - Sivana created a new chemical potion and had his goon Herman try it. Herman turned from a hulking bruiser into a small wizened man and Sivana explained to his other goon Endicot that the potion changed anyone into a completely different person, body and mind. Sivana gave Herman the antidote and crowed that his potion would finally remove Captain Marvel as a threat from his schemes to rule the world. Sivana went to the WHIZ station, and, posing as a soft drink vendor, got Billy Batson to drink the potion. Billy turned into a small bespectacled child, no longer aware that he was Captain Marvel. Sivana mobilized his criminal army to take over key U.S. cities and declared himself ruler over all. The public was in a panic, and Billy came across children playing Captain Marvel, hoping their hero would return to save them. Billy asked them how to play, and they told him to just say the magic word Shazam. Billy changed into Captain Marvel, undoing the potion’s effects. He stormed Sivana’s newly built castle and garnered the support of the slaves he’d forced to protect him. Marvel found Sivana’s stores of his chemical potion and after curing the people Sivana had changed into other people destroyed them all except for one batch. He tore the castle apart until he found Sivana hiding in a chimney and forced him to drink the potion. Sivana turned into a mild-mannered gentleman and Marvel hoped that would be the end of Sivana as a threat.

(Marvel Family (Fawcett) #10) - Sivana met with his children Sivana, Jr. and Georgia Sivana, saying that since they’d failed to take the Marvel Family down on their own they needed to team up as the Sivana Family. Sivana developed a machine to destroy the Marvels, but when he tried to test it by measuring the voltage of Shazam lightning the power surge broke the meter. Sivana knew he needed a power source greater than an atomic bomb to make his machine work. Sivana, Jr. Had uncovered manuscripts from ancient Atlantis about protium, an element even more powerful than plutonium. Protium was a radioactive element that turned into neutrium after 10,000 years and electrium after another 10,000. Sivana wanted samples of all three elements but knew they’d need to time travel. Fortunately for him he knew all the Marvel Family’s secrets and they could reach the future and the past from the Rock of Eternity. The Sivana Family flew their rocketships faster than the speed of light to reach the Rock, and Shazam alerted the Marvel Family. Mary Marvel followed Georgia Sivana to the Atlantis of 8,000 B.C. Chal-Patzun was the Atlantean professor who discovered protium and Georgia met up with him, learning that he’d correctly predicted Atlantis was about to sink,. Chal-Patzun showed her his machine powered by protium that he said could save Atlantis, and she hit him over the head with a stick. Mary Marvel arrived in time to restrain Georgia. Chal-Patzun explained that Atlantis was doomed, but after 20,000 years the protium in his machine would be changed into electrium which could be used to raise the city again and restore it to its’ former glory. Chal-Patzun had sent his son away from Atlantis with the secrets of how to operate the machine, and his son would pass that knowledge on to his children and his children’s children. Mary Marvel changed back into Mary Batson to see if her magic lightning could speed up the change of protium to electrium to no avail. The cataclysm hit Atlantis and the city sank, and Georgia managed to restrain Mary, steal a vial of protium and escape in her rocketship with Mary as her prisoner. In the present Sivana kidnapped Dr. Charles Patterson, the descendant of Chal-Patzun, and forced him to show Sivana were Atlantis was under the waves. Captain Marvel pursed him underwater, but Sivana used a giant electric eel to shock Marvel and turn him back into Billy Batson. Sivana took a vial of neutrium from Chal-Patzun’s machine, fatally shot Dr. Patterson and left with Billy as his prisoner. In the future of year 12000 Chass Passon, Chal-Patzun’s descendant, used the remaining electrium to finally raise Atlantis. Sivana, Jr. Clocked him with a wrench, but Captain Marvel, Jr. Ran him off. Marvel, Jr. Introduced himself to Passon, but by saying Captain Marvel he changed back into Freddy Freeman. Sivana, Jr. Knocked him out with a rock, took a vial of electrium and returned to the present with Freddy in tow. Sivana powered his machine, which created a cloud of free electrons around Earth, deflecting the Shazam lightning when the Marvels said their magic words. Sivana showed off his newly built palace, confident that without the Marvel Family to thwart him his family would assume their rightful role as rulers of the universe. The Sivana Family let the Marvels loose on the grounds to hunt them for sport, but Billy was wily enough to evade them and make his way to Sivana’s machine, depowering it. The Marvels said their magic words, wrecked the machine, and defeated the Sivanas.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #71) - Worldwide Captain Marvel Day was announced, and Captain Marvel was invited to appear in Washington, D.C., Paris, France, Moscow, Russia and Chungking, China. The only problem was that the appearances were slated at the same time, so Captain Marvel visited his Lieutenants Hill Billy Marvel, Tall Marvel and Fat Marvel, asking them to fill-in at three of the locations. Sivana was outraged that Captain Marvel was being celebrated by the world, and knowing he could only be at one of the four main celebrations he determined to wreck them all using his Instantaneous Rocket Ship. He showed up in Washington, deflating a Captain Marvel balloon that threatened to smother the crowd underneath. Fat Marvel flung the balloon away, but before he could get his hands on Sivana, the mad scientist was off. Sivana used a blowtorch on the Eiffel Tower to bring it down, but Hill Billy Marvel chased him off. In Moscow he threw a bomb  into the crowd, which was caught and defused by Tall Marvel. In China sivana hid inside a dragon float and released poison gas, but was foiled by Captain Marvel. Marvel told him how he could be in four places at once, and tore out the motor on Sivana’s Instantaneous Rocket Ship. He had an auxiliary motor and flew off, but was caught in international waters by Captain Marvel. They’d crossed the International Date Line, and Captain Marvel was amused that he’d caught Sivana on a Tuesday for crimes he committed on Wednesday. Sivana said he never wanted to think about time again and just wanted to go to jail