WIZARD
Real Name: William Asmodeus Zard
Class: Human magic-user
Occupation: Supervillain
Group Affiliation: The Society, formerly Injustice Society of the World, Crime Champions, Secret Society of Super-Villains, Injustice, Unlimited
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile, 1940s to present
First Appearance: All-Star Comics #34 (April, 1947)
Powers: The Wizard was a powerful sorcerer, able to hypnotize, astral project and cast illusions.
History:
(Identity Crisis #3 (fb)) - Wizard and the Secret Society switched bodies with the JLA. They took time to document the JLA’s secret identities. After being defeated the JLA erased their memories with Zatanna’s help.
(JLA #115-119) - Despero restored the memories of former Secret Society of Super-Villains members Wizard, Chronos, Felix Faust, Floronic Man, Matter Master and Star Sapphire, who’d been mind-wiped years ago by the JLA after learning the secret identities of the heroes. They sought vengeance on the JLA for tampering with their minds, first picking off Red Tornado in Happy Harbor and Ralph Dibny in Opal City. This got the JLA’s attention, and they defeated the JLA and then confronted Batman, presenting him with the unconscious bodies of the JLA. The JLA revived, and the villains chose to retreat. The JLA presumed that the former Society members who had their minds intact remembered their secret identities, and went to look in on their loved ones. The former Society members made an attack on the Daily Planet, trying to kill Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White. They planned to take out all the JLA’s loved ones. The JLA defeated them, and had to decide what to do with the villains. Hawkman was adamant about mindwiping them again, and called for a vote, but it was a draw. Zatanna told the team her past actions were an abuse of magic, and she refused to mindwipe anyone ever again. She told the JLA to take her off reserve status and and left for Themyscira. Zatanna talked with Wonder Woman, and had a change of heart. She considered the Society members her mess, and she once again mindwiped them, telling them they were getting off easy for what they tried to do to the JLA.
(Villains United #2) - Wizard joined “Lex Luthor’s” Society. Luthor wanted to destroy the Secret Six III, a group of dissident villains that refused to join the Society, so he sent Wizard and a number of other Society members to confront the Six aboard the Petrovia, a Russia cargo freighter carrying Thanagarian weapons destined for the Society. The Society defeated the Secret Six and brought them back to Lex Luthor.
Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Irwin Hasen.
Wizard received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #26. He received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #11 under the Injustice Society of the World entry and Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #20 under the Secret Society of Super-Villains entry. He received a profile in Who's Who: Update '87 #3 under the Injustice, Unlimited entry.
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