Real name: Marzdan?
First appearance: Showcase#4 2/2 (Sept./Oct. 1956)
Abilities: Time travel, future tech
Worst act: Theft
Quote: "More than ever now I must get back to my own time...and gain my revenge!"
Created by: John Bromme (script), Carmine Infantino (pencils), Joe Kubert (inks)
2nd ever story and still in the first issue. Marzdan is a thief from the future! Finally caught and sentenced for his crimes, sort of.
Yes, in the far future, if you've done some serious crimes you do serious time-literally
Meaning the cops toss you so far in the future, that baring an intervention from a group of multicolored youngsters, you stay some decades ahead of everyone you know.
This is also the first time Barry Allen pops over to the future, so that's neat.
Marzden finds himself tossed backwards however and soon decides he is going to be a bigshot.
Barry manages to best him and send him back to the future. The idea of a criminal from the future wreaking havoc on the world is pretty neat but would be reused again a few times in the years ahead.
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