Real name: Brom Stikk
First appearance: Brave and the Bold#54 (June-July 1964)
Abilities: Weather controlling magic stick
Worst act: Kidnapping
Quote: "So!...the famous Robin resists my power!"
Created by: Bob Haney (story), Bruno Premiani (pencils), and Sheldon Moldoff (inks)
Back in 2022 but this time I figured we'd take a look at some Silver Age shenanigans. This time we'll be taking a look at the foes of the Teen Titans.
Now technically Mr. Twister isn't the Teen Titans first foe as this issue was a simple team-up between Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad but from him everything flows so he is included for completion's sake.
Back in Colonial times, a group of settlers wanted to develop the area known as Hatton Corners. The land's owner, Jacob Stikk, would allow them for the rent of one feather from the American passenger pigeon. If they failed to provide said feather they would forfeit the use of one of their youths for the term of one year.
Yeah, one feather or they make a teenager a slave. The people accepted and thus the payment was carried out. At least until 1913 when the passenger pigeon died out, but the Stikk family had too so no harm, right?
Yeah, until 1964 when Brom Stikk shows up in full regalia and demands the back payment. When the people of Hatton Corners rightfully point out how impossible this is, Stikk takes the payment by kidnapping all the teens in town and forcing them to build a cyclone shaped temple on his private island.
Thankfully Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad happened to be there and mount a rescue.
Wow. Right out of the gate and you know things are weird when a scruffy dude in a tricornered hat and a magic stick kidnaps teens because he didn't get a pigeon feather. Mr. Twister would later get a makeup and become the Gargoyle but that will be recounted later. Honestly this is pretty much what Haney was all about. Utterly insane concepts and lingo no human has ever spoken.
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