Anthony DeanToday’s the birthday of Mark Mardon, aka Flash villain the Weather Wizard.
(Art by Carmine Infantino and Scott Shaw.)
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The Weather Wizard owns a wand that lets him control/generate weather, and is one of Flash's major villains (or "rogues"). Of course, he could make a fortune legitimately (between droughts, climate change, etc.), but using advanced, world-altering tech to rob banks and engage in repeated fights against some guy in spandex is clearly a much better use. 😉
DC's "Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew" series, set on the funny animal parallel Earth of "Earth-C", eventually introduced "Earth-C Minus" (yes, a parallel Earth name that's a pun), which had funny animal versions of the main DCU characters.
As such, it had as their top team the "Justa Lotta Animals" ("JLA"), including "the Crash," a speedy turtle with Barry's costume/powers. His foe here's the "Weather Weasel."
For the record, DC has *three* turtle characters with super-speed: this guy, Fastback of the Zoo Crew, and the Terrific Whatzit (Fastback's uncle, a turtle with Jay Garrick's costume/powers). Apparently the Crash's favorite comic character as a kid was the Terrific Whatzit (a la Barry being a fan of Jay's comics)...
Sentence Grimes@dtgeek I'd be much more into The Flash if the Speed Force family included the turtle speedsters more often.