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Josephine MacDonald, also known as Josie Mac, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.. She first appeared in Detective Comics #763 (December 2001) and was created by Judd Winick and Cliff Chiang.

Josie Mac is a police officer who had a promising career ahead of her, until she responded to a call and discovered the mayor's wife in bed with an exotic dancer. Four days after the incident, her mistake of embarrassing the mayor's wife got her moved to the Missing Persons department at the precinct. Josie made the best out of her transfer because unknown to her colleagues, she possessed minor psychic powers, which allowed her to find things and people which are lost through picking up "messages" from inanimate objects.[1]

Josie's first case in Missing Persons got her partnered up with Oscar Castro. The grandson of mob boss Anthony Antonelli was declared missing. The attackers of his grandson had shot at policemen who had responded to the struggle before the boy was kidnapped. Josie went to her apartment to review the case and discovered Batman was waiting for her. Batman tells her that he is aware of her abilities and warns her to stay away from this case. Josie ignored his warning and it got her father killed. Batman offered his condolences and agrees to help Josie to find Antonelli's grandson while in the same time bringing her father's murderer to justice. She and Batman learn that Two-Face was responsible for the kidnapping because he hated Antonelli for double crossing him on a deal that went bad months ago. They apprehend Two-Face while rescuing Antonelli's grandson. During interrogation, Two-Face professed that he had nothing to do with the murder of Josie's father; Batman believed him but Josie didn't. Josie later discovered that Antonelli's family lawyer David Montassano engineered events to gain control over the Antonelli mob. Montassano was responsible for the deal going bad between Two-Face and Antonelli and also for murder of Josie's father. He figured the death of her father would intimidate and deter her from pursuing the Antonelli case any further. After his arrest, Josie's partner Oscar Castro retired soon after Commissioner Michael Atkins transferred Josie to the Major Crimes Unit. After filling in for Renee Montoya for a time, Josie was partnered with Marcus Driver on the second shift.[2]

Moxie "Boss" Mannheim is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, and the father of Bruno Mannheim.

In the Pre-Crisis, Moxie Mannheim founded Intergang in the 1920s where he was then killed by rivals.[3][4]

In the Post-Crisis, Boss Moxie had been in prison since the 1940s after being captured by the Newsboy Legion and was later released from prison. He went to one of his operations to realign himself with Granny Goodness and Virman Vundabar. Discovering that the Newsboys were, seemingly, the same age as when he first fought them, Boss Moxie determined to find out how such a thing could be. He worked with Granny Goodness, Virman Vundabar, and the Female Furies into capturing the Newsboy Legion. During the fight against Guardian, Boss Moxie fell into a chasm. Badly injured, Moxie is found by Project Cadmus geneticist Dabney Donovan.[5] Allying with Dabney Donovan, Boss Moxie arranged for himself and his dead gang members from the 1940s to be cloned into youthful bodies with superpowers. This led to his henchmen Ginny "Torcher" McCree, Mike "Machine" Gun, Noose, and Rough House being cloned and receiving superpowers. Using Vincent Edge to arrange a meeting between Metropolis' gang leaders, he killed them all with a bomb in the clone of his original body, had Noose kill Vincent once he served his purpose, and declared himself the new head of Intergang. The new Intergang spent much of their time tracking down Jimmy Olsen, whom Boss Moxie believed knew Superman's secret identity.[6]

After Morgan Edge's short-lived reclaiming of his control on Intergang, Lex Luthor took over Intergang and allowed Boss Moxie to be his figurehead.[7]

Boss Moxie had a history with Frank Sixty where one encounter left Frank hospitalized for six months. He later approached the now-cyborg Frank to make him a weapon to destroy Superman. This resulted in a giant lobster robot where its emergence had totaled Frank's lab. Boss Moxie and his remaining lieutenants were captured by Superman. Frank emerged from the rubble and declared himself the new leader of Intergang.[8]

During the "Infinite Crisis" storyline, Boss Moxie popped up as a member of Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Secret Society of Super Villains.[9] There was some suggestion that Boss Moxie was slain. The suggestion comes from a sequence during the Battle of Metropolis which Superboy-Prime snaps a villain's neck, killing him. In an interview DC editor-in-chief Dan DiDio confirmed that Boss Moxie did indeed die in Infinite Crisis #7 by stating that Superboy-Prime snapped his neck.

March Harriet (also called March Hare) is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Harriet Pratt is a small-time con artist and part-time escort who operated outside of Gotham City. She was recruited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to join the Wonderland Gang which included a brainwashed Mad Hatter. Harriet acted as their version of the March Hare.[11]

In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called "DC Rebirth", which restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior to "The New 52". In this continuity, Harriet Pratt was born in East London and fell in love with Lily Shaw. When they moved to Gotham City, they stole valuable items and got jobs as escorts at a club owned by a businessman named William Warren. When they came across a small man who was being chased by Warren's security guards, the man escaped and both girls were accidentally shot where the security guards left them for dead. Harriet was nursed back to health by the small man who turned out to be Jervis Tetch. He stated to Harriet that Warren stole devices from him. This caused Harriet to share a mutual revenge on Warren upon Harriet learning that Jervis is Mad Hatter. A few days later, Harriet took up the mantle of March Harriet and joined his Wonderland Gang where they attacked Warren's complex. As Warren was away on a business trip, March Harriet.[12]

Matches Malone was originally a Gotham gang boss whom Batman attempted to recruit to help take down Ra's al Ghul. He was accidentally killed by a ricocheting bullet that was meant for Batman, who began to impersonate the man to use his underworld contacts and to fool Ra's.[13]

Post-Crisis, he was a relatively small-time arsonist with his brother Carver and who came to Gotham City early on in Batman's career, attracting Batman's attention when Carver was apparently murdered. Although Matches was the prime suspect, there was no concrete evidence to make the charges stick and Matches was released, only for Batman to subsequently find what appeared to be Matches's dead body in another fire, apparently a suicide. Batman never reported his death; at the time, he had been attempting to establish a criminal alias for himself to help gather information, but the exclusive nature of the criminal sects meant that no one would recruit someone that they had not heard of, prompting Batman to adopt Malone's identity as his own as nobody else knew of the death.

Years later, Batman learned the truth about what had happened. Carver's death had actually been a suicide prompted by his guilt over a fire that he and Matches had started that resulted in the death of a homeless man who had been resting in the building they had torched. Matches made the body look like a murder victim because he was ashamed of his brother's suicide, but did such a good job of it that he ended up basically framing himself for his brother's murder. Deciding to escape Batman stalking him for the crime, Matches used the body of their earlier victim to fake his own death; Batman was so eager to establish a criminal alias that he never took the time to definitively confirm the body's identity.

After operating underground for years by committing low-end robberies, Matches returned to Gotham after hearing reports of 'his' activities, only to be shot by Scarface for 'his' recent betrayal, surviving long enough to simply confess his role in events to Batman and Nightwing before dying. His last request was that Batman bury him next to his brother and avenge his death. Batman subsequently destroyed Scarface in 'revenge' for Matches. Talking with Nightwing, Batman observed that he would continue using Malone's identity as he had come to recognize that Matches was not an evil man, but had done some bad things that he never had the chance to make up for, the Dark Knight regarding his use of Malone's name as a chance to give Matches some absolution.

The "Matches Malone" identity indirectly caused the events of Batman: War Games, when Stephanie Brown, after being fired as Robin, attempted to implement an old plan of Batman's that would allow the latter to take control of the city's criminal organizations, hoping that this would impress Batman enough to convince to take Stephanie back. Stephanie was unaware that the "agent" who was meant to take control of the meeting was actually Batman himself acting as Malone, resulting in tensions between the crime families flaring up and most of them being killed in the subsequent stand-off, leading into the subsequent gang wars and Stephanie's own apparent death.

In The Batman Adventures comic book series, Batman uses the Matches Malone guise against the False Face Society and a backstory reveals Malone was a low-level enforcer for Rupert Thorne who agreed to become a snitch for Batman and Commissioner Gordon against Thorne. But when Malone began skimming cash from Thorne, he was shot to death by "two Chicago triggers" who go by the monikers Dapper (for always dressing well) and Cricket (for a short wiry build). Upon finding the dying Malone and being told that his killers went to a well-known Chinese restaurant, Batman removed his glasses—and was shocked by what Malone looked like. Batman took the man's guise, defeated the two hitmen and sent them to prison, and has used the guise ever since.

In the Batman Beyond Rebirth series, Terry McGinnis uses the alias of "Trey Malone", son of Matches Malone, to infiltrate Terminal's Jokerz, but Terminal saw through Terry's disguise, due to recognizing him from high school.

Ginny "Torcher" McCree is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

In the 1940s, Ginny McCree was part of Moxie Mannheim's Intergang branch. Upon her arrest, she was remanded to Arkham Asylum where she died in 1943. In the present, Moxie Mannheim had Dabney Donovan clone him into a younger body and also had his dead gang members cloned into new bodies with superpowers where Ginny McCree received pyrokinesis. After an older clone of Moxie exploded enough to kill most of the gang members assembled by Vincent Edge, Ginny accompanied Moxie's gang and Dabney in entering the blown-up room as Dabney collects the fresh samples of the dead gang bosses. Ginny is told by Moxie that Dabney will make another clone of Mike Gunn after the original one burned up when defeated by Superman. Ginny then proceeds to set the place on fire.[15]

Menace is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Real name Russell Tavaroff, he is a former friend of Luke Fox who became his enemy upon getting exposed to the Venom offshoot Snakebite which gives him enhanced strength and durability at the cost of giving him a mental illness.[16]

Menagerie is a name shared by two antiheroines in the DC Universe, both members of the Elite.[17] The two are Puerto Rican sisters who are linked with a symbiotic alien weapon crèche called symbeasts.

Pamela first appears in Action Comics #775 (March 2001). While the origins of her powers are unclear in Action Comics #775, Manchester Black states that the rogue Men in Black (from the Department of Extranormal Operations) once picked up the dregs of society, turning them into weapons and selling them off to the highest alien bidder. Black recruits Pam to be a member of the Elite. This group takes it upon themselves to "free the Earth of scum". They come into conflict with Superman during their first mission and Superman disables them following a showdown on Jupiter's moon, Io. The Elite are delivered into custody, but soon released by President Lex Luthor.[18] During an assassination attempt on Luthor, Menagerie reveals to Superman that the Elite are acting against their wills. For her betrayal, Black induces a stroke in her, putting her in a permanent vegetative state.[19]

Sonja first appears in JLA #100 (August 2004). Upon Black's apparent death, his sister, Vera Black, takes it upon herself to clear the family name and reassembles the Elite as a force for good. As Sister Superior she convinces Pamela's sister, Sonja, to assume control of the alien cache as the second Menagerie. Vera then approaches the JLA with a proposition to form a sort of black ops JLA team: Justice League Elite.[20] Sonja's hatred of Manchester Black becomes a hatred of the Elite. Sonja sees this as her opportunity to kill Vera's dream, so she plays along and joins the team. In their first mission, Menagerie secretly coaxes Coldcast into killing the foreign terrorist dictator, Hi-Shan Bhat.[21] Menagerie lays low during the fallout and puts effort into her personal relationship with Coldcast. The two become lovers and are drawn together by their shared affection for Pamela. Then, while most of the Elite goes underground, Vera is finally fully overtaken by the disembodied Manchester Black.[22]

While Black threatens Earth with a Fourth World god, Menagerie goes missing and Coldcast is arrested by the JLA for Bhat's murder. Coldcast confesses to the murder and is taken to the Slab prison. There he is visited by the spirit of the recently departed Manitou Raven, who frees him from Menagerie's control.[23] Coldcast is exonerated and the team tracks Sonja to Costa Rica, where she affirms that she acted against Vera to punish her for Manchester's role in the death of Menagerie's sister. She is taken into JLA custody, deprived of the aliens, and begins a gradual separation that they hope will sever her connection to the symbeasts; Green Arrow observes that the process is basically heroin withdrawal multiplied by a billion plus one, and at first the beasts and the host can only be kept apart from each other by a transparent wall.[24]

Mentalla (Delya Castil) was a rejected Legion candidate who infiltrated the Fatal Five, but was found out and subsequently murdered by the Emerald Empress.

Micron is a superhero, successor of the Atom, and member of Justice League Unlimited. He made his first appearance in the Batman Beyond episode "The Call, Part 1" (November 2000), voiced by Wayne Brady.

Midas is a character in DC Comics and an enemy of Green Arrow.[26]

Midas (whose real name is unknown) is a scientist working on a bacterial strain that would be able to revolutionize the treatment of toxic waste. While demonstrating his findings, he encounters a woman who seduces him, but turns out to be an eco-terrorist hoping to steal the formula. The terrorists botch the job, causing the explosion which kills them, but sends Midas screaming in flames. Burned alive, he leaps into a river of toxic waste, and emerged as a monster entirely composed of it.[27] Skilled in mechanical engineering as well as toxic waste studies, Midas constructs the Blood Rose robot, who becomes the love of his life, aiding him in a life of crime that especially worked against Oliver Queen.[28]

A different version of Midas, renamed James Midas (portrayed by Andrew Kavadas), appears in Arrow season seven episode "Training Day". This version is a corrupt businessman and CEO of Midas Medical. In the episode, he begins selling bullets containing chlormethine to the gangs. Oliver finds and arrests him, but due to procedural mistake, Mayor Pollard releases him from charges. He attempts to rid of all of chlormethine, but was ambushed by deputized Team Arrow and the members of the police force, being arrested properly.

Mime is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Camilla Orton was the daughter of a firework salesman named Oscar Ortin who had a disdain for loud noises. After the death of her parents, Camilla began practicing in the art of the mime artist. She started the Cameo Company until it went bankrupt driving her to a life of crime. She stole several bells from the churches across Gotham City before being apprehended by Batman and remanded to Arkham Asylum.[29]

Mister Toad is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Mister Toad is a humanoid toad who is a minion of Professor Pyg and a member of the Circus of Strange. When he was apprehended by Batman and Robin, Mister Toad warned them that Professor Pyg will have his revenge on them.[30] Professor Pyg led the Circus of Strange into attacking the Gotham City Police Department where Mister Toad was being held. By the time Batman and Robin defeated the Circus of Strange, they found Mister Toad dead in his cell where there is a domino in his hand.[31]

In the pages of "The New Golden Age", Mister Toad (who was referred to as "Old Toad") had stolen a virus where he was subdued by Batman.[32]

Molecule is a superhero in the DC Universe.

The character, created by Geoff Johns and Carlos Ferreira, first appeared in Teen Titans (vol. 3) #38 (September 2006).

Within the context of the stories, Molecule is a teen superhero patterned after the Atom and a member of the Teen Titans during the "one-year gap" between the series Infinite Crisis and the "One Year Later" storyline. He is one of a group of teen heroes attacked by the Terror Titans and put in the arena of the Dark Side Club. While trying to escape, he is severed in two by the Persuader.[34]

Monarch of Menace is an enemy of Batman with a royalty theme.

He was the first villain to beat Batman, and later retired after acquiring enough cash, Batman told this story to Robin, he also has a son who was humiliated by the Monarch and his henchmen, he later decides to become the new Monarch and recreate the crimes of his father, however, he fails miserably, and Batman and Robin then find the Monarch and finally take him down. [35]

He later returns, and is now hiring multiple Batman villains to do his bidding and steal cash for him while Batman was missing, however, when Batman returned, he defeated both the Monarch and his allies. [36]

Recently, he has returned in the Prime Earth continuity. [37]

Mongal is a supervillain in the DC Universe. She made her first unnamed appearance in Showcase '95 #8 (September 1995); her first appearance as Mongal was in Superman (vol. 2) #170 (July 2001).

Mongal is the sister of Mongul II (who is the son of Mongul I), introduced by her brother to Superman in Superman (vol. 2) #170. When Krypto the Superdog nearly killed Mongul II, Mongal escaped and reappeared to destroy New York City. After Maxima's death in the Our Worlds at War miniseries, Mongal was chosen as the ruler of Maxima's homeworld of Almerac and was established as a galactic threat to Superman.

After a squabble with her brother in Green Lantern (vol. 4) #8 (March 2006), Mongul II killed her with a punch, stating family to be a weakness.

Her desiccated body appears in Green Lantern Corps (vol. 2) #20 as the target to Mongul II's ramblings. Mongul II, newly imbued with a Sinestro Corps ring, taunts her skull by saying he would be the one to carry on their father's legacy and then drops it from the sky.

Mongal possesses superhuman strength and stamina.

Monocle is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Jonathan Cheval is an honest businessman in the field of optics, who lost his business to a criminal's schemes. Determined to get revenge on the people that cheated him, Cheval invents a number of monocles that can emit beams of energy.[41] He is eventually captured by Hawkman after killing two of the criminals, although the remaining one is jailed with him.

Decades later, after being released from prison, he is invited by the Ultra-Humanite to join his Secret Society of Super Villains which battles Hawkman along with the rest of the Justice Society of America and the Justice League of America.[42] He and his colleagues are defeated and banished into an inter-dimensional limbo until the Ultra-Humanite from 1942 contacts his future counterpart, enlisting the aid of all criminals then present in limbo. Monocle briefly resides once more in 1942 until he and his allies are defeated once again, this time at the hands of the All-Star Squadron.

Monocle joins up with a new version of the Secret Society in JLA-80 Page Giant #1 (1998). Judging from the story's end, this entire adventure is a tall tale told between Sonar II and the Rainbow Raider.

Monocle appears with Merlyn and other various villains and ex-Suicide Squad members in the mini-series Identity Crisis (2004). Though his appearance in Identity Crisis sets him up for the big time, he is killed by the most recent Manhunter (Kate Spencer) in Manhunter # 9 (June 2005).

During the Blackest Night storyline, it is revealed that Monocle's remains were gathered by the Justice League along with the remains of several other deceased super-villains after Nightwing found out about a rash of graverobbings.[43]

In September 2011, "The New 52" rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Monocle is reintroduced in the Forever Evil storyline where he thinks that the Crime Syndicate of America is actually the Justice League in disguise where they are tricking the villains. Monocle ends up killed by Ultraman's heat vision.[44]

Juan Montez is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Juan Montez is a former professional boxer who went by the nickname "Mauler" and is a former sparring partner of Ted Grant. With Maria Montez, he became the father of Yolanda. At the time when Ted Grant was thought to be lost in Limbo forever, Nuklon gave Ted's champion belt to Juan to remember him by.[45]

Maria Montez is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Maria Montez is the wife of Juan Montez and an old friend of Ted Grant. When Maria and her unnamed sister were pregnant, they were experimented upon by the evil Doctor Love. The side effects of the experiments gave her daughter Yolanda abilities and she supported her campaign as the second Wildcat to the point where she used her sewing skills to patch up her costume if it gets damaged.[46]

After Yolanda was killed by Eclipso, Maria brought her body to a witch who was able to bring Yolanda back to life. However, this was exposed as a scam by the original Wildcat.[47]

Sophie "Gimme" Moore is a character in DC Comics.

The character first appeared in Detective Comics #859 and was created by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III.

Sophie Moore was a cadet captain at West Point, where she held the rank of S-3, or Operations Officer. She was also the roommate and girlfriend of Kate Kane, who was herself the Brigade Executive Officer, one rank above Sophie. The two boxed competitively at the academy, with a strong implication that Kate beat Sophie in an academy championship match before their senior year.[48] When Kate resigned from the academy due to DADT allegations, she did not rat out Sophie.[49]

In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. Sophie's history with Kate remains intact. After graduating from West Point, Sophie eventually made the rank of colonel and accepted a teaching position at Gotham Military Academy. She later reunites with Kate by chance at a charity carnival where she learns that Kate is engaged to Maggie Sawyer, and attempts to schedule a friendly dinner with Kate, to no avail.[50]

Mother Mayhem is the name of three characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Jared Morillo is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Jared Morillo is a detective who works for the Keystone City Police Department.[58]

Multiplex is a supervillain in the DC Universe.[59]

The character, created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom, first appeared as Danton Black in Firestorm #1 (March 1978) and as Multiplex in Firestorm #2 (April 1978).[60]

Within the context of the stories, Danton Black is a nuclear physicist who was Martin Stein's assistant in the designing of the Hudson Nuclear Facility. Feeling that he is not receiving his due credit, he begins stealing lab equipment. After being caught by Stein and fired, Black publicly accuses him of stealing his designs for the power plant. He breaks into the plant to steal blueprints to fabricate evidence on the same night that Stein attempts to bring it on line. Caught in the same explosion that fuses Stein and Ronnie Raymond into Firestorm, he gains the ability to split himself into identical duplicates, though those duplicates are smaller than the original, and get smaller the more he splits.[61]

Multiplex was a member of the Suicide Squad team tasked with capturing Firestorm when the hero attempted to coerce the nations of the Earth to destroy their nuclear weapons. Multiplex ran afoul of the Parasite, a dangerous villain brought along as a last resort, and appeared to be completely eaten by him.

Multiplex returned years later as an unwilling servant of the Thinker. He claimed to be the same villain that Firestorm had faced before, though he had no explanation as to how he was still alive. His powers had changed, as his duplicates were not reduced in size and appeared to be disposable.

In The New 52 reboot, during the Forever Evil storyline, Multiplex appears as a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. The Crime Syndicate sent Multiplex with Black Bison, the Hyena, Plastique and Typhoon to finish Gorilla Grodd's job. The villains ended up defeated by the Rogues, since one of their targets was the hospital that Captain Cold's sister was recuperating at.[62]

In the 2020 crossover event, Endless Winter, Multiplex appeared as one of several supervillains working for Black Adam to help fight the Frost King. Although not confirmed, it is implied that he dies at the hands of the Frost King.

Murmur is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He is one of the new Rogues to threaten the Flash, first appearing in the prestige format one-shot The Flash: Iron Heights (2001).

Dr. Michael Christion Amar, a once respected surgeon, succumbed to madness and started a killing spree to stop the voices inside his head. This spree went through Central and Keystone City and caught the eye of police officers Fred Chyre and Joe Jackam. They later tracked Amar down with the help from Central City forensic scientist, Barry Allen. Part of Amar's psychosis is the inability to stop himself from blurting out his crimes. Because of these outbursts, he is quickly convicted and sentenced to death. [63]

It is soon discovered that Amar's blood is so abnormal that lethal injection can not kill him. While incarcerated in Iron Heights prison, Amar cuts out his own tongue and sews his mouth shut so he will no longer be able to incriminate himself. Wearing a thin mask of his own design, Amar becomes known as Murmur. While in prison, Murmur creates a virus that kills the guards and prisoners and escapes during the riots it causes. He then joins Blacksmith, who helps him with creating the virus, and her rogues. Afterwards, Murmur strikes out on his own.

Murmur is one of the villains being controlled by the Top during the Rogue War story arc.

In Infinite Crisis #1, Murmur is seen working in Gotham City with the Riddler, the Body Doubles and the Fisherman in a murderous attack on Gotham police officers. He is seen in issue #7 as one member of the Secret Society of Supervillains, participating in an attack on Metropolis. A superhero army stops the Society. Murmur has also teamed up with another Batman villain - Hush - in the Man-Bat miniseries,[64] which takes place before the Infinite Crisis event.

One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Murmur has made only one full appearance in the DC Universe. In writer Gail Simone's Secret Six, he is one of the villains sent to retrieve the Get-Out-of-Hell-Free card from the team. The only other mention of the villain post-One Year Later is a framed front page newspaper of the Central City Citizen detailing Murmur's arrest and incarceration by police. It is seen on a wall of the Allen household in The Flash: Rebirth #1.

Dexter Myles is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Dexter is on duty when the Flash comes to the Flash Museum in search of a weapon called the Summoner. Dexter is happy to show Flash where the Summoner is, but is horrified to discover it is missing. Later when the Flash is battling Vandal Savage, Dexter shows up with the blueprints for the Summoner that the Flash asked for. With these blueprints, the Flash is able to defeat Savage.

Mysto the Magician Detective is a character in the DC Universe. He first appeared in Detective Comics #203 (January 1954). Mysto was a regular back-up feature in Detective Comics #203–212 (October 1954). He was dropped when Detective Comics went from 44 pages to 36.[65] Mysto's only Modern Age appearance was in Detective Comics #500 (March 1981), in a special anniversary team-up story featuring Slam Bradley, Roy Raymond, and many other detectives that had once appeared in previous issues.[66][67]

Rick Carter is a Wildcat flier piloting a small single-engine plane over the Tibetan plains when he spots three bandits chasing a lone old man. In gratitude for Carter saving the old man's life, Carter is taught ancient mysticism as well as tricks of the marketplace. Carter and his manservant Sikhi return to the United States to fight crime, using his skills as a stage magician.