Icicle (comics)

Icicle
Joar (on top) and Cameron Mahkent. Respective arts by Irwin Hasen and Alan Davis.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	(Joar) All-American Comics # 90 (October 1947) (Cameron) Infinity, Inc. # 34 (January 1987)
Created by	(Joar) Robert Kanigher Irwin Hasen (Cameron) Roy Thomas Dann Thomas Todd McFarlane
In-story information
Alter ego	Dr. Joar Mahkent Cameron Mahkent
Team affiliations	(Joar) Injustice Society (Cameron) The Society Injustice Society Injustice League Suicide Squad
Notable aliases	(Cameron) Icicle, Jr.
Abilities	(Joar) average athlete and hand-to-hand combatant; cold ray gun; special costume to protect from gun. (Cameron) Cold manipulation and generation

Icicle is the name of two fictional DC Comics supervillains.

The Joar Mahkent version of Icicle first appeared in All-American Comics #90 and was created by Robert Kanigher and Irwin Hasen.

The Cameron Mahkent version of Icicle first appeared in Infinity, Inc. #34 and was created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, and Todd McFarlane.

When noted European physicist Dr. Joar Mahkent arrived in America with his latest scientific discovery, spectators at dockside were astonished to witness the luxury liner upon which Mahkent was traveling suddenly frozen solid in Gotham Harbor.

Investigating this phenomenon, the original Green Lantern (Alan Scott) was shocked by the sight of Dr. Mahkent shot dead in his stateroom, apparently the victim of Lanky Leeds, a notorious racketeer who was reportedly traveling on the same ship. Thus, when the bizarrely costumed criminal known as the Icicle appeared upon the scene later that same day, wielding a unique weapon capable of instantly freezing solid any moisture in the air, Green Lantern presumed he was actually Lanky Leeds, who had stolen Doctor Mahkent's invention.

After several frustrating encounters, Green Lantern ultimately unmasked the Icicle as Joar Mahkent himself, who had, in fact, murdered Lanky Leeds, using his cold ray gun to temporarily disguise Leed's face as his own. Attempting to escape from Green Lantern, the Icicle leaped off a 20-story building and apparently plunged to his death in the Gotham River far below.

Actually, the Icicle survived his fall into the river, and returned to plague the Emerald Gladiator time and again, eventually becoming a member of the Wizard's second Injustice Society of the World which succeeded in briefly hypnotizing the JSA. During their Patriotic Crimes, the Icicle stole the Washington Monument. Later he was a founding member of the Crime Champions of Two Earths, along with the Wizard and the Fiddler, which teamed up with a trio of crooks from Earth-1 after the Fiddler accidentally discovered a way to travel between worlds. The Icicle committed a million-dollar robbery on Earth-2 and escaped Hourman and Doctor Fate. He was defeated by Doctor Fate while robbing a museum on Earth-1. The JLA and JSA were captured and imprisoned in cages in space by the Crime Champions though, but escaped with the help of the Green Lanterns. All the villains were then captured.