Abra Kadabra (comics)
| Abra Kadabra | |
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Art by Oscar Jimenez and Anibal Rodriguez.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The Flash #128 (May 1962) |
| Created by |
John Broome Carmine Infantino |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Citizen Abra |
| Species | Human |
| Place of origin | New Earth |
| Team affiliations |
The Rogues Secret Society of Super Villains |
| Notable aliases | Abhararakadhararbarakh, Dr. Petrou, Professor Zoom |
| Abilities | Master sorcerer Previously: Wielded magic-like futuristic technology |
Abra Kadabra (Citizen Abra) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, the character made his first appearance in The Flash #128 (May 1962).
Citizen Abra is from the 64th century, at a time when science has made stage magic obsolete. However, he desires a career as a performing magician, so he goes back in time to find an audience to entertain after stealing a time machine and inventing a device to paralyze the guards, and soon clashes with the Flash (Barry Allen). He has a hypnotic device that makes people clap regardless of their thoughts, which he uses to force applause from audiences even when they don't applaud his magic tricks. He finds his magic is being overlooked, so decides to involve himself in important events. When the Flash tries to stop a crime he is committing, he makes the Flash clap, enabling him to escape. He is able to send the Flash into space after challenging him to a fight at the theatre, but the Flash is able to change the course of the planetoid he is on so he is sent back to Earth, and finds Kadabra took his left-behind costume, meaning he can follow the impulses, and Kadabra is jailed. But he hypnotizes the Governor using a ray from a device made out of pots and pans, to let him out, and starts staging a puppet show where the Flash is defeated by a puppet called Captain Cream-Puff. When the Flash passes a poster advertising Kadabra, he is turned into a puppet and used in the performance. But the Scarlet Speedster is able to restore himself slightly using the organic matter in his brain, which was not transformed, and then reverse Kadabra's ray so he is restored completely. He again defeats Kadabra.
In one of his many confrontations with the Flash, Abra Kadabra's technology is damaged and his body becomes insubstantial and wraith-like. After his body is returned to normal, he is captured by a bounty hunter named Peregrine, and returned to his native century to serve a death sentence, although he is saved by the Flash before he can be executed. Shortly after returning to the 21st century, during the Underworld Unleashed storyline, he forgoes his technological implements and tricks five rogues into selling their souls to Neron so he can gain genuine magical powers. Abra Kadabra later kidnapped Linda Park, the girlfriend of Wally West (Barry Allen's protégé and successor), during their wedding and erases her from history, though he is ultimately defeated with the help of Walter West, Wally's counterpart from an alternate dimension.
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