Captain Cold

Captain Cold
Captain Cold. Art by Brian Bolland.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Showcase #8 (June 1957)
Created by	John Broome Carmine Infantino
In-story information
Alter ego	Leonard Snart
Team affiliations	Injustice League Legends of tomorrow Rogues Secret Society of Super Villains Suicide Squad Justice League
Notable aliases	The Man who Mastered Absolute Zero, Leonard Wynters, Blue Iceman
Abilities	Master tactician and strategist Extensive knowledge of cryonics Possesses a 'cold gun' that allows him to freeze objects to absolute zero temperatures

Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Captain Cold is the leader of the Rogues, a loose criminal association, and he also has served as a bitter enemy to the Silver Age Flash Barry Allen, both enemy and grudging friend to the third Flash Wally West, and one of the killers of the fourth Flash Bart Allen.

IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains Of All Time List ranked Captain Cold as #27. Actor Wentworth Miller has portrayed the character in The CW's live action Arrowverse.

Captain Cold first appeared in Showcase #8 (June 1957) and was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino.

Leonard Snart was raised by an abusive father and took refuge with his grandfather, who worked in an ice truck. When his grandfather died, Snart grew tired of his father's abuse and set out to start a criminal career. Snart joined up with a group of small-time thieves and in planning out a robbery, each was issued a gun and a visor to protect their eyes against the flashes of gunfire. This visor design would later be adapted by Snart into his trademark costume. In recent years he has added a radio receiver to them which picks up the police band to monitor local law enforcement. Snart and the other thugs were captured by the Flash and imprisoned. Snart decided to go solo, but knew he had to do something about the local hero, the Flash.

Snart read an article that theorized that the energy emissions of a cyclotron could interfere with the Flash's speed. He designed a weapon to harness that power and broke into a cyclotron lab, intending to use the device to charge up his experimental gun. As he was finishing his experiment, a security guard surprised Snart. Intending to use his gun only to scare the guard, he inadvertently pulled the trigger and discovered that his weapon had been altered in a way he had never imagined. The moisture in the air around the guard froze. Intrigued by this twist of fate, Snart donned a parka and the aforementioned visor and declared himself to be Captain Cold - the man who mastered absolute zero. Snart then committed a series of non-lethal crimes, on one occasion placing the city in suspended animation in an attempt to force Iris West to marry him as he had fallen in love with her when he saw her in the prison, but the Flash got through a wall of ice and was able to reverse the process. He later fell in love with a newscaster, and competed with Heat Wave (in his first appearance) over her in a crime spree, but they were both beaten by the Flash. But after Barry Allen's death, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Captain Cold became a bounty hunter with his sister Lisa, the Golden Glider.