Professor Carter Nichols
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
Batman #24, (August 1944) |
| Created by |
Joe Samachson (writer) Dick Sprang (artist) |
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| Alter ego | Carter Nichols |
| Supporting character of | Batman |
| Abilities | trained historian, psychologist, hypnotist, engineer, physicist and polymath |
Professor Carter Nichols is a fictional character, a comic book scientist published by DC Comics.
He first appeared in Batman #24 (August 1944), and was created by Joe Samachson and Dick Sprang.
Professor Nichols was created to lend some sci-fi "color" to Batman stories to both Batman and World's Finest Comics, during a period where more conventional superhero tales were out of favor and most remaining books of the genre drifted into science fiction and related genres.
In the mid-1970s the character was reintroduced in the Super Friends continuity as a mentor for the Wonder Twins, who lived with him in their civil identities of John and Joanna Flemming.
Carter Nichols is a childhood friend of Thomas Wayne. His appearances nearly always involved some form of time travel, based around his particular specialty referred to as "time travel hypnosis", a process that simulated time travel. The stories themselves are less than clear on this respect. At some point, he develops a "Time-Ray Machine" which he used to both displace and track objects through time. Professor Carter Nichols used his "time travel hypnosis" when he does therapy sessions with Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. Their first session with Carter Nichols started when Carter hypnotized Bruce into ending up in ancient Rome where he saves a man from being beaten up in the streets by some men. When Batman ends up in trouble in the past where he is caught by soldiers working for Publius Malchio, Dick Grayson has Carter hypnotize him as well so that he can save him. Dick saves him and the court jester where they beat Publius in a chariot race and exile him from Rome. Afterwards, Bruce and Dick are brought out of their hypnotic spell and return to the present.
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