BASE OF OPERATIONS: Chicago
FIRST APPEARANCE:
behind the scenes:
ACTION COMICS # 608
(July 16, 1988)
"Where the Heck is Green Lantern?"
in person:
ACTION COMICS # 612
(August 9, 1988)
"Mind Over Matter"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 3'
Weight: unknown
Hair: blond
Eyes: unknown
KNOWN RELATIVES: none
HISTORY:
A bitter, resentful man, the villain only known as Mind Games claimed he was constantly ridiculed and put down by women and his colleagues refused to take his work seriously. A man of great intellect and power, he created a ray gun and projecting dish to claim what he thought should, by all rights, be his.
[ACTION COMICS # 612]
Sending a beam out at random, Mind Games struck Morris Levine, a married man and father of two. Levine went on a killing rampage, starting at an antique swords and weaponry store. He attacked patrons at a local diner before he was faced by Green Lantern Hal Jordan.
[ACTION COMICS # 609-610]
In a note sent to the investigating detective, Lieutenant Rensaleer, Mind Games claimed responsibility and demanded five hundred thousand dollars if his price was not paid. Though Mind Games gave a six P.M. deadline, the detective thought it was a sick joke and threw the note away.
[ACTION COMICS # 610]
Former Green Lantern Arisia of Graxos IV almost found herself the next victim of Mind Games' scheme. A Chicago hotel employee went on a rampage, threatening her, before she could subdue him.
Green Lantern took both of them to the police where he met with Lieutenant Rensaleer. Twenty-seven rampages had occured since Mind Games' six o'clock deadline and Rensaleer was now taking the discarded note seriously. Unfortunately for the detective, Mind Games had become agitated by the lack of response the authorities had shown to his threat. Hoping to drive his message across, Mind Games' next target was police headquarters and as fate would have it, Green Lantern himself was struck.
[ACTION COMICS # 611]
Rensaleer managed to protect himself until Mind Games' influence wore off but by that time, the villain had made a greater threat. Rather than choosing one person at a time, the next attack would drive ten percent of the city's population temporarily insane for a two minute period. Though he was unable to block the broadcast, Green Lantern was able to trace it to a projection dish miles outside of the city. Destroying the dish and the gun that fired the force at the dish for broadcast, the ring wielder went inside the bunker-like building which housed the weapon. The hero did not realize Mind Games himself was the source of the mind-altering power.
[ACTION COMICS # 612]
Mind Games ran Green Lantern through a series of emotions: hate, passion, jealousy and finally fear. Unfortunately for Mind Games, he did not realize Green Lantern was completely without fear and therefore, the emotion had absolutely no effect on the emerald gladiator. Green Lantern recovered immediately. A strong punch defeated the power hungry menace.
[ACTION COMICS # 613]
The current activities of Mind Games have yet to be revealed.
CREATIVE TEAM:
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