BASE OF OPERATIONS: mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE:
(earliest available reference)
RICHARD DRAGON, KUNG FU FIGHTER # 18
as a foe of Green Lantern:
GREEN LANTERN 2nd series # 116
(May, 1979)
"My Ring... My Enemy!"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Eyes: none
Hair: bald
KNOWN RELATIVES: Manuel Ojo (father, deceased)
HISTORY:
The villain known as Professor Ojo was the son of an assistant in an early atomic energy facility. Poor safety standards exposed Manuel Ojo to massive doses of hard radiation. His son was born without eyes and Manuel Ojo died sometime later from radiation poisioning.
Despite his blindness, the youth had tremendous success in school. With his
genius he eventually received a doctorate from a major university. Devoting
himself to research, Ojo created an artificial sight device but kept his
findings to himself. He disappeared soon afterwards.
[GL2 # 118]
Professor Ojo eventually became associated with the League of Assassians, a
part of a larger criminal organization headed by Ra's al Ghul. Ojo's insane
hatred of atomic energy led him to steal an atomic submarine. He came into
conflict with G.O.O.D. (Global Organization of Organized Defense) operatives
Richard Dragon and Benjamin Turner. The two martial artists helped recover
the stolen submarine.
[RD:KFF # 18, GL2 # 118]
Ojo later captured and brainwashed Benjamin Turner into forgetting his past
and becoming the assassian known as the Bronze Tiger. He hired Turner out
for a short time before the Bronze Tiger fought Batman.
[WhW85 # 19]
Months later, from his arctic retreat, Ojo turned his attention to Star City. He placed a hovering eye over the city which caught the interest of Green Arrow. Assuming the hovering eye was put there for malevolent purposes, the archer shot a few arrows towards the eye to no effect. Green Lantern Hal Jordan was unable to assist Green Arrow. Difficulties with his power ring prevented Jordan from investigating the floating eye.
A few hours later, Green Arrow joined with Jordan's temporary replacement as
Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, in his attack on the eye. Professor Ojo retaliated by firing a laser blast at the archer. In another patrol of the
city, Gardner would destroy the floating eye.
[GL2 # 116]
Professor Ojo had other eyes to spy with. One such eye attacked Green Lantern and Green Arrow in Gotham City's Arkham Asylum. Jordan attempted to blast the eye, but the orb casted a field of total darkness. Jordan tried once more to hit the eye, but found he had been duped. A weapon placed outside the darkness field had decoyed him while the eye continued on its mission. The eye brought Alexander Tuttle, the Crumbler, with it.
Green Arrow returned to Star City to resume his search for the eye and the Crumbler. A clerk at an optometrist's store raised his suspicions. The emerald archer "convinced" the clerk to lead him to the basement hideout of Professor Ojo.
The villain planned for Green Arrow's arrival with a battery of radiation lamps set to blind the archer by working directly on his optic nerves. Half a dozen arrows took out the threat.
A brief skirmish with Ojo and the Crumbler left Green Arrow at their mercy
but Green Lantern arrived to save his friend's life. Professor Ojo once more
used his advanced technology to create "mega-darkness" in the room and the
villains made good their escape.
[GL2 # 117]
Professor Ojo upgraded the Crumbler's power glove but was angered his ally used the glove for personal revenge. The Crumbler had attempted to kill his father but was stopped by Green Lantern. Professor Ojo had other plans for the Crumbler.
The villains planned to destroy the atomic power plant built by the Crumbler's father. Alexander Tuttle had hated his father for years because of his father's refusual to recognize his son as a person. Professor Ojo wished to show the world the devastating effect of radiation by slaughtering millions when the radioactive materials were released from the plant.
The Crumbler used the glove to cut through the earth under the power plant.
There, under the direction of Ojo, the Crumbler disintegrated a large storage
container for radioactive materials. The wind carried a cloud of radioactive
gases but Ojo hadn't counted on Green Lantern's involvement. The ring
wielder gathered the radioactive gases and thereby saved the population for
hundreds of miles around. Professor Ojo tried to make yet another escape but
was captured by Green Arrow.
[GL2 # 118]
The current activities of Professor Ojo has yet to be revealed.
CREATIVE TEAM:
(From GL2 # 116)
KNOWN APPEARANCES:
Just a minor note here. Professor Ojo was referenced in the original Who's Who series but an entry never appeared.
