A super-villain, and an enemy of Shazam and the Justice League.
Description[]
Black Adam is a tall man of muscular build with short black hair and pointed ears. He wears the same style of costume as Shazam (colored black instead of red) but without a cape. In character, he is harshly spoken and contemptuous of others, and has the intention of either occupying the throne of the Rock of Eternity or subjugating the Earth, or both.
He is the nemesis of Shazam and the Wizard and has the same powers as them combined which would confirm that they are magical in origin. They can be physical (flight, super-strength, invulnerability), can take the form of blasts of lightning or can be like magic spells. Examples of the latter are: suspending people in mid-air and spinning them around, binding people with magical restraints, creating impenetrable barriers, releasing djinn and other evils from imprisonment in the Rock, and transforming those djinn into large monsters. As Adam goes into action, he crackles with lightning except that it is black tinged with yellow in contrast to the bright, white lightning of Shazam and the Wizard.
According to the Wizard, Adam has challenged for the throne of the Rock many centuries before and so must be very old and is likely to be immortal. When he seizes the throne in the present, he boasts that the "powers of eternity/Eternity" are his to command. After this brief success, Shazam and the Wizard expel him to the remote past, but he still manages to reappear on Earth a short time afterwards with greater powers - he says his magic is twice as strong - without explanation. At this later time, the combination of Shazam and Superman cannot overcome Adam, and it takes more than half-a-dozen members of the Justice League to contain him. Only Constantine's magic is finally able to dispose of him.
Appearances[]
- 1. Classic Rock
- 4. Abate and Switch
- 44. System Error
Links[]
- Black Adam at Wikipedia
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