

With the power of the elements in his very hand, Weather Wizard has been known to be quite boastful. He can minimize his inclement attacks- causing a curtain of rain to envelop the Flash, for example-or cast broad meteorological patterns, such as blanketing a town with snow. The Weather Wizard's weapon enables him to, with a mere gesture, project “eolic energy,” creating from nothingness any climactic pattern he can imagine, from tornadoes to electrical storms to blizzards. Donning ostentatious green gear, Mardon, as the Weather Wizard, wreaks meteorological mayhem with his Weather Wand, threatening lives and property by creating a flash flood that is stopped, appropriately enough, by the Flash II, who whirls his arms into a super-windmill to force back the torrent. Mardon discovers that his scientist brother was developing a weather-control device-a wand-and follows Clyde's notes to complete the project. In “Challenge of the Weather Wizard!” by writer John Broome and penciler Carmine Infantino, low-rent crook Mark Mardon is on the lam and seeks refuge at the laboratory of his estranged brother Clyde, whom he finds dead. A blowhard in both powers and personality, the Weather Wizard stormed into the life of the Fastest Man Alive in The Flash vol.
