Baron Blitzkrieg

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Publication information
Baron Blitzkrieg
Hourman vs. Baron Blitzkrieg. Art by Rick Hoberg.
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	World's Finest Comics #246 (August-September 1977)
Created by	Gerry Conway Don Heck
In story information
Alter ego	Reiter
Team affiliations	Shadowspire Secret Society of Super Villains
Abilities	Superhuman strength, optical energy beams, flight.

Baron Blitzkrieg is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe, originally residing on Earth-Two. He first appeared in World's Finest Comics #246 (August-September 1977). His first several appearances marked an antagonistic relationship with Wonder Woman and he later faced both the Amazon and Superman towards the end of World War II.

1 Fictional character biography
- 1.1 One Year Later
2 Powers and abilities
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] Fictional character biography

He is a frequent opponent of the heroic All-Star Squadron, a band of costumed adventurers who fight domestic and foreign menaces during World War II. Baron Blitzkrieg was originally an especially vicious German army officer who was blinded when a concentration camp prisoner threw acid in his face. German scientists experiment on Blitzkrieg, giving him superhuman strength, invulnerability, optical energy beams and the ability to fly. However, each of these abilities are manifested one at a time and only with training is he able to incorporate them together.

Baron Blitzkrieg is the leader of Shadowspire and allied with Vandal Savage's organization known as Symbolix. Together, they incorporate experimental research which produces the superhero Damage. The Baron becomes a recurring foe in Damage's series, starting with issue number three.

During the JSA tie-in to Infinite Crisis, it is revealed that Baron Blitzkrieg has joined the Society. The Philadelphia heroine known as Liberty Belle, who gets her powers from the Liberty Bell, attempts to jumpstart her abilities by ringing the bell. However, due to the recent supposed death of Uncle Sam (who has recently returned in A Brave New World), her powers are unfocused, and Blitzkrieg is thought to have been killed by the sonic shockwaves. He appears again in Infinite Crisis #7 where he is killed by Superboy-Prime who fries the Baron's head with his heat vision.

[edit] One Year Later

A new, Nazi-themed speedster supervillain named Baroness Blitzkrieg recently appeared as a member of The Fourth Reich, a team of Nazi-themed supervillains in Justice Society of America. Brutal in her killings, she runs through her victims and turns them into pulp. Her connection to the Baron, if any, save for the same purple lightning symbol, has yet to be revealed.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Baron Blitzkrieg has enhanced strength, agility and endurance. He wears body armour that offers some protection from physical attack. He has weak heat vision and he can fly.