Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana is a fictional comic book supervillain. Created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, he first appeared opposite superhero Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940) by Fawcett Comics. Sivana was soon established as Captain Marvel's archenemy and most frequent foe, a role that he continues to hold to this day in his appearances in DC Comics, who eventually acquired the rights to those characters from Fawcett. Whiz Comics #2, the first appearance of Captain Marvel, the companys most popular character. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to the date or issue of a characters first appearance. ... Whiz Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book anthology series, which was published by Fawcett Comics from February 1940 to June 1952. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Jerry Ordway. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Bill Parker was an American comic book writer. ... Clarence Charles Beck, (June 8, 1910-November 22, 1989), was an American cartoonist. ... The Fearsome Five is a fictional group of comic book supervillains from DC Comics. ... The Secret Society of Super Villains (SSoSV) is a group of comic book villains that exist in the DC Universe. ... The Monster Society of Evil is a fictional team of supervillains published first by Fawcett Comics, then by DC Comics. ... FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypal supervillains and his arch-enemies The Fantastic Four (in background). ... Bill Parker was an American comic book writer. ... Clarence Charles Beck, (June 8, 1910-November 22, 1989), was an American cartoonist. ... This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ... For other uses, see Captain Marvel. ... Whiz Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book anthology series, which was published by Fawcett Comics from February 1940 to June 1952. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Whiz Comics #2, the first appearance of Captain Marvel, the companys most popular character. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ...

Overview

Character history

Sivana is a short, bald, self-described "mad scientist" with a penchant for developing unusual technologies, and who often plots to do away with Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family, but is often thwarted in his plans. His trademark phrases are "Curses! Foiled again!" and his mocking laughter "Heh! Heh! Heh!" He also coined the insulting name "Big Red Cheese" to refer to Captain Marvel, a name which the Captain's friends have adopted to light-heartedly tease him with. Caucasian, male, aging, crooked teeth, messy hair, lab coat, spectacles/goggles, dramatic posing — one popular stereotype of a mad scientist. ... The Marvel Family is a group of fictional characters, a team of superheroes in the Fawcett Comics and DC Comics universes. ...

Sivana, with his children Sivana, Jr and Georgia. Art by C.C. Beck.

The Golden Age Sivana was a single father with four children: good-natured adult offspring Beautia and Magnificus, and evil teenagers 'Georgia and Thaddeus, Jr. (aka Sivana, Jr.) Sivana, Sivana, Jr., and Georgia constituted the supervillain group The Sivana Family, the evil counterpoint to the Marvel Family. Magnificus and Beautia, however, were not enemies to the Marvels; in fact, Beautia has an unrequited crush on Captain Marvel (who she does not realize is really an adolescent boy, Billy Batson). Recently, his family has been reintroduced into modern continuity (see below for more details). Image File history File links Sivanafamily. ... Image File history File links Sivanafamily. ... Clarence Charles Beck, (June 8, 1910-November 22, 1989), was an American cartoonist. ...

Publication history

Doctor Sivana appeared in well over half of all of the Golden Age Captain Marvel comic stories, after having deduced Captain Marvel's dual identity as boy radio broadcaster Billy Batson early on. Depicted as a brilliant, if evil, scientist, Sivana used all manner of unusual inventions and techniques against the Marvels. Along with the Marvel Family, Sivana entered "publishing limbo" in 1953, following a ruling in the National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications court case finding that Captain Marvel was an illegal infringement of Superman. Holdings Fawcett Publications Captain Marvel comic strips proven to have plagiarized those of National Comics Superman character. ... Superman is a fictional character and one of the most famous and popular comic book superheroes of all time. ...

In 1972, National Comics (today DC Comics) acquired the rights to the Captain Marvel characters, relaunching them in a new title, Shazam!, the following February. The characters' twenty-year absence from publication was explained as the result of Doctor Sivana and the Sivana Family having trapped the Marvels, their friends, and, by accident, themselves in a sphere of "Suspendium", a compound which kept them in suspended animation from 1953 until 1973. DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Suspended animation is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination. ...

Sivana continued to appear in Shazam! related stories through the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series in 1985. He was reintroduced by Roy Thomas and Tom Mandrake in the miniseries Shazam! The New Beginning in 1987. This Sivana was the same mad scientist that the previous one had been, except that he only had two children (Beautia and Magnificus), and was Billy Batson's step-uncle. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ...

Jerry Ordway revised the character of Sivana for his 1994 graphic novel The Power of Shazam! and the resulting ongoing series, and this revision has been retained in all following DC publications. The modern Sivana, in addition to being a mad scientist, was also a powerful and influential tycoon (a la Lex Luthor of the Superman comics). The former CEO of his own Sivana Industries, Sivana's corrupted dealings and crossing of Captain Marvel led to his own destruction and his intense hatred of the Marvel Family. The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Ordway. ... The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Jerry Ordway. ... Lex Luthor is a fictional DC Comics supervillain. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...

After The Power of Shazam! series ended in 1999, Sivana was rarely seen until Outsiders #13 -15 (August-October 2004), when he became the leader of the supervillain group the Fearsome Five. He freed surviving members Gizmo (comics), Mammoth, Psimon and Jinx from prison, and used his genius to reconstitute Shimmer, who had been turned into glass and shattered by Psimon. The evil scientist appears briefly in DC's Infinite Crisis. Sivana also recently appeared along with Lex Luthor in the four-issue 2005 limited series Superman/Shazam: First Thunder by Judd Winick and Joshua Middleton, which depicts the first meeting between those two superheroes. The Outsiders are fictional characters, a DC Comics superhero group. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Fearsome Five is a fictional group of comic book supervillains from DC Comics. ... Gizmo, from Outsiders #13, (August 2004). ... Species Mammuthus africanavus   African mammoth Mammuthus columbi   Columbian mammoth Mammuthus exilis   Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus jeffersonii   Jeffersonian mammoth Mammuthus trogontheri   Steppe mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis Mammuthus primigenius   Woolly mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorae   Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks... Category: Possible copyright violations ... Jinx, from Outsiders #15 (October 2004). ... Shimmer, from the cover of Outsiders #13, August 2004. ... Infinite Crisis was a seven-issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics. ... Lex Luthor is a fictional DC Comics supervillain. ... The limited series is a term referring to a comic book series with a set finite number of issues. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Joshua Middleton is a comic book artist currently signed exclusive to DC Comics. ...

In the currently running 52, Sivana was abducted to Oolong Island, a tropical paradise run by Intergang where he and many other DC Universe "mad scientists" are allowed to live a hedonistic lifestyle while creating the inventions of their wildest dreams and pitting them against one another. Beautia, Magnificus, Georgia, and Thaddeus Jr. of the Sivana Family were reintroduced, along with their mother, and Dr Sivana's wife, Venus Sivana, in 52 Week Twenty-Six (November 1, 2006). While Georgia and Thaddeus Jr. seem to be the same, Beautia, Magnificus and Venus act like spoiled elites, caring more about their appearance than anything else (except for Venus' love of Dr. Sivana). 52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics, which debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. ... Intergang is a fictional organized crime organization in Superman comics. ... 52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics, which debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

Concurrently, in the Outsiders series (the events in which take place a year after those in 52), Sivana has employed Monsieur Mallah and the Brain in a plan to smuggle metahuman brainwashed clones as smart weapons, and is currently facing off against the Outsiders. One Year Later event logo. ... Monsieur Mallah is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. ... The Brain is a DC Comics supervillain. ... Metahuman is a term to describe superhumans in the DC Universe. ...

Other media

Doctor Sivana first appeared outside of comics in live-action, as a villain in Legends of the Superheroes (1979), played by Howard Morris. He later appeared as a regular villain, occasionally with Sivanna Jr. and Georgia, in the 1981 Shazam! Saturday morning cartoon, aired as one-half of The Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam! Sivana does not appear in any other animated form, although he appears as a villain in issue 15 of the Justice League Unlimited comic book, when he tried to rebuild Mister Atom. Legends of the Superheroes was an umbrella title for two one-hour Hanna-Barbara TV specials based on the Super Friends cartoon show that aired on NBC in January 1979. ... Howard Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor and director. ... The Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam! was a NBC Saturday morning cartoon produced by Filmation Studios in 1981. ... Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) was an American animated television series produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... Mister Atom is a fictional comic book supervillian, a radioactive robot who is regularly seen as an enemy of Captain Marvel. ...

In Superman: Red Son, Dr. Sivana briefly appears as a United States defector to Superman's Russia. Spoiler warning: Superman: Red Son is a comic book published by DC Comics unveiled under their Elseworlds imprint in April, 2003. ...

External link

• Doctor Sivana's "Who's Who" file at The Marvel Family Web