Shazam's End-Credits Villain Has DC's Weirdest Origin Story
Seen in the end credits of 2019's Shazam!, Mister Mind is one of the hero's weirdest villains, and his origin was originally appropriately bizarre. He has been a thorn in Shazam’s side since the character’s earliest days, a murderous alien bent on world conquest… who happens to look like a caterpillar. Although his origin was revealed during his initial appearances, DC took it a step further in 1985’s All-Star Squadron #51 and retconned Mister Mind’s origin further, giving him a silly motivation for his reign of terror.
Mister Mind first appeared in 1943’s Captain Marvel Adventures #26, created by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck, the duo behind the creation of Shazam (then called Captain Marvel) a few years earlier. Mister Mind came to Earth from a distant world, bent on conquest; to that end, he created the Monster Society of Evil to fight Shazam and his allies. Shazam’s fight against the Monster Society of Evil formed the basis for one of his greatest arcs; a complex adventure story that ran for nearly two years — something unheard of in comics at the time. Mister Mind was revived along with the rest of the Shazam family in 1973 when DC acquired the characters from Fawcett, their original publisher. In 1985, DC decided to add another layer to Mister Mind’s origin, showing what made him evil in the first place. All-Star Squadron #51 was written by Roy Thomas (with co-plotter Dann Thomas), pencilled by Mike Clark and Arvell Jones, inked by Vince Colletta, colored by Carl Gafford and lettered by David Cody Weiss.
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