A
villain published by
DC Comics. The
Mirror Master first
appeared in
The Flash #105 in 1959.
Three men have used the identity of the Mirror Master in the
pursuit of criminal activities. The original Mirror Master
was an ex-convict named Sam Scudder. Scudder was serving time
in prison and working in the prison workshop making mirrors. One
day after Scudder had been working on making a new kind of mirror,
he was repremanded by an angry prison guard for wasting time. After
the guard left, Scudder discovered that the mirror had somehow
kept the image of the guards face on its surface. Scudder kept this
knowledge to himself and after his release continued his research
into mirrors finally designing a costume and a number of mirrors
with special abilities and began a crime spree as the Mirror Master.
Scudder's activities put him into conflict with the Silver Age
Flash. The two clashed on many occasions with Scudder
using special mirrors that allowed him to create solid three dimensional
holograms that obeyed his commands, mirrors that allowed him
to teleport from place to place, and even mirrors that allowed him
to turn his opponents into mirrors. The Flash always defeated
the Mirror Master who became one of the founding members of the
Flash's Rogues Gallery.
During the Crisis on Infinte Earths, a group of villains traveled
into the distant past to stop the Oan Krona from glimpsing the
start of the universe and creating the multiverse. The Mirror
Master along with a number of other villains found the device that
Krona had created and could have destroyed it, but for their own
bickering. Sam Scudder and the other villains were killed by Krona.
For a time, Scudder's old partner in the Rogues Gallery, Captain
Boomerang adopted the identity of the Mirror Master so that he
could participate in a crime spree while a member of the government
agency the Suicide Squad. Captain Boomerang's activities were
discovered by the leaders of the Suicide Squad and he was taken
out of commission.
Still later a third man named Evan McCullogh took the identity of
the Mirror Master. A mercenary, McCullogh used the Mirror Master
equipment to complete contracts for the people who hired him. McCullogh
was first seen when he was hired to attack the environmentalist
hero Animal Man. He later helped Animal Man get revenge on those
who had killed his family.
The latest Mirror Master was approached by Abra Kadabra and offered
great power along with the original members of the Rogues Gallery. They
accepted and found that they were part of a plot by the demon Neron
to trap the latest person to wear the mantle of the Flash Wally
West. The five were killed and they were brought back to life
with great powers but no souls. They were eventually returned to
normal when the Flash defeated Neron and had him return them to
life.