White Magician
The White Magician is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Thomas Asquith Randolph
It was claimed that his family the Randolph's had founded the United States with Thomas Jefferson having been among the bloodline. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
In this time, he came to operate as a superhero where in the 1940's he went by the name of Mr. Magic. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3) By the 1960's, he changed his superhero identity to the White Sorcerer and by the 1970's he was noted to had operated as a member of a team of superheroes called the Echoes of Justice. (Wonder Woman v2 #66)
He came to later retire and settled in Boston though in times of emergency he claimed he did lend an aid to people. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
Sometime between his early years as a hero to the present day The White Magician became power mad, often resorting to more sinister means of increasing his magical abilities as his magic began to wane with age. Wanting to surround himself with influential people, the White Magician began an affair with Cassie Arnold, a well known television reporter for Boston's WTBN Eyewitness News. When he first encountered Wonder Woman, who had recently become a resident of Boston as well, Diana was repulsed at the White Magician's elitist point-of-view, racism, and self-righteous attitude. Realizing that Wonder Woman could potentially be a thorn on his side he helped cause a battle between the Amazon and the dark being Eclipso. In that altercation he had hoped to control and channel their power into his own, leaving him to not only be more powerful but also the only super-being left in Boston.
After Diana's return to Earth, the White Magician later formed a pact with a demon. He exchanged his soul for ultimate power. Despite this, the White Magician performed various false heroic deeds in order for the public to continue to view him as a hero. Seeing through his deception, Diana let him know that she would stop him if he ever crossed the line to true evil. As Ares Buchanan had disappeared, the White Magician went to find aid in the Boston mob boss Antonio Sazia. When Sazia rejected his offer the White Magician killed Sazia and arranged for Sazia's chief bodyguard Paulie Longo to replace him. Paulie was more acceptable to helping the White Magician and offered his men to be transformed into meta-humans via his magic in order to defeat Wonder Woman. This proved to enrage Wonder Woman though when some of Longo's men attacked her close friend Julia Kapatelis, and kidnapped Julia's daughter. She took the battle directly toward the mob families and the White Magician himself.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Randolph had operated under a number of names over the years. During the 1940's, he had operated under the name of Mr. Magic. Meanwhile, in the 1960's, he went by the name of White Sorcerer. (Wonder Woman v2 #66) By the modern day, Asquith Randolph had operated under the identity of the White Magician. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
He claimed that he never argued with a lady. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
Randolph had a way of asking simple questions that led to people feeling like they were on the defensive as if he had uncovered a hidden weakness. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
Barbecued pork ribs were said to be a weakness of his in terms of food. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
Thomas was shown to have a low opinion of modern living. He felt that people no longer took pride in their craft. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
By the modern age, Randolph was remembered as a hero by the people of Boston who had been in semi-retirement. It was claimed that he did super-secret jobs for the government by this point. (Wonder Woman v2 #66)
In reality, he planned to rule the world as a god. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
Asquith claimed that his family had actually founded the United States with Thomas Jefferson being part of his bloodline. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
A red-headed woman named Mercedes Foster came to serve as his social secretary. (Wonder Woman v2 #66)
Cassie Arnold came to be his lover where that their 'friendship' did not effect her status as a journalist. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
Powers and abilities
The White Magician is a high-level sorcerer, capable of using his magic in a variety of effects.
Through his art, he was able to tap into the mystical energies that flowed through all things. Through this means, he was able to achieve a variety of magical effects. (Wonder Woman v2 #66)
He could cast a fear spell that left his targets filled with terror. Asquith could also use a distance spell to see far off locations. Randolph could conjure weapons for his use such as rifles that he used to hunt others. In one case, he was said to had killed a Daxamite with the rifle. For escape, he could cast a spell to slip out of phase from the universe. Such dimensional travel though was said to leave him with a splitting headache. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
He is several hundred years old and cast an eternal youth spell on himself so that his true age could never be revealed.
In his demonic form, he had the physical strength, size and power of a high-lord demon, with large claws for hands.
His magical powers came to fade over time which necessitated his search for means to feed them. Some cases involved him turning people into mystical batteries to empower himself. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
His house in Boston was said to had been legendary. It was said to had been centuries old but felt brand new as if it was recently redone. Within the manor, there was a library that contained books since before colonial times. Rare books dating to the times of the Greek people were even among its contents. The house also had a Green House in a separate wing that was used by Asquith for both his experiments and for his kitchen. It had been built in the 1920's after his family decided not to be dependent on others for their vegetables. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
It was noted that he was rich and had a considerable fortune. (Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3)
During the 1970s, he came to be a member of a team of superheroes called the Echoes of Justice. (Wonder Woman v2 #66)
Notes
- The White Magician was created by William Messner-Loebs where he made his first appearance in Wonder Woman Annual v2 #3 (1992).
Appearances
- Wonder Woman Annual v2: (1992)
- Wonder Woman v2:
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