Red Panzer

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Red Panzer is the name of several characters in the DC Universe.

Red Panzer I

Main Article: Helmut Streicher

Helmut Streicher was a male human where he was an inhabitant of Earth-Two where he was a member of Nazi Germany in 1943. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)

High Command came to believe him to be a mere scientist and dispatched him as a spy to America to design advanced espionage tools for their operatives in Washington. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)

In 1943, the Nazi High Command sent scientist Helmut Streicher to the United States in order to design state of the art espionage tools for Nazi spies working in Washington, D.C.. One of Helmut's first inventions was a time-scanner. With it, he could view events destined to take place in the near future. Using his time scanner, Helmut learned that the Allied Forces would win a decisive victory over the Nazis on Normandy Beach on June 6th 1944. Helmut's foresight convinced him that this invasion would spell the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. In the hopes of forestalling this inevitable future, Helmut designed a sophisticated battle suit and assumed the identity of the Red Panzer.

The Red Panzer developed a time-grappling device that could physically project himself and his flying Panzer-ship into the future. On his first attempt however, he actually crossed the dimensional barrier and arrived on Earth-One of the modern era. Almost immediately, he crossed paths with the heroine, Wonder Woman, and was astonished to see that she was "still alive" thirty years into his own future. After a brief altercation, the Panzer realized that this was in fact the dimensional counterpart to the Wonder Woman from his own era.

The Panzer activated his time-grappler, which pulled both Wonder Woman and himself back to the environment of 1943 Earth-Two. While Wonder Woman was disoriented, the Red Panzer escaped and made his way back to his lair. The time-lost Wonder Woman eventually found her 1943 duplicate, and together they faced Red Panzer, ultimately defeating him.

Red Panzer II

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Red Panzer III

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Red Panzer IV

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Overview

The original was a human with white hair and a scar on his left eye that was dead white. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)

The Red Panzer was a metallic costume suit create from indestructible armor that was stronger than even a panzer division. From his fingertips, he could fire a burst of bullets. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)

A genius, Streicher had developed a time-scanner that could see into the future which he used to change history and make advanced weaponry for Nazi Germany. He had developed a panzer-ship that was an aircraft capable of flying through the time-barrier into the future. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)

The original Red Panzer was shown to have had a pet cat that he named Friedrich. (Wonder Woman v1 #228)

Notes

• The concept of the Red Pazner was created by Mark Pasko and José Delbo where it made its first appearance in Wonder Woman v1 #228 (February, 1977).

Alternate Versions

Appearances

• Wonder Woman v1: (1977)

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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