Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia of Villains

Name: The Crime Master of Time
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #53 (1952)
Creators: H.G Peter and Robert Kanigher
Abilities: Time travel. The ability to rip people from different points of time, take on their appearance and place in the time stream, leaving the original trapped at some random point in time.


Backstory: Tibro was a time criminal from the year 2300. The greatest criminal of his era. With none of his time period aware of how he was capable of committing such crazy crimes and escaping from the police whenever he was apprehended.

In truth, Tibro possessed the ‘time beam’ a mind controlled beam of green light which would displace a target from their place in time, sending them lost to some other location in the distant past, allowing him to take their form and place within the time stream to commit his dastardly crimes before vanishing in a puff of smoke. Those he had taken being lost to time.

Using this method, he could commit numerous crimes with impunity. Those whose forms he had taken being left to their sorrowful fate. Though the self proclaimed Crime Master of Time could have effortlessly returned them with but a thought had he but wished.

But by displacing multiple people across time, it allowed Tibro the means of popping up in different time periods in different forms in order to cover his tracks and avoid detection.

For Tibro would seek out priceless treasures which would be of incalculable value in the future and artifacts lost to time that would grant him untold wealth and power. Uncaring who was affected by his criminal malevolence.

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