First Appearance: Wonder Woman 222 (1976)
Creators: Martin Pasko and Jose Delbo
Abilities: One of the wealthiest men in the world, and beloved by millions, as the owner of Dazzleland. Writer, animator, producer, voice actor. Who can also drink of the life force of his victims, and controls a seemingly endless number of clones to do his bidding.
Backstory: World renowned figure in the realm of entertainment. Wade Dazzle is famed for a plethora of things. The home of ideas. The domain of tommorow. His series of ‘Dazzleland’ theme parks. The world recognized rodent mascot for his massive multimedia empire.
In order to perfect his entertainment business, Wade Dazzle had invented a device known as the ‘duplicate manufacturer’ which could make duplicates of ANYONE so long as there was a basis. Regardless of whether or not they were real. An invention so great that he would fool people into thinking his creations were animatronics or paid actors in suits. Not realizing that the Jerry Gerbil they were speaking to was the actual Jerry Gerbil. Cloned to life with all the memories he should have if he was flesh and blood!
Unfortunately, things would take a dire turn for Wade Dazzle who would discover that he had a rare and incurable disease. Deciding the answer to this was cryogenic suspension until a cure could be found, Wade realized that the costs of maintaining such a system would bleed him dry.
Thus Wade Dazzle concieved of an elaborate plot to convert his theme parks into power plants by inventing a machine which would drain the essence from theme park goers, using them as living batteries to maintain his life. With a portion of that energy being used to power the duplicate manufacturer. Allowing him to create perfect copies of his victims who would go out into the world behaving as if they were entirely normal. Not even themselves aware that they were but copies whose every sense was being monitored by Dazzleland computers, and that they could freely be controlled with the flick of a switch.
With his preperations complete, Wade Dazzle would make copies of himself and go into cryogenic suspension. Safe in the knowledge that while he slumbered, his ever expanding empire would grow and consume. Striving to dominate the planet itself under the steely gaze of his army of clones which each ran one of his franchise theme parks.
With hundreds of thousands of people visiting a Dazzleland somewhere in the world and countless lives being sacrificed in order to maintain Wade Dazzles terrifying immortality, there seemed no limit to Wade Dazzles reach. Theater troops, superheroes, even space empires. None were safe from becoming victims of the Wade Dazzle Company.
