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Baron Frankenstein (Earth-Two)

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Baron Frankenstein was a scientist from central Europe.

He lived in a castle with his giant servant, Ivan. During one of his experiments, Ivan was knocked unconscious and had to be revived with adrenaline. The chemical caused Ivan to become mindless and Frankensteins's cousin, Count Mettern, tried to use Ivan to kill the Baron. After Ivan failed to kill him, Frankenstein learned that it was his cousin who tried to murder him by manipulating Ivan. When Ivan recovered his mind, he dragged Mettern into the Baron's laboratory and created an explosion that destroyed Frankenstein's castle, killing Ivan and Mettern.

Shortly afterward, Mary Shelley, who was traveling in the area, heard the story and used it (with a lot of literary license) as the basis of her novel Frankenstein.


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  • This character is an adaptation of Victor Frankenstein, a character from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley published in 1818. More information can be found in the Wikipedia.org article Frankenstein.
  • This version of Baron Frankenstein, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–1986 crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the 2022-2023 crossover event Dark Crisis. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.
  • On Earth-Two, Baron Frankenstein is the real person who was the inspiration for Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. However, Frankenstein is highly fictionalized -- for example, Baron Frankenstein is not a mad scientist who wants to create life, he's just a normal scientist experimenting with electricity. So it wouldn't be entirely correct to say Baron Frankenstein is the character from the novel.
  • The character in the 1948 issue resembles the Dr. Frankenstein characters of Universal Pictures movies more than Mary Shelley's version. In the Shelley novel, Victor Frankenstein was neither a Doctor nor a Baron. It was the movies which gave him these titles, as well as a castle-based laboratory full of complex macabre steampunk tools.

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