Theodore Carrigan (Earth-One)

Doctor Zodiac
Mainstream Universe‎, 1950s-1986
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Real Name	Theodore Carrigan
Main Alias	Doctor Zodiac
Other Aliases	Cash Carrigan
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Public Identity
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Con-Artist
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Brown
Origin
Universe	Earth-One
Creators	Leo Dorfman · Curt Swan
First Appearance	World's Finest #160 (September, 1966)
Last Appearance	World's Finest #288 (February, 1983)

Doctor Zodiac was an enemy of Superman and Batman

History

Theodore "Cash" Carrigan was a con-artist who used to work in different carnivals until he was uncovered by Superman, Batman and Robin. Forced to leave the "hoaxing" business, Carrigan found a mysterious zodiac book which he stole in order to get revenge against Batman, Robin and Superman. Carrigan adopted the alias of Doctor Zodiac and started a successful crime spree. However, Carrigan didn't know that everything had been planned by the heroes, who showed up during one of Carrigan's crimes and captured the entire gang of Doctor Zodiac.

Carrigan eventually returned and sought to steal some ancient Atlantean Zodiac coins in order to gain the powers of all the zodiac signs and his plan was almost successful, had he not been stopped by Batman and Superman.

Madame Zodiac

After his defeat, Zodiac was released from prison by Madame Zodiac and they started working for a dark entity. Soon, Zodiac became romantically involved with Madame Zodiac and the two of them started plotting against Batman and Superman. However, when he realized that the dark entity wanted to possess Batman's body to be unleased on Earth, Zodiac started having second thoughts about his involvement in the affair. When Superman found their lair, Dr. Zodiac helped him defeat Madame Zodiac and the dark entity. However, before the dark entity was defeated, he attacked Dr. Zodiac, leaving him in an unconscious state. Dr. Zodiac was presumably sent to prison again, as he was never seen again.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Deception

Notes

• This version of Doctor Zodiac, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.

Related

• 7 Appearances of Theodore Carrigan (Earth-One)
• 1 Images featuring Theodore Carrigan (Earth-One)
• Quotations by or about Theodore Carrigan (Earth-One)
• Character Gallery: Theodore Carrigan (Earth-One)

Footnotes

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