Who the heck is Electro?

[MatterEaterLad]

I'll give it a shot, but since he wasn't called Electro in the first comic, and you have the story, look it over.

[MatterEaterLad]

Its very odd that he was made into villain in the second tale, even if only in a dream.

[dto]

Weird, it turns out he is a creation of Luthor to lure Superman off of Earth and his second appearance is only in a red-k induced dream.

Just another Luthor creation?  Too bad -- I had wondered if Electro was distantly related to this guy:

http://www.toonopedia.com/reddy_k.htm

 

[MatterEaterLad]

A strange set of circumstances, the electric being is not real in the first story (Binder (?) written and a re-tread of an earlier story), a Luthor creation.

The second story is pretty good (Siegel) and the being is only on the jury in a Superman nightmare.  I wonder if the artist (Mooney) just saw the original story, though the thing looked cool and gave it the name Electro?

[Continental Op]

Grant Morrison obviously remembered those stories since he had Quintum communicating with a skeletal, otherdimensional race called the "electrokind" in ALL-STAR SUPERMAN...

[carmine]

thanks for the info guys.

[Uncle Mxy]

Electro was also a villain in the 1977 Batman animated series by Filmation.  He was some sort of alien (but looked more like a robot) in a flying saucer with a shrinking ray and mind control ray.  Batman and Robin escape from a corked bottle while shrunk.  Sound familiar? 

http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/25766-Bite-Sized.html

[Permanus]

Why would a guy in a flying saucer with a shrink ray call himself "Electro", of all things? Because his gadgets run on electricity?