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Abra Kadabra is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe and an enemy of the Flash. He first appeared in ''Flash'' #128 (May 1962) and was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino. ==Fictional character biography== Abra Kadabra is from the 64th century, at a time when science has made stage magic obsolete. However, he desires a career as a performing magician, so he goes back in time to find an audience to entertain after stealing a time machine and inventing a device to paralyze the guards, and soon clashes with the Flash (Barry Allen). He has a hypnotic device that makes people clap regardless of their thoughts, which he uses to force applause from audiences even when they don't applaud his magic tricks. He finds his magic is being overlooked, so decides to involve himself in important events. When the Flash tries to stop a crime he is committing, he makes the Flash clap, enabling him to escape. He is able to send the Flash into space after challenging him to a fight at the theatre, but the Flash is able to change the course of the planetoid he is on so he is sent back to Earth, and finds Kadabra took his left-behind costume, meaning he can follow the impulses, and Kadabra is jailed. But he hypnotizes the Governor using a ray from a device made out of pots and pans, to let him out, and starts staging a puppet show where the Flash is defeated by a puppet called Captain Cream-Puff. When the Flash passes a poster advertising Kadabra, he is turned into a puppet and used in the performance. But the Scarlet Speedster is able to restore himself slightly using the organic matter in his brain, which was not transformed, and then reverse Kadabra's ray so he is restored completely. He again defeats Kadabra.〔''The Flash'' vol. 1 #133 (December 1962)〕 In one of his many confrontations with the Flash, Abra Kadabra's technology is damaged and his body becomes insubstantial and wraith-like.〔''The Flash'' Vol. 2 #23 (Feb. 1989)〕〔''The Flash'' Vol. 2 #67 (Sept. 1992)〕 After his body is returned to normal, he is captured by a bounty hunter named Peregrine, and returned to his native century to serve a death sentence, although he is saved by the Flash before he can be executed.〔''The Flash'' Vol. 2 #68 (Sept. 1992)〕 Shortly after returning to the 21st century, during the ''Underworld Unleashed'' storyline, he forgoes his technological implements and tricks five rogues into selling their souls to Neron so he can gain genuine magical powers.〔 Abra Kadabra later kidnapped Linda Park, the girlfriend of Wally West (Barry Allen's protégé and successor), during their wedding and erases her from history,〔''The Flash'' Vol. 2 #142 (Oct. 1998)〕 though he is ultimately defeated with the help of Walter West, Wally's counterpart from an alternate dimension.〔''The Flash'' Vol. 2 #158 (March 2000)〕 Abra Kadabra is mentioned in Neil Gaiman's ''Books of Magic'' mini-series. In the fourth issue Timothy Hunter, escorted by Mister E, visits the 64th century, described by E as a time when the differences between magic and technology have become blurred. The inhabitants tell them they have selected their "date-line" to send the "Madchild Abhararakadhararbarakh". Timothy Hunter responds "Abracadabra?" and Mister E tells him not to talk to the inhabitants of this time, and so they then continue their path into the future. In ''Infinite Crisis'', Abra Kadabra became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains.〔''Infinite Crisis'' #2 (Jan. 2006)〕 In "One Year Later", he and several other Rogues are approached by Inertia with a plan to kill the Flash (then Bart Allen).〔''The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive'' #11 (June 2007)〕 Though Inertia is defeated, Kadabra and the other Rogues successfully beat Bart to death, though not before Kadabra recognizes that Bart is too young to be the Flash they are used to dealing with.〔''The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive'' #13 (Aug. 2007)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abra Kadabra (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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