ALBERT ZERO

Real Name: Albert Zaero

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Bookkeeper

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City, 1940s era

First Appearance: Green Lantern I #15 (Spring, 1945)

Powers: Albert Zero could alter reality through the power of his thoughts.

History: (Green Lantern I #15) - Albert Zero was a humble bookkeeper, and one day books fell on his head, jarring a brain cell, and unleashing a hidden power in his brain. He could suddenly make his thoughts reality, but tried to convince himself he was hallucinating. Doiby Dickles took a fare from Albert Zero, who demonstrated his power by turning the cab into a haywagon. Doiby told himself he was just seeing things, and dropped off Zero. That night Zero worried about thoughts of destruction, causing buildings to crumble, bridges to tear apart, and a volcano to spring up in the city. GL responded, fixing structures as fast as he could, and stopping Looters. Doiby told him about Zero, whose nightmare were now creating dragons and other mythic creatures. They went to Zero's apartment and woke him up, telling him he was destroying the city. He worried about what would happen if the world knew of his powers, and then it was so. Thugs came to kidnap him for their racket, and the military came to kill him, so he wish everyone was thousands of miles away from him. GL and Doiby ended up in the North Pole, and flew back to Gotham, convincing Zero to undue the damage he did. GL researched neurology, but couldn't figure out what had happened to Zero. Zero started counting to distract himself from thinking, and when he came across the girl who told the racketeers about him he begged her to help him, creating wealth to entice her, but she ran away. When the army attacked him again he soured on humanity for trying to kill him instead of helping him, so he turned to the criminals he met earlier and said they could rule the world together. Zero brought the wealth of the city to them, and when GL showed up they were at a stalemate, because GL's willpower was strong enough to protect him from Zero's power with a forcefield of flame. The thugs shot, and ended up shooting the woman Zero was so fond of. GL rounded up the thugs, and Zero said he didn't care if GL had to kill him to stop him, because he had nothing. GL used the power ring to hive him great knowledge. Consciously utilizing his power he raised the girl from the dead, and she said she loved him. With her at his side he would train and prepare his mind until he could use his power again and make the world a utopia.

Comments: Created by Alfred Bester & Martin Nodell.