Oggar (Earth-S)

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Oggar

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Real Name

Oggar

Other Aliases

Oggar the Accursed · World's Mightiest Immortal

Affiliation

Monster Society of Evil

Status

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Eyes

Black

Hair

Blond

Origin

Universe

Earth-S

Creators

Otto Binder · Pete Costanza

First Appearance
Captain Marvel Adventures #61 (May, 1946)

Oggar was a former pupil of the wizard Shazam and an enemy of the Marvel Family.

History

Thousands of years ago, Oggar was a young god and student of the wizard Shazam. He belonged to the same group of elders who empower Captain Marvel, and for a time, the wizard changed his name to "Shazamo". However, Oggar refused an order to go to the aid of a small nation that a tyrant was about to invade. Oggar believed a young, vital god should be in charge, and challenged Shazamo's leadership.

After engaging in combat with Shazamo, he found he could not counter the wizard's power. After his rebellion, the wizard Shazamo cursed Oggar with cloven hooves, condemned him to live among mortals, and removed the "O" from his own name (even breaking the letter out of his throne, in shame). Before going away, Oggar yet remained close to the gates of the temple, and listened to the wizard deliver a prophecy: in the twentieth century, the wizard would die, and would have a successor named Billy Batson. Billy was destined to become Captain Marvel, and have assembled the power of each of the heroes who remained. Oggar decided to lie low until the twentieth century when there would be only Captain Marvel, and not multiple enemies to defeat.

Shortly after his rebellion, in the mortal world, Oggar tried to seduce the beautiful Circe to be his queen when he conquered the world, which she refused. Oggar tried to avenge himself for this slight, but his magic could not directly harm women. Then he thought of a means on harming her indirectly, and gave her a gift, instead, which made her immortal. However, this did not diminish Circe's aging, and after about 200 years, she was still alive, but terribly ugly and wrinkled. This made her feel a mortal hatred of all men, who rejected her for her ugliness. She learned witchcraft and how to turn men into animals.

Oggar returned in the 20th Century, and battled Captain Marvel as he tried to recruit people to the Cult of the Curse. After several battles against Marvel, he finally re-encountered Circe in an island, who turned him into a boar. In this form he fell into a precipice and was thought dead.^[1]

However, he was able to regain his normal form, after years of working with his magic, and he then joined the Monster Society of Evil. Unfortunately for him, the Marvel Family was by then well aware of his magic's limitation with females, and since then Mary Marvel has typically been assigned to deal with him.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Godly Physiology
- Immortality: Oggar can't age or die; even while being transformed in a boar, he was still immortal.
- Invulnerability
- Magic: Oggar's magic enabled him to do nearly anything, like turning Captain Marvel back with lightning, or muting people, or create a 50,000 sand soldiers army with a wave of his hands and a verbal command.
- Superhuman Agility: Cloven feet give Oggar agility akin to a mountain goat.
- Superhuman Strength: He was Captain Marvel's exact equal in physical strength.

Abilities

Occultism

Weaknesses

Vulnerability to Magic: Oggar is vulnerable to magic transformation spells.
Single Target: Each spell could only be used once against the same person.
Female Limitation: Oggar cannot use his magical power to harm females directly.

Notes

This version of Oggar, 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.