Thousands of years before Billy Batson became a magically-empowered hero, the wizard Shazam selected another champion. Now labeled Black Adam, he was exiled by Shazam, but returned in the modern day. Everybody loves a bad guy. With the countdown to DC FanDome officially kicking off, we found ourselves As a criminal and killer, Adam was a thorn in the side of Shazam or years before he turned over a new leaf.
And in the pages of 52 by Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and many more, readers saw the damage that a grieving Black Adam could really do. Alongside his family, Osiris quickly proves himself a hero, rescuing an anthropomorphic crocodile named Sobek and even briefly joining the Teen Titans. Amon reverts to his human form only to be brutally eaten alive by none other than Sobek, revealed to be an artificially developed Horseman of the Apocalypse.
In the course of his time with the JSA, Black Adam forged a special relationship with Atom Smasher, the team's size-changing powerhouse, who was dealing with the grief of losing his sister in an attack by the villainous group Kobra. Black Adam keyed into Atom Smasher's anger, pushing him toward a more brutal, violent form of so-called justice, which Atom Smasher began indulging more and more.
When Black Adam later decided to leave the Justice Society and become the new leader of his ancestral home of Kahndaq in the story 'Black Reign, he enlists Atom Smasher and several other heroes and villains as his enforcers.
Atom Smasher crosses a line, and murders the Kahndaqi dictator himself, making way for Adam's rulership. Adam's team goes about murdering villains around the world, including the leaders of Kobra, drawing the attention of the JSA and turning them into global villains.
The JSA come to Kahndaq, inciting a conflict between the dictator's forces and the people of Kahndaq, with the JSA on the side of the dictator, and the people on the side of Black Adam. In the end, the JSA departs, realizing the position they have put themselves in, but before they leave they first convince Black Adam not to try and impose his rules on the rest of the world, remaining solely in Kahndaq. Atom Smasher begins his rehabilitation back toward more out-and-out heroism.
There are exceptions to Black Adam's rule about sharing his power - particularly when it comes to his rulership of Kahndaq, during which he decides to create his own super-powered royal family. In the limited, yearlong weekly limited series 52, Black Adam rescues an enslaved woman named Arianna Tomez from InterGang a fictional organized crime ring with a sci-fi twist, who debuted in Jack Kirby's Fourth World saga , leading him to also rescue her brother Amon.
Imbuing Arianna and Amon with a portion of his power, Black Adam dubs them Isis and Osiris, taking them to Kahndaq as his new royal family. TV show, holds a much different connotation now. Over the next several years, Adam continued his regular visits to Rann while aiding Super Heroes on Earth. Wanting to settle his affairs on Earth, Adam visited his sister and dying father and told them the truth behind his repeated absences.
Early the next morning, he learned his father had died. Alanna discovered that her father had intentionally brought Adam to Rann in order to use him as a stud. The Mega Beam then delivered Adam, but gave him hallucinations that sent him into a rage. He immediately attacked Sardath, making him a fugitive. But Alanna was not well following the difficult labor. Fox told Adam that Alanna had died from complications. Unbeknownst to Adam Strange, Sardath discovered Alanna was alive but in a deep coma.
Fox had mistaken her condition for death, due to a misunderstanding of how Rannian biology differed from Earth human biology. Sardath placed Alanna in suspended animation, and then traveled through space to find a way to heal her. Adam had the League rescue Sardath and Alanna. Without the radiation, Adam was transported back to Earth and once again relied on tracking down Zeta Beams so he could reunite with his family.
JLA vol. Eventually, Sardath developed a new way to ensure Adam permanently stayed on Rann without having to wait years for another Mega Beam. Adam fell into a depression, believing his wife and child were gone.
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