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Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

At Bleeding Cool, we are more and more settling into the idea of Mr. Oz from the Superman books being Roz-Em, the Kryptonian super-villain who posed at Superman back in Adventure Comics in the sixties.

He had facial surgery to look just like Jor-El's twin brother — and thus Jor-El as well — and Superman, for that matter.

But there's another interesting twist we picked up on. Because while most texts recognise the Adventure Comics story with Superboy and a mention in The Phantom Zone #1 comic, there is another that hasn't been notified by collectors, in Adventure Comics #395 and #396, in a story with Supergirl.

Here, she visits a haunted house…

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

…once owned by a famous inventor, Amos Amoswell.

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past…is confronted by the ghost of Jor-El…

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

…and other created beasts…

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

…then realises it can't be Jor-El, but is instead Roz-Em..

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

…and ends up fighting the inventor of the gadgets that summoned Roz-Em from the Phantom Zone…

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

…who wears a hooded robe and handles a scythe a little like Mr. Oz…

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

Could Mr. Oz be Roz-Em, who took his clothes from Amos Amoswell when he later emerged from the Phantom Zone?

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

Or… could he be Amos Amoswell? Am-Oz Am-Oz-Well? He is a powerful time traveller and reality manipulator.

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

It's a theory… indeed, it's two of them.

Another Possibility For The Secret Identity Of Mr Oz – And A Prime Suspect From Supergirl's Past

What do you think now?


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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