Felix Faust

History

In this millennium on Earth, Faust has studied the occult to amass formidable talents in spell casting and the summoning of demons. What Faust lacks in true magical power he makes up for in his willingness to sell his soul or sacrifice others, including his own children, to obtain mystical might.

Seven millenniums ago, sorcerer Felix Faust challenged the wizard-king Nommo, ruler of magnificent Kor, for possession of the burning enigma called the flame of life. Having little to trade except his own malefic magicks, the greedy Faust was banished from the bargaining table as Kor crumbled to history. Felix did not escape his other dimensional prison until the early 20th century, when occult dabbler Dekan Drache made his own one-sided Faustian pact. 

As a young man Felix Faust read the story of how his namesake Faust, had sold his soul to the devil for supernatural powers. From that moment onwards, Felix sought to do the same, studying dead languages in Vienna, archaeology in London and history in Sorbonne.

He also visited the ruins of Ur and Lagash in Chaldea, famous for magicians. He even unearthed a copy of the Necronomicon, the book of black magic written by mad Arab Abdul Alhazred. He studied ancient parchments and the clay tablets of long dead sorcerers, all in preparation for a single moment - when he would speak the incantation that would summon to him the three ancient demons known as Abnegazar, Rath and Ghast, supremely powerful beings who had been imprisoned beneath the Earth for billions of years by the mysterious Timeless Ones.

Faust hoped to force the three demons to real to him the secrets of their supernatural powers. Unfortunately for Faust, certain mystic objects were required to truly free the three demons from their spell; the red jar of Calythos, the green belt of Ulthool, and the silver wheel of Nyorlath. These objects had been hidden by the Timeless ones where no ordinary mortal would ever locate them.

With the demon's aid, Faust took mystic control of the members of the Justice League of America and used them to recover the three talisman for him. But the JLA managed to defeat Faust before he could use the bell jar and wheel to make himself the most powerful sorcerer in the universe.

Several times of the next few years Faust returned, always trying to gain supreme power and always thwarted in his efforts by the JLA. Once, while in prison, during a psychological seminar, Faust experienced a primal scream. In one shrieking instant, all the pent up frustration of his life were expelled and Felix Faust reborn.

Paroled soon after, Faust became curator of Special Literature at Star City public Library where he soon came into contact with the secret journal of the ancient sorcerer Nostromos, and found himself possessed by Nostromos' evil spirit. Though Faust managed to free himself from Nostromos' possession with the help of the Justice League, Nostromos's spirit had left its mark and Felix Faust soon returned to his evil ways. 

More recently, Faust masqueraded as the sorcerer Nabu to tempt Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, with the mystic means to resurrect his murdered wife Sue. But Ralph's twitching nose smelled a mystery, and the ductile detective turned the tables on faust, trapping him and the supreme tempter Neron within the tower sanctum of Dr. Fate. Not one to make the same magical mistake twice, Faust tempted Black Adam with the promise to raise his beloved Isis from Death's embrace. This time, however, he opted for a simpler ruse, switching the skeleton of Isis with the bones of Ralph Dibny and thus confounding the resurrection spell.

Faust joined Alexander Luthor's Secret Society of Super Villains.

In Faces of Evil: Black Adam, it is revealed that Felix Faust had resurrected Isis, and had been keeping her captive.

Powers and Abilities

Felix Faust is a skilled magician.

In Other Media

Felix Faust appeared in the cartoon episode "Paradise lost". He intruded Themyscira and turned the Amazons into stone. Wonder Woman returned to Themyscira in order to visit her mother and meets Felix Faust instead. Faust tells Diana to obtain three mystical objects which could increase his own knowledge( which is a pure lie). He gives Diana three crystals and tells her that these crystals would guide her to the objects. Diana forces Faust to promise her that if she obtains the three objects he would free the Amazons from his magical spell. Faust also reminds Diana that if she fails to gather the three objects in time, he would leave the Amazons trapped in stone forever.

When Diana leaves, Faust secretly casts a magical spell and communicates with Lord Hades. Lord Hades appears as flames and forces Faust to be sure this. Faust tells him that the magical objects are guarded by magical beings and it would be difficult for him to take the objects.

Diana finds the first object in a museum. When Diana takes the magical object, the object animates a nearby stone statue and the statue attacks Diana. Although the stone statue was unable to kill Diana, it was able to recover the magical object until Diana gets angry and punches the statue around until the statue breaks. Diana then tells the Justice League Unlimited about Faust and his hold over the Amazons. The Justice League Unlimited agrees to help her gather the other magical objects.

Batman decides to do a little research about Faust. He asks an old doctor to help him and later discovers that Faust used to be a professor until being drawn to the mystic arts. He soon was kicked out of the school where he taught and wanted revenge on the owns who wronged him. He used his sorcery skills and tortured all of hsi enemies and kept their heads in his living room.

Batman discovers that Faust had been gathering the mystical objects which kept Lord Hades imprisoned in Tartarus. The Justice League decides to follow Diana to Themyscira and soon attacks Faust. Faust uses his sorcery powers and summons a plant monster to attack the Justice League. Faust then makes use of his time and teleports Queen Hippolytia and himself to the gates of Tartarus to liberate Hades. The Justice League finds their way to the gates of Tartarus and attacks Faust again. Faust uses the three mystical objects and opens the gate of Tartarus. Hades tricks Faust and touches his forehead which caused Faust to age greatly.

The Justice League then fights Hades but failed to defeat Hades for he was too powerful. Faust heals himself enough and projects a mystical bolt of energy which wounds Hades. Hades then turns into a monster and later is banished back into Tartarus along with Felix Faust.

Freed Again!

Tala, Faust's apprentice, raids Tartarus and frees Faust's soul. Tala traps Faust's soul in a mirror. Faust tricks Tala into casting a spell which allowed Faust to escape from the mirror and instead trap Tala in the mirror. The spell was " In the name of Zeus, free his essence, and open the gate to power.". Faust then possesses the powerful juggernaunt called The Annihilator and uses it to invade Tartarus. He defeats Hades and tortures Hades for betraying him. Diana is alerted by Hermes and is sent to put Hades back onto the throne of Tartarus. Hawkgirl decides to follow Diana to stop Faust from obtainning more power. Diana and Hawkgirl, allied with Hades, breaks the Annihilator and defeats Faust. Hades then reveals to Diana that he in fact is Diana's farther. Hades also saids that he would torture Faust's soul as a new hobby after Hades's books had been destroyed by Hawkgirl.