Wicked Wand Wielders vs the Scarlet Speedsters

Not everything is as it appears, appearances can be deceiving, charm is only skin deep but wickedness is clear to the bone. Apt our such descriptions for Earth-One's Abra Kadabra and Earth-Two's Wizard. While on the surface, they both appear to be malicious magicians they are in fact phony felons. Their treacherous tricks are actually created from techniques and devices they stole along the way.

In Abra Kadabra's 64th century superscience makes it appear like the villain is using magic instead, and in the middle 1940's the Wizard use illusions to make things appear real without substance.

Still, they were each a force to be reckoned with and caused their scarlet speedsters, the Flashs Barry Allen and Jay Garrick, considerable grief from time to time. Both were showmen who wished to impress their adversaries with their elaborate machinations, and the Fastest Men Alive with the their quick witted reasoning was their greatest challenge. They each actually created artificial realities where the wives of each Flash was married to someone else, and the heroes were tormented with tragic lives until they realized these were fake.

Additionally, they branched out to face off against the Justice League and Society and join the Injustice Gang and Society, in fact leading these two tyrannical teams versus their World's Greatest Heroes.

Each were known for their trickery, and not just in their abilities, but in their cutthroat nature at their self-centered goals. Both traveled to the other's universe but sadly never did the two meet until the Crisis threatened both dimensions.

In fact, when Wizard temporarily resided in Earth-One, his powers were greatly diminished. As such, he manipulated the Secret Society of Super-Villains into helping him procured four items of an ancient treasure that another criminal named Atkins had used against the World's Finest team of Superman and Batman. Among these items was a cloak of invisibility invisibility, power gloves and a gem that reflected any force aimed at it back at its originator, as well as a creature chest.

Atkin's counterpart on Earth-Two used an ancient piano that attracted rather than repel, while wearing garments similar to those assembled from the Wizard's stolen treasure. After a clash versus Wildcat and Stretch Skinner, this Atkins was vanquished. 

Interestingly, Wizard was able to split the Superman and Clark Kent identities, with the former kept in a year-long comatose state while the latter ended up embodying more heroic characteristics. Eventually, Clark married Lois Lane, only for her to discover he was also Superman. Seeking out the Wizard, she convinced him to restore the Superman identity once more. 

A similar situation occured on Earth-One when the time traveling tyrant Lord Satanis and his wife split Superman in half, each possessing a portion of the Man of Steel's combined powers. After considerable time apart, the pair of Supermen were made whole again, defeating the villians. 

Back on Earth-Two, Dragon King used his abilities to draw out the evil half of Superman and other superhuman members of America's All-Star Squadron, with the intent of making them slaves of the Axis Powers. Thankfully, these heroes were freed from the "Sphere of Influence" that Dragon King created around half the globe.

The remarkable parallel histories of Abra Kadabra and Wizard do not just stop there. We'll consider a couple of Twice-Told-Tale involving the pair as they confronted their foes.