Van Kaliban was a genius in the fields of theatrics and special effects. Motivated by pure greed, Kaliban used his position as an architectural draftsman to design Gotham City's maximum security prison equipped with secret passages that Van would use to free select prisoners... for a price! His special robed garment included smoke to make him appear to vanish, a balloon in his image that floated, and hypnosis to disorient foes.
The Mist was originally a scientist who through his invisio-solution transformed into an invisible criminal. As a foe of the Gravity Rod powered Starman, Mist also used his formula to hypnotically control his prey. Despite these advantages, both times he faced Starman, his schemes were thwarted. Then something strange happened decades later!
Despite the Spook’s tools, the Earth-One Batman was able to track him down through the tunnels of Gotham's abandoned underground railway system into an abandoned control center the criminal was utilizing. The Spook would return in the company of other criminals, when it was alleged that one among their number had slain their mutual foe the Batman. This turned out to be a scheme by the Caped Crusader himself, drawing these criminals together to then capture them all at once.
Eventually, the Mist invisio-solution began to mutate his body, allowing him to transform into a gaseous entity. Reappearing in the mid-1960s, the Mist had a rematch with his old foe and Starman's Justice Society teammate Black Canary. In order to assist Canary versus their mutual foe, Starman designed for her a miniature Quasar Rod. Confronted with these two cosmic crusaders, the Mist lost and was incarcerated for decades .
Years later, Mist joined the Secret Society of Super-Villains in an effort to conquer Earth-Two by exiling the Justice Society and Justice League into interdimensional Limbo. When their plot failed, Mist and his cronies were then left in Limbo, until later recalled to their native world to battle the All-Star Squadron back in the 1940s. Still, he failed yet again and returned to the present along with his allies.
Finally, the Spook was among those supervillains freed of Gotham City's prisons by Killer Croc, with the goal of overwhelming Batman. Despite superior numbers, these rogues were unable to defeat their adversary and his friends in the Batman Family, with the Spook finally being captured from which he has thus far not escaped as of this writing!
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