William Dawson and Tricky O'Rickey were two common crooks given uncommon abilities that were tied to twin masterminds who matched their brains versus their respective Flashs' super speed.
The super simian of Gorilla City known as Grodd had attempted three times to achieve his sinister goals and each occasion found defeat at the hands the Earth-One's Flash. Imprisoned in a seemingly inescapable cube within Gorilla City's confines by its leader, Solivar, Grodd ingested a pill that transferred his mind into the body of William Dawson, wherein he attempted several more times to conquer the world... as both a human and again a gorilla.
The super simian of Gorilla City known as Grodd had attempted three times to achieve his sinister goals and each occasion found defeat at the hands the Earth-One's Flash. Imprisoned in a seemingly inescapable cube within Gorilla City's confines by its leader, Solivar, Grodd ingested a pill that transferred his mind into the body of William Dawson, wherein he attempted several more times to conquer the world... as both a human and again a gorilla.
Doctor Hartford Jackson was an accomplished amateur inventor living in Keystone City, and developed a thinking cap that also intensified the mind's energies. However, his cap was stolen by criminal Tricky O'Rickey and used against the Flash of that world, before the crook was finally defeated and the cap returned to its owner. As for the thinking cap... it would seem that it ended up in the hands of a famous felon on Earth-Two. When malevolent mastermind Clifford Devoe aka the Thinker procured the device, he eventually modified it to torment the Scarlet Speedster and his allies of the Justice Society, both on his own and as a member of the Injustice Gang. The thinking cap carries the brainwaves of its former wearers, which included Jackson and O'Rickey.
While still possessing his force of mind powers, Grodd inadvertently bestowed a portion of them to Dawson, who's mind formed an energy body that became Psykon. Returning years later, Psykon battled Grodd and displaced the gorilla into the alcohol addled mind of a homeless vagrant, regaining his own body once more.
As for O'Rickey, after his sole foray into the life of a super villain, he presumably remained incarnated following his defeat. However, undoubtedly his residual influence remained in the thinking cap, providing its current owner Devoe with a more criminal intent than even he had before his acquiring it.
While still possessing his force of mind powers, Grodd inadvertently bestowed a portion of them to Dawson, who's mind formed an energy body that became Psykon. Returning years later, Psykon battled Grodd and displaced the gorilla into the alcohol addled mind of a homeless vagrant, regaining his own body once more.
As for O'Rickey, after his sole foray into the life of a super villain, he presumably remained incarnated following his defeat. However, undoubtedly his residual influence remained in the thinking cap, providing its current owner Devoe with a more criminal intent than even he had before his acquiring it.
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