10 Worst Things Black Adam Has Ever Done
7. He Poked Out The Psycho Pirate’s Eyes
Roger Hayden is the second of two men to use the Psycho-Pirate moniker. He was created by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson and first appeared in Showcase #56. Through the use of the Medusa Mask, he was able to project emotional states onto others and control them. Hayden was from Earth-Two and was used by the Anti-Monitor during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, so he is one of the few characters that remembered the first multiverse.
Lex Luthor (secretly Earth 3’s Alexander Luthor) organized most of the planet’s villain population into the Secret Society of Super-Villains. Black Adam joined the inner circle for his own reasons but unbeknownst to him, Luthor had plans for Adam. Needing immense energy to power the apparatuses to restart the multiverse, Luthor betrayed Adam and had Psycho-Pirate control him to call down the lightning of Shazam to power Luthor’s machines.
In Infinite Crisis #6, Superboy and Nightwing free Black Adam from Psycho-Pirate’s control. Realizing that he had been controlled, he immediately flew to Hayden’s location as the villain was trying to make Power Girl kill the Ray. Seeing Adam, the Pirate started screaming “You’re afraid!” The dark champion calmly took his index and pinkie finger and put it in the eye holes of the Medusa Mask and pushed it through Hayden’s face, killing him instantly.