Who Is Felix Faust? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Felix Faust is a DC Comics comic book character, with over 350 comic issue appearances. A 5000-year-old villainous sorcerer who is one of the Justice League of America's first adversaries.

Who is Felix Faust?

Major Story Arcs In his millennia 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 millennia 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.

Key facts

Felix Faust is of god/eternal origin and first appeared in "The Fantastic Fingers of Felix Faust!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 350 recorded issue appearances, Felix Faust ranks among the most featured characters in comics.