Victor Fries was a cryogenics expert in Gotham City who was caught in a laboratory mishap while attempting to cure his terminally ill wife, Nora the accident drastically lowered his body temperature to sub-zero levels, forcing him to wear a cryogenic suit in order to survive. Years later, the character's origin story was revamped to match the one conceived by the writer Paul Dini for Batman: The Animated Series. Created by writer Dave Wood and artist Sheldon Moldoff, he first appeared in Batman #121 (February 1959) as the ice-based criminal Mr. Victor Fries) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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