Effron the Sorcerer

Effron the Sorcerer is a fictional magic using supervillain published by DC Comics. He first appeared in World's Finest Comics #210 (March 1972), and was created by Elliot S. Maggin and Dick Dillin. DC Comics writer Elliot S! Maggin was a student at Brandeis University. He was friends with Mark Effron, General Manager of The Takeaway, a national morning news broadcast on public radio, and older brother of Eric, who is Executive Editor at The Week magazine. One day Mark's father, Irving, visited campus. Effron the Senior (Irving, versus Effron the Sorcerer) was -- and is -- a bigger-than-life, stocky, sturdy, stick-in-your-eye ex-Marine. Maggin was taken by the senior Effron and told Mark he planned on using his father as a villain in an...