| Frustrated by his station as lab assistant in the Keystone City Police crime lab, Alexander Petrov devised a way to arrange for a promotion. He stole Mr. Element’s weapon from the evidence lock-up, then killed his mentor by freezing him with ice. Promoted to head of the lab, exhilarated by his success and his secret, he continued killing more police, focusing on those whose intelligence matched his. To keep his identity secret he not only donned a gas mask and the Mr. Element name, but he always used ice effects, and planted evidence to frame Captain Cold for the murders. |
