(Pre & Post-Crisis): (New 52): Doctor Psycho is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman.

Doctor Psycho has been one of Wonder Woman's most persistent enemies, reappearing throughout the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Modern Age of Comics.

[2] Over the decades, Doctor Psycho has undergone several minor updates as comics continuities have shifted and evolved, though his distinctive physical appearance has remained largely faithful to artist Harry G. Peter's original 1943 design.

After DC Comics rebooted its continuity in 1985 (in a publication event known as the Crisis on Infinite Earths), Wonder Woman, her supporting characters and many of her foes were re-imagined and reintroduced.

Prior to this reboot, Doctor Psycho demonstrated a command over the occult and was able to harness supernatural energies to project illusions.

Despite these changes, Doctor Psycho has consistently been portrayed as a misogynistic person of short stature who has mental illness (ranging from mild obsessiveness to full-blown dissociation).

Doctor Psycho made his animation debut as a regular in the TV series Harley Quinn, voiced by Tony Hale.

Wonder Woman's rogues and supporting cast were largely jettisoned during the period that Robert Kanigher wrote and edited the issues, but Doctor Psycho remained one of the few villains to appear in the Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age adventures.

Convicted on the basis of Marva's testimony, Psycho seethed behind bars for years, planning his revenge while developing an intense hatred of all women.

Learning that he could use Marva as a medium for summoning ectoplasm he could use at will to fashion and animate human forms around his own misshapen body, he created a new career for himself as an occultist and sham psychic who developed a following of millions.

With the aid of Steve Trevor and the Holliday College girls, Wonder Woman disrupted his plot but was forced to release him, unable to prove any of his crimes in a court of law.

Freed from Psycho's influence, Marva joined the WAACs and helped Wonder Woman expose Nazi saboteur Stoffer, who had disguised himself as General Scott.

[9] Psycho was eventually imprisoned but escaped by faking his own death, kidnapping Marva and then his former secretary, Joan White, to use as mediums for his ectoplasmic power.

This was part of a plot intended to leave Wonder Woman isolated and create widespread public fear of her fellow Amazons.

[1] Dr. Psycho's plans are foiled and he subsequently spends some time as a patient in a mental facility, confined to a padded room and a straitjacket.

During the trial, he uses his mind-controlling abilities to make Spencer dream of herself dressed as Wonder Woman in a scene reminiscent of the Roman Colosseum.

Psycho then compels Kate to put on her suit, but he drops his guard to sneak a kiss with her, resulting in him being stabbed in the stomach and head.

During the Final Crisis storyline, Genocide was sent to the headquarters of the Department of Metahuman Affairs (DMA) to retrieve Doctor Psycho, who was held captive there.

In this new timeline, Doctor Psycho first appears in Superboy; a con man psychic who practices seance, using his telepathy to steal the identities of customers in Manhattan.

[22] In Doomsday Clock, Doctor Psycho is among the villains who attend an underground meeting held by the Riddler to discuss the Superman Theory.

[23] When the Sovereign conspires to turn the world against the Amazons, Sarge Steel recruits Doctor Psycho and several other villains to kill Wonder Woman.

Doctor Psycho appears as a primary antagonist in the second volume of Wonder Woman: Earth One by writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette.