Erik Gelden (Earth-616)

Mind-Wave
Name	Erik Gelden
Current Alias	Mind-Wave
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Hood's Gang, Leader of the Esper-Ts
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Death	Bar with No Name, Medina County, Ohio
Cause of Death	Shot by the first Scourge of the Underworld(revived by The Hood) Killed by Punisher
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Occupation	Bank Robber
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Marv Wolfman, William Robert Brown
First	Daredevil #133 (February, 1976)
First	Daredevil #133 (February, 1976)
Death	Punisher (Vol. 8) #8 (August, 2009)
Death	Punisher (Vol. 8) #8 (August, 2009)

History

Mind-Wave was a criminal who possessed mental powers, apparently granted or reinforced by a high-tech helmet he possessed. He clashed with Uri Geller in Europe before coming to the United States and attacking banks in New York City. He was defeated by Geller and Daredevil who had been asked to team up against the menace by district attorney Blake Tower. Mind-Wave was then imprisoned.

Later, Mind-Wave replaced his original helmet, with one of his minion's helmets, the Esper-Ts.

He was contacted by Gary Gilbert, a former costumed criminal turned into business agent for criminals. Gilbert was worried about the Scourge of the Underworld, a masked figure who was killing costumed criminals such as Gilbert and Mind-Wave. Gilbert organized a meeting in the Bar with No Name, Medina County, Ohio, to discuss potential counter-attacks. As the Scourge was known to use weapons instead of powers, weapons were to be left at the door. However, the Scourge infiltrated in the meeting disguised as the bartender and shot down all the seventeen criminals (including Mind-Wave) wielding a cut-down .50 submachine gun in each hand.

He was later resurrected by the Hood to try to kill the Punisher, but failed and was killed again.

Attributes

Powers

Mind-Wave possessed psionic powers, boosted by the use of his helmet (Alternatively, he might need the helmet to use the powers, or the powers could have been in the helmet). Powers included:

• ESP, somehow used to blind a non-telepath.
• Telepathy with people using other helmets like his, with his "think tank" and with other ESPers. He could read the thoughts of people without psionic screens.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Psycho-Helmet: Mind-Wave's helmet could boost his powers, or could be the source for them. His second helmet did not show this skill.

Weapons

Mind-Wave used a handheld version of the heat ray in his Think Tank.

Transportation

Think Tank was a heavily armored vehicle he could control using his mental powers. It also had an automatic pilot that controlled it even without Mind-Wave's orders. It had heat-ray cannon, energy blasts and laser blasts, and was hard enough to crash through walls by ramming on them. It could host at least eight people (normally minions):

Notes

Real name revealed in Scourge's profile in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Hardcover Vol. 10

See Also

• 8 appearance(s) of Erik Gelden (Earth-616)
• 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Erik Gelden (Earth-616)
• 2 minor appearance(s) of Erik Gelden (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Erik Gelden (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Mindwave at the Marvel Appendix