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Masters of the Universe (1987) The Cannon Group, Inc. Dir. Gary Goddard

Today's Extra Love Songs For Playlist Building Consideration:

Ten Minutes Ago // Julie Andrews & Jon Cypher - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957) (This wasn't a Disney production, but the same song from the 1997 version did make it to the bracket! (after a double prelim win))

Married Life // Michael Giacchio - Up (2009) (No one submitted it)

If I Never Knew You // Jon Secada & Shanice - Pocahontas (1995) (No one submitted it)

Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Spellbinder

Ira Billings was a gifted inventor and unscrupulous psychologist.  He developed a sophisticated means of entrancing people, leaving them highly susceptible to the power of suggestion.  Despite his ingenuity, Billings ended up working as a councilor at Hamilton High School where he felt unappreciated and envious toward those students who came from wealthy families.  

Billings weaponized his invention and became the costumed villain known as The Spellbinder.  First he would gather information through his counseling sessions with the wealthier students, then he hypnotize these individuals coercing them into stealing the valuables from their homes and delivering them to him.  Those entranced had no memory of their actions.

The rash of burglaries caught the attention of Batman.  Terry and Bruce investigated the matter and discovered a commonality among the victims.  All the burgled homes belonged to patients of Dr. Billings.  To further the investigation, Terry went to Billings for counseling, sure to mention the valuables in the home of his employer Bruce Wayne.  It was bait too tempting for Billings to pass up and it was not long before a mesmerized Terry was pilfering through Wayne Manner.  

Once Terry was awoken from his trance, he donned his guise as Batman and intercepted Billings.  As the Spellbinder, Billings possessed all manner of illusion-based tricks that made it difficult for Batman to lay a hand on him.  With Bruce’s help, however, Batman was able to prevail and The Spellbinder was taken down.  Billings would return on numerous occasions, becoming one of the new Batman's more persistent rogues.