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Snart read an article that theorized that the energy emissions of a cyclotron could interfere with the Flash's speed.

He designed a weapon to harness that power and broke into a cyclotron lab, intending to use the device to charge up his experimental gun.

As he was finishing his experiment, a security guard surprised Snart.

Intending to use his gun only to scare the guard, he inadvertently pulled the trigger and discovered that his weapon had been altered in a way he had never imagined.

The moisture in the air around the guard froze.

Intrigued by this twist of fate, Snart donned a parka and the aforementioned visor and declared himself to be Captain Cold-the man who mastered absolute zero.

Snart then committed a series of non-lethal crimes, on one occasion placing the city in suspended animation in an attempt to force Iris West to marry him as he had fallen in love with her when he saw her in the prison, but the Flash got through a wall of ice and was able to reverse the process.

He later fell in love with a newscaster, and competed with Heat Wave ( in his first appearance ) over her in a crime spree, but they were both beaten by the Flash.

But after Barry Allen's death, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Captain Cold became a bounty hunter with his sister Lisa, the Golden Glider.