Biography
The Wand first appears in the Hyperborean era (thousands of years before the modern age), when the barbarian Conan battles a priestess of the god Yog, who attempts to use the Wand to summon the entity. The priestess, however, panics in a final confrontation with Conan and drops the Wand, which Conan uses to fatally wound her.
The Wand is used in an unsuccessful attempt by the sorcerer Xandu to destroy the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange. Although the artifact is at first divided into two halves, Xandu manages to reunite the pieces and restore the Wand after hypnotizing two thugs to steal one half from Strange, having stolen the other from a magician. He joins the two halves and attempts to destroy Strange, but is defeated by Strange and the hero Spider-Man both attacking him at once. Strange scans Xandu's mind, then apparently erases his knowledge of the Wand, then drains the Wand of all power and discards it.
Xandu locates the Wand uses another artifact, the Crystal of Kadavus, to recharge it. Xandu hopes to use the Wand to revive his wife Melinda from a coma, although after another battle with Strange and Spider-Man discovers that his wife is in fact dead. The Wand is abandoned by Strange in an alternate dimension created by Xandu. Xandu continues to obsess over the revival of his wife and relocates the Wand, using it to transfer the soul of the heroine the Scarlet Witch into the body of his dead wife. This is reversed when Xandu is defeated once again by Spider-Man. The Wand is revealed to be transported to the dimension of the entity Agamotto for safekeeping during Strange's final battle with the villain Urthona, although it and other artifacts are recovered by Strange.
Strange uses the Wand of Watoomb and other artifacts during the Infinity Gauntlet storyline. Xandu eventually returns and possesses Spider-man, stealing the artifact. Strange aids Spider-Man in thwarting Xandu, with the Wand finally being shattered. The Wand reforms when Xandu uses it to attempt to merge the Earth-616 universe with the dimension of the dead. Doctor Strange; the Scarlet Witch; Spider-Man and Captain America attempt to stop Xandu, but the villain is ultimately stopped by his former wife.
The Wand is used as a weapon used by criminal mastermind Imus Champion to defeat Squadron Supreme member Moonglow, and then as one of twelve objects of power collected by the villain Krona when he attempts to learn the secrets of creation. It is hidden in the Flash museum and won by Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. After an attempted theft from Doctor Strange the Wand is used briefly by an interdimensional being called the Traveller.
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