Editing Count Vertigo (section)

{{Short description|Fictional character}}
{{Infobox comics character
|image=CountVertigo.jpg
|imagesize=200
|caption=Count Vertigo as depicted in ''Who's Who in the DC Universe'' #3 (October 1990). Art by Trevor Von Eeden.
|character_name=Count Vertigo
|full_name=Count Werner Vertigo <small>(1978&ndash;2011)</small><br/>Count Werner Zytle <small>(2011&ndash;present)</small>|publisher=[[DC Comics]]
|debut=''[[World's Finest Comics]]'' #251 (July 1978)
|creators= [[Gerry Conway]] (writer)<br>[[Trevor Von Eeden]] (penciller)<br>[[Vince Colletta]] (inker)
|species=[[Metahuman]]
|alliances=[[Secret Society of Super Villains]]<br />[[Checkmate (comics)|Checkmate]]<br />[[Suicide Squad]]<br />[[Injustice Society]]<br />[[Longbow Hunters]]<br />[[Injustice League]]
|aliases=White Queen's Knight
|powers=
*Flight
*Superb hand-to-hand combatant
*Magnetic boots
*Vertigo effect to alter the balance of others and induce dizziness or nausea
}}
'''Count Vertigo''' ('''Werner Zytle''') is a <!--Do not add "fictional" as it is tautological; supervillains (and characters in general) are by definition implied to be fictionalized to some extent.-->[[supervillain]] created by [[Gerry Conway]], [[Trevor Von Eeden]] and [[Vince Colletta]] as an enemy of [[Black Canary]], [[Batman]] and later [[Green Arrow]] in the [[DC Comics]] [[DC Universe|Universe]]. Count Vertigo is the last descendant of the royal family that ruled the small [[eastern European]] country of Vlatava that was taken over by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]s and later became devastated by the [[Spectre (DC Comics character)|Spectre]].<ref name="dc-ency">{{Cite book|last = Wallace|first = Dan|contribution = Count Vertigo|editor-last = Dougall|editor-first = Alastair|title = The DC Comics Encyclopedia|page = 88|publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]]|place = New York|year = 2008|isbn = 978-0-7566-4119-1|oclc = 213309017}}</ref>

Two incarnations of Count Vertigo, '''Cecil Adams''' and Werner Zytle, appear in ''[[Arrow (TV series)|Arrow]]'', portrayed by [[Seth Gabel]] and [[Peter Stormare]] respectively.