Stalker (comics)
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 Cover of Stalker #1. Art by Steve Ditko |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Stalker #1, (July 1975) |
| Created by | Paul Levitz (writer) Steve Ditko (artist) |
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| Alter ego | Stalker |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength, senses and speed, various mystical abilities, expert fencer |
Stalker is a fictional antihero a swords and sorcery character published by DC Comics. The character debuted in Stalker #1 (July 1975), and was created by Paul Levitz and Steve Ditko.
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[edit] Publication history
The Stalker title and many others published by the company in the seventies were victims of the DC Comics Implosion.[1]
[edit] Fictional character biography
A young warrior seeking immortality and power challenges and defeats the Demon Lord Dgrth, winning immortality but losing his soul. The young warrior now known as Stalker the Soulless begins a quest to regain his lost soul. However, the more he traveled the greater his power grew, and the more he physically resembled Dgrth. Stalker eventually fights his way to the demon god in the depths of that dimension's netherworld, and defeats him, only to discover that the deity has already used of the energies of the traded soul. The only way to get his soul back would be to end the existence of that dimension's supreme deity, a solution which could only occur after the abolishment of all war.[2]
[edit] Other versions
- After the cancellation of the title, a version of Stalker appeared in All-Star Comics #1 featuring the Justice Society of America in a story which cast Stalker as an insane supervillain, destroying dimension after dimension in his quest to end all conflict.[3]
- Another version of Stalker appears in Wonder Woman vol. 3 #20, and requests that Wonder Woman kill a demon from his dimension named D'Grth.[4]
[edit] Notes
- The series takes place on a world that appears epic fantasy-based, but when the protagonist travels to his world's version of the underworld, men in astronaut garb can be seen among the hordes of doomed souls.
[edit] References
- ^ Fanzing 27 - July 2000 - The DC Implosion!
- ^ The Unofficial Stalker Biography
- ^ As seen in All-Star Comics #1 (May 1999):
- ^ As seen in Wonder Woman vol. 3 #20 (June 2008)
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