El Diablo (comics)
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El Diablo is a name shared by at least two fictional characters whose adventures have been published by DC Comics and that of a completely different character featured in Irrational Games' Freedom Force series of video games and a six-issue comic book miniseries based on those games published by Image Comics in 2005.
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[edit] Lazarus Lane
Lazarus Lane was the original El Diablo, operating in the latter half of the 19th Century in the old American West.
Lane was originally a bank teller who was nearly killed by a gang of thieves and put in a coma after being hit by lightning. After being revived by a Native American shaman, Lane became a vigilante and called himself El Diablo. He is one of several Wild West DC characters, along with Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, the original Pow-Wow Smith, and the original, heroic Trigger Twins. The name El Diablo means "the devil" in Spanish.
The second comics series published by DC under the El Diablo name was published under their Vertigo imprint as a mature readers title.
According to Jonah Hex #11(2006), Lazarus Lane is the host of a minor Spirit of Vengeance similar to the current Crimson Avenger.
[edit] Rafael Sandoval
The second iteration was created in 1988 by writer Gerard Jones and artist Mike Parobeck as a title set in the modern DC Universe.
As created by Jones and Parobeck, Rafael Sandoval was a rookie member of the city council of Dos Rios, Texas who created his version of El Diablo from an old boxing persona and local legends surrounding the Devil when stymied by his rookie status in local politics in trying to pursue the case of a serial insurance arsonist via official channels.
Subsequent efforts involved battles with illicit drug smugglers using maquiladora covers for their activities, a hunt for a serial killer, conflicts with human-smuggling operations, and with Sandoval's own conscience over how best to serve the people of Dos Rios.
This title lasted 16 months, and the Sandoval character has subsequently made guest appearances in one of the Justice League titles, in which he was possessed by the spirit of an Aztec god-emperor, and the Villains United Special when he was pulled out of retirement by Oracle to serve in her de facto Justice League, whereupon he was attacked by a member of the Royal Flush Gang during a battle at the prison Enclave M in the Sonora Valley. He was wounded in the battle, but saved from death by the warden of the facility.
[edit] One Year Later
In Blue Beetle v.3 # 8, a chain of restaurants operating under the El Diablo's name is established. What relationship the chain has to either Lane or Sandoval or any other character now using the alias is as yet unidentified.
[edit] Depictions in Other Media
In the Justice League Unlimited episode The Once and Future Thing: Weird Western Tales, the version used is that of the original hero from the Old West. His costume somewhat resembles that of Zorro. He is voiced by Nestor Carbonell.
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