Vulcan (DC Comics)
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Vulcan, is a fictional character from DC Comics, he is the second character to star in a book titled Son of Vulcan. The first was Johnny Mann, who was created by Charlton Comics in 1965 and later purchased by DC Comics in 1983.
In the modern version, Miguel Devante is known simply as Vulcan and first appears in Son of Vulcan vol. 2 #1 August 2005. He was created by Scott Beatty and Keron Grant.
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[edit] History
Long ago the White Martians created a metavirus, a metagene that could be passed from host to host via touch. This metavirus was responsible for the empowerment of the very first Son of Vulcan. From that time on the Vulcans passed the metavirus down in an unbroken line, sworn to hunt and kill White Martians.
[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Vulcan
Orphan Miguel "Mikey" Devante, 14, is taken hostage by Jason Woodrue a.k.a. the Floronic Man at the Big Belly Burger in Miguel's hometown of Charlton’s Point. A relatively unknown hero named Vulcan tells Mikey to free the other hostages while he battles the Floronic Man. Miguel stays back after freeing the other hostages to ensure Vulcan is safe. Miguel saves Vulcan from danger by chopping off Floronic Man's arm with Vulcan's sword. Vulcan chooses Miguel to be his successor and takes him from the Derby Youth Home orphanage to his base the Vulcan’s Forge.
[edit] Son of Vulcan
Before Miguel can be trained, Praetor, the computer for the Vulcan’s Forge, informs Vulcan that Floronic Man has escaped from custody. Vulcan and his new sidekick, Miguel, go to put Floronic Man back in custody. Miguel quickly realizes that they are not fighting the real Floronic Man for he has two arms and not one. Vulcan is killed by a female White Martian named A'Morr who was disguised as Floronic Man, but not before the Flame of Vulcan is passed on to Mikey.
Miguel returns to Vulcan's Forge, where Praetor asks him to verify himself. Pandora, an android assistant of Vulcan's, learns that Vulcan has been killed, and she goes to retrieve the sword and helmets were left behind in Miguel's hasty retreat. Praetor, realizing Miguel does not know anything, begins to scuttle the Forge and ejects Miguel into space. Pandora saves Miguel and they try to leave the Forge in a jumpjet. Praetor turns Pandora off but Mikey escapes with the deactivated Pandora.
[edit] Rogues Gallery
At the funeral for Vulcan, his old enemies, the Coalition of Crime (Witchazel, Dino-Mite, Monkey-in-the-Middle, Charliehorse, Little B.U.D.D.Y., Flex, Scramjet, Fishmonger), attack Miguel, who is helped by an old Son of Vulcan named Barney Blaine. From Blaine, Miguel learns that the White Martians created the Sons of Vulcan with a metavirus.
Miguel is captured by a male White Martian named A'Monn A'Mokk but frees himself and destroys A'Mokk, but the human-hybrid children of A'Mokk and A'Morr, Sapling, Buster, Silhouette, Quaker and Blur escape. Blur is an albino teenager wearing an altered form of the Reverse Flash's costume, he and his four siblings still retain a latent fear of fire. The Funky Flashman never revealed whether or not Blur's human DNA came from Barry Allen or Professor Zoom. Sapling resembled Poison Ivy in powers and costume, and Buster seemed like a cross between Bizarro and Solomon Grundy. Silhouette seemed to be wearing a variant of Nightshade's old costume and had similar powers.
Miguel and the restored Pandora later go to San Francisco, where Miguel is seen talking to Beast Boy of the Teen Titans and presenting himself as simply Vulcan.
He appearance was in Infinite Crisis #6 as one of the spellcasters who summon the Spectre at Stonehenge. Seeing as Miguel's powers stem from a transferable Metagene virus it has yet to be revealed why he was there.
[edit] "Trial by Fire" aftermath
- See also: White Martian
In the JLA story arc "Trial by Fire", an ancient Martian entity called a Fernus takes possession of J'onn J'onzz and exterminates all remaining members of the White Martian race.
[edit] One Year Later
Vulcan recently appeared in JSA Classified #19, as an unwilling participant in one of Roulette's metahuman brawls, fighting against Bork of the Power Company.
[edit] Powers & Equipment
- Thanks to the unique Vulcan Metavirus, Miguel is able to generate intense heat from any part of his body.
- Miguel wears a special suit of body armor created by Vulcan, with gauntlets capable of generating forcefields.
- All Vulcans carry a special sword with a translucent monomolecular blade that can apparently cut through almost anything.
- The Vulcans and Sons of Vulcan had access to the Encyclopedae Vulcanis, the collected lore of everyone who had ever borne the mantle of Vulcan.
