Death-Stalker
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Death-Stalker was a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. An enemy of Daredevil, he first appeared as the Exterminator in Daredevil Vol. 1, #39 (April 1968).
[edit] Character biography
His real name was Philip Wallace Sterling, and he was a wealthy man prior to embarking on a life of crime. When he first appeared as the Exterminator he recruited the Unholy Three. He constructed a "time displacer ray" ("t-ray") which could teleport its target into another dimension (possibly the Limbo from which Immortus hails). When Daredevil defeated the Exterminator and his agents he also destroyed the t-ray, accidentally bombarding the Exterminator with its strange energy. Sterling found himself trapped between two dimensions, able to return to Earth at will but only for a few hours at a time; furthermore, the mutation caused his skin to become chalk-white.
He stole a pair of gloves from AIM that gave him a "death-grip", and began calling himself the Death-Stalker as of Daredevil #113. He tried several times to kill Daredevil and build a new t-ray machine, but was each time beaten by Daredevil. Finally, he created a new group of Ani-Men and had them kidnap Matt Murdock, whose secret identity as Daredevil he had learned by observation from between dimensions. He killed the Ani-Men and attacked Daredevil, but materialized from his other dimension while in mid-leap through a gravestone; the trauma killed him instantly.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Due to his altered physiology he was capable of interdimensional travel; in effect being able to teleport from one location to another; seeming to appear out of nowhere. He carried death grip gloves which allowed him to kill a person upon contact.
