King Faraday
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King Faraday is a fictional secret agent featured in DC Comics. Faraday first appeared in Danger Trail series 1 #1(July 1950), and was created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
An ex-soldier, he took a position as a counter-espionage agent for the U.S. government and engaged in a variety of standard spy-type capers. Some of his Danger Trail adventures were reprinted in Showcase #50 (May-June 1964) under the title "I-Spy". Faraday has since been incorporated full-bore into the DC Universe as a member of the Central Bureau of Intelligence. At one point, he was Nightshade's mentor. In fact, he had a hand in both her and Bronze Tiger being recruited into Task Force X. He has also teamed up with Batman a few times. On two of the occasions he has helped Batman in the capture of Two-Face.
One Year Later, he is a member of Checkmate, serving as the Bishop for White Queen Amanda Waller.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Faraday possesses no superhuman abilities but is a trained espionage agent and an expert hand-to-hand fighter and marksman.
[edit] Other media
King Faraday appears in Justice League Unlimited, voiced by Scott Patterson. His first appearance was in the episode "Double Date", in which he was a federal agent assigned to guard Steven Mandragora, but he escaped. It was established in the 3rd season opener "I Am Legion" that he was appointed as the Justice League's official liaison with the U.S. government. In the episode "To Another Shore", he and a group of government agents wearing jet packs appear in a scene, helping Wonder Woman in a fight against members of the Legion of Doom. One point of interest in the scene is when he refers to his fellow agents as "goldbrickin' yahoos", a catchphrase more associated with Nick Fury, a character Faraday preceded.
[edit] New Frontier
Actor Phil Morris stated in an interview that he will be voicing King Faraday in the direct-to-video adaptation of Darwyn Cooke's Justice League: The New Frontier.
