Jack O'Lantern (DC Comics)

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Jack O'Lantern

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Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance (I) Super Friends #8 (November 1977)
(II) Justice League Europe Annual #1 (1990)
Justice League Quarterly #14 (spring 1994)
Created by (I) E. Nelson Bridwell, Ramona Fradon
(III)Steven T. Seagle, Ken Hooper
In story information
Alter ego (I) Daniel Cormack
(II) Marvin Noronsa
(III) Liam McHugh
Team affiliations (I) Global Guardians
(III) Primal Force
Ultramarine Corps
Abilities (I, II) Mystical lantern provides flight, flame projection, teleportation, illusion casting, enhanced strength, fog creation.
(III) Has internalized the powers of the lantern used by his predecessors

Jack O'Lantern is the name, in DC Comics, of two superheroes and one supervillain.

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[edit] Fictional character biography

[edit] Daniel Cormack

The first Jack O'Lantern is Daniel Cormack of Ireland, who was born to a poor farmer who was granted a magic lantern by an Irish fairy. Cormack is a member of the Global Guardians, the international group of superheroes. His first recorded mission in Super Friends #9 is to help Green Lantern dismantle a bomb in Ireland. He appears in three solo back up stories in Super Friends #s 37, 40 and 44.

Cormack's first appearance in the mainstream DC Comics universe is DC Comics Presents #46, helping Superman find an ancient ruin in Ireland. He is later seen as part of a group of heroes from Ireland and England trying to save the world in the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

When the United Nations decide to fund the Justice League International, the Global Guardians find themselves without financial support, and disband. Cormack subsequently joins Rumaan Harjavti's army in Bialya.[1] After Harjavti is killed by the Queen Bee, Jack voluntarily joins forces with the villainess in taking over the world. He is left dying in a sewer after a battle with the Justice League.[2] He is found alive by his girlfriend Owlwoman in Justice League Quarterly #s 6 - 8 when the two heroes are found by Doctor Mist. They take a major part in reuniting the Global Guardians and fight with Sonar against the Justice League in Justice League Europe #s 49 and 50. Afterwards, Jack dies of natural causes.[3]

[edit] Marvin Noronsa

Marvin Noronsa is a native of Bailya who takes over the Jack O'Lantern identity at Queen Bee's behest. Noronsa is able to use Cormack's mystical lantern only after Queen Bee modifies it).[4] Noronsa is killed in an explosion caused by Sumaan Harjavti in Justice League America #55 (October 1991).

[edit] Liam McHugh

More recently, Cormack's cousin Liam McHugh takes up the mantle of Jack O'Lantern. McHugh is a former Irish freedom fighter who uses his powers to defend Irish sovereignty. He appears in three solo stories in Justice League Quarterly #14, 15 and 17. He becomes a member of Dr Mist's Leymen in Primal Force #0, appearing in every issue until the book was cancelled with issue 14. Liam is last seen as a member of the Ultramarine Corps in JLA #26 and JLA Classified #1-3.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Daniel Cormack and Marvin Noronsa have a mystical lantern that gives them the power of flight, flame projection, teleportation, illusion casting, enhanced strength, and the ability to create fogs. The power of the lantern is at its weakest at noon, and gradually increases to its peak at midnight.

Liam McHugh has found a way to internalize the powers of the mystical lantern, and no longer needs to carry it.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Justice League International #s 8, 9, 16, 17 and 27.
  2. ^ Captain Atom Annual #2, Justice League Europe #2-4.
  3. ^ Revealed in Primal Force #0.
  4. ^ Justice League Europe #29-30; Justice League #53 - 55.

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