Simon Dark
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section contains information about a scheduled or expected comic book release, or a series already in progress.
It is likely to contain tentative information and the content may change significantly as the product release approaches and more information becomes available.
|
 |
| Simon Dark | |
 If this infobox is not supposed to have an image, please add "|noimage=yes". |
|
| Publication information | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Simon Dark #1 (October, 2007)[1] |
| Created by | Steve Niles Scott Hampton |
| In story information | |
| Abilities | Super-strength[2] |
Simon Dark is a fictional comic book character in the DC Comics universe who first appeared in an ongoing eponymous series beginning in October 2007.
His name is also the name of a nursery rhyme[3] in Gotham City, the city in which he lives.[4]
Contents |
[edit] Fictional character biography
Simon Dark seems to have been created from a number of dead bodies and, as such, has no memory of his past. He exhibits some super-human abilities such as enhanced speed and agility, as well as extraordinary strength. He also states that he remembers everything he reads, which implies he may have a photographic memory. In the first issue, he claims he doesn't know where he came from nor how he came to inhabit Gotham City, but remembers he was smaller then and has grown since; however, his "straps have not". In the second issue more details of who he is are revealed, he is very young and the forensic says he must be around eighteen years old. He seems to be the interest of some kind of secret order, and at the end of the issue, one of its members appears to have a similar "straps" one in his hand which he hides under his cloak[5]
[edit] Nursery Rhyme
The children around the area that Simon Dark lives frequently sing an urban nursery rhyme about the character. The rhyme, or as much of it as has been revealed thus far, is as follows:
Lurks in Shadows. Hides in the dark.
Simon. Simon. Simon Dark.
If you're good he'll stay away.
If you're bad he'll make you pay.
Lurks in Shadows. Hides in the dark.
Simon. Simon. Simon Dark.
[edit] Notes
- ^ DC Comics profile for issue #1
- ^ Steve Niles (w), Scott Hampton (p,i). "What Simon Does" Simon Dark vol. 1, #1 (December, 2007) DC Comics (3-9)
- ^ Steve Niles (w), Scott Hampton (p,i). "What Simon Does" Simon Dark vol. 1, #1 (December, 2007) DC Comics (12/5-6)
- ^ Comics - October '07. DC Comics (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-16.
- ^ Niles, Steve (September 19, 2007). Steve Niles talks SIMON DARK comic. Fangoria. Retrieved on 2007-10-16.
[edit] References
- Simon Dark at the Comic Book DB
- Presenting Simon Dark, excerpt from a Comic Book Resources article.
