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Daniel Cormac is an Irish superhero operating under the name Jack O'Lantern as a member of the new Global Guardians.
History
Jack O'Lantern responded to a shipwreck off the coast of Ireland, but was called away by the offer of high rates from the superhero-for-hire app Heroz4U to appear at a Halloween party,[1] for which he was in popular demand.[2]
Jack would eventually quit the international superhero team the Global Guardians because he felt its efficacy to be limited by the bureaucracy of its backers, the United Nations. With his fellow heroes from around the world, he formed a new Global Guardians, who became fugitives for crossing international borders with impunity and took refuge in the other-dimensional Mirror World. When his fellow Global Guardians schismatics, Intercorps, warned Guardians past and present that the United States Government had sent an Amazo android to steal their powers, Jack engaged the robot in Berlin, deducing from its absorption of the Martian Manhunter's powers that it would likewise possess his weakness to fire.[3]
Jack O'Lantern and the new Global Guardians
When the Amazo had seemingly been defeated, he argued heatedly over his team's renegade status with his former friend and teammate Belphegor, who attempted to arrest the new Guardians. Instead, the heroes were teleported to the orbital headquarters of Intercorps and offered membership, though Jack disdained the prospect of joining the "communist space army." At that moment, the satellite was breached by the recovered Amazo, and Jack saved Belphegor, revealing that he had missed her and learning that she approved of his work in return, only for both to lose their powers to and rendered unconscious by the attacking android.[3]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Mystical Lantern: Jack O'Lantern was given a magical lantern by the queen of fairies.[3]
Notes
- Jack O'Lantern was created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon, first appearing in Super Friends #8. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Jack O'Lantern first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in One-Star Squadron #3 by Mark Russell and Steve Lieber.
Related
- 2 Appearances of Daniel Cormac (Prime Earth)
- 4 Images featuring Daniel Cormac (Prime Earth)
- Quotations by or about Daniel Cormac (Prime Earth)
- Character Gallery: Daniel Cormac (Prime Earth)
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