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Stalker (DC Comics)
Stalker is a fictional antihero and swords and sorcery character published by DC Comics. The character, created by Paul Levitz and Steve Ditko, debuted in Stalker #1 (June/July 1975). The art in all four issues of Stalker was handled by the team of Ditko (pencils) and Wally Wood (inks).
An original incarnation of the Stalker appears in Batman Beyond, voiced by Carl Lumbly.
The Stalker title lasted four issues (July 1975 to Jan. 1976) before it was cancelled by DC.
When discussing the creation of the character, Levitz recalled: "Carmine had literally had stuck his head in and said, 'Joe, I need two more sword and sorcery books. One's coming out in January, you're two months late on it, and one's out in February, you're only one month late on it'. 'I may be getting the months wrong but I think that's about what it was'. He walks out and I say, 'I could write one, you know. I like sword and sorcery, I can try that, Joe'. And Joe said, 'All right, come in with something tomorrow'. I went home and I channeled my best Michael Moorcock and came up with Stalker. He handed it to Ditko, who needed work. And I'm just… amazed".
Levitz elaborated that inspiration for Stalker was Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series.
A young warrior seeking immortality and power challenges and defeats the Demon Lord Dgrth, winning immortality but losing his soul. The young warrior. now known as Stalker the Soulless, begins a quest to regain his lost soul. However, the more he traveled the greater his power grew, and the more he physically resembled Dgrth. Stalker eventually fights his way to the demon god in the depths of that dimension's netherworld, and defeats him, only to discover that the deity has already used up the energies of the traded soul. The only way to get his soul back would be to end the existence of that dimension's supreme deity, a solution which could only occur after the abolishment of all war.
Stalker the Souless later appeared in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #163, arriving on Earth alongside Claw the Unconquered, Isis, Arion and Starfire. This storyline suggested that all DC "heroic fantasy" worlds were creations of Jim Rook (Nightmaster)'s mind, but this has been contradicted since.[volume and issue needed]
Stalker appeared in All-Star Comics (vol. 2) #1, and as a recurring theme in a retroactive story featuring the Justice Society of America at the end of World War II, the so-called "JSA Returns" event. Here, the soulless Stalker had evolved into an insane demon/supervillain, looking a lot like Dgrth, and bent on destroying dimension after dimension in his quest to end all conflict by ending all life. He was defeated and seemingly destroyed in a time warp generated by the Hourman android.[volume and issue needed]
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Stalker (DC Comics)
Stalker is a fictional antihero and swords and sorcery character published by DC Comics. The character, created by Paul Levitz and Steve Ditko, debuted in Stalker #1 (June/July 1975). The art in all four issues of Stalker was handled by the team of Ditko (pencils) and Wally Wood (inks).
An original incarnation of the Stalker appears in Batman Beyond, voiced by Carl Lumbly.
The Stalker title lasted four issues (July 1975 to Jan. 1976) before it was cancelled by DC.
When discussing the creation of the character, Levitz recalled: "Carmine had literally had stuck his head in and said, 'Joe, I need two more sword and sorcery books. One's coming out in January, you're two months late on it, and one's out in February, you're only one month late on it'. 'I may be getting the months wrong but I think that's about what it was'. He walks out and I say, 'I could write one, you know. I like sword and sorcery, I can try that, Joe'. And Joe said, 'All right, come in with something tomorrow'. I went home and I channeled my best Michael Moorcock and came up with Stalker. He handed it to Ditko, who needed work. And I'm just… amazed".
Levitz elaborated that inspiration for Stalker was Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series.
A young warrior seeking immortality and power challenges and defeats the Demon Lord Dgrth, winning immortality but losing his soul. The young warrior. now known as Stalker the Soulless, begins a quest to regain his lost soul. However, the more he traveled the greater his power grew, and the more he physically resembled Dgrth. Stalker eventually fights his way to the demon god in the depths of that dimension's netherworld, and defeats him, only to discover that the deity has already used up the energies of the traded soul. The only way to get his soul back would be to end the existence of that dimension's supreme deity, a solution which could only occur after the abolishment of all war.
Stalker the Souless later appeared in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #163, arriving on Earth alongside Claw the Unconquered, Isis, Arion and Starfire. This storyline suggested that all DC "heroic fantasy" worlds were creations of Jim Rook (Nightmaster)'s mind, but this has been contradicted since.[volume and issue needed]
Stalker appeared in All-Star Comics (vol. 2) #1, and as a recurring theme in a retroactive story featuring the Justice Society of America at the end of World War II, the so-called "JSA Returns" event. Here, the soulless Stalker had evolved into an insane demon/supervillain, looking a lot like Dgrth, and bent on destroying dimension after dimension in his quest to end all conflict by ending all life. He was defeated and seemingly destroyed in a time warp generated by the Hourman android.[volume and issue needed]