Evil Star is the name of two supervillains appearing in DC Comics publications.
29-563: The Guy Pompton version of Evil Star debuted in All-Star Comics #44 and was created by John Broome and Irwin Hasen . The alien version of Evil Star first appeared in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #37 (June 1965) and was created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane . Guy Pompton is a crime lord and the owner of Ace Movie Rental Agency. He dons a costumed identity to stop a movie studio from completing
58-823: A "New Look" that premiered in Detective Comics #327 (May 1964). In the late 1960s, Broome and his wife, Peggy, moved to Paris, France, where he continued to script for DC Comics. His last Batman story, "Public Luna-Tic Number One!", was published in Detective Comics #388 (June 1969). His final Flash story, "The Bride Cast Two Shadows", appeared in The Flash #194 (Feb. 1970), and his final Green Lantern, "The Golden Obelisk of Qward", in Green Lantern #75 (March 1970). Broome then retired from comic-book scripting to travel and, eventually, teach English in Japan. He returned to
87-634: A film using a script that will expose his criminal activities and battles the Justice Society of America before being defeated. The second Evil Star is an alien scientist from the planet Aoran who invents the Starband to gain immortality. However, it corrupts his mind and prematurely ages the Aorans. After killing the Aorans, Evil Star becomes an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps and allies with Neron and
116-493: A two-page "Pals and Pastimes" humor strip, illustrated by Ray Gill , in Centaur Publications ' Funny Pages #7 (Dec. 1936). By 1942 he was writing text fillers for Fawcett Comics , at least one under the pseudonym Ron Broom . When his agent, Julius Schwartz , became an editor at what would become DC Comics during the 1930–40s " Golden Age of Comic Books ", Broome was recruited to write superhero stories starring
145-545: Is named the "Kane/Broome Institute for Space Studies". In the direct-to-DVD film Emerald Knights the Broome Kane Galaxy is likewise named for him and Gil Kane. In the 2011 Green Lantern movie , Broome's Bar is named after him. In the Green Lantern: The Animated Series episode "Steam Lantern," the eponymous character's real name is Gil Broome, Esq. In The Flash episode "The New Rogues",
174-399: Is the name of three American comic book series published by DC Comics , each a Western fiction omnibus featuring both continuing characters and anthological stories. The first ran from 1951 to 1961, the second from 1970 to 1972 and the third was part of The New 52 and ran from September 2011 to August 2014. The original All-Star Western began with #58 (May 1951), having taken over
203-706: The Atom , the Hawkman , or Doctor Mid-Nite , in titles including Sensation Comics , Comic Cavalcade , All Star Comics , All-American Comics , and Flash Comics . Broome and artist Irwin Hasen created the supervillain Per Degaton as a JSA antagonist in All Star Comics #35 (July 1947). His final Golden Age Green Lantern story appeared in the last issue of that character's title, Green Lantern #38 (May 1949), and his final JSA story in All Star Comics #57 (March 1951),
232-564: The Flash , Green Lantern , Sargon the Sorcerer and others. His first known script for the company was the 13-page Flash story "The City of Shifting Sand" in All-Flash #22 (May 1946). He wrote text fillers under the pen name John Osgood . Through the 1940s, Broome wrote primarily Green Lantern stories and the superhero team the Justice Society of America , and contributed an occasional tale starring
261-654: The Kroloteans , with the former enhancing his powers. In Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp 's The Green Lantern , alien slavers kill Evil Star and steal the Starband. Evil Star's primary weapon is the Starband, which grants him a prolonged lifespan, high-speed flight, telepathy, telekinesis, hard-light constructs, and the ability to generate illusions. Furthermore, he can generate "Starlings", smaller versions of him who possess similar abilities, but are incapable of acting without orders. John Broome (writer) John Broome (May 4, 1913 – March 14, 1999), who additionally used
290-656: The Star Sapphire in issue #16. Black Hand , a character featured prominently in the " Blackest Night " storyline in 2009–2010, debuted in issue #29 (June 1964) by Broome and Kane. The creative team created Guy Gardner in the story "Earth's Other Green Lantern!" in issue #59 (March 1968). Writer-editor Dennis Mallonee described Broome's work on Green Lantern as the only superhero series in which screwball comedy "was essentially realized", and called Broome "a genius. He wrote about Hal Jordan, not Green Lantern. Hal's total frustration with Carol's completely goofy 'independence'
319-513: The pseudonyms John Osgood and Edgar Ray Meritt , was an American comic book writer for DC Comics . Along with Gil Kane , he co-created the supervillain Sinestro . Broome was born Irving Broome to a Jewish family. As a youth, he enjoyed reading science fiction and began writing for science-fiction pulp magazines in the 1940s. By then he was already writing for some of the earliest American comic books to be published, beginning with
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#1733085162733348-763: The Flash mythos, Kid Flash and the Elongated Man were respectively introduced in issues #110 and 112 as allies of the speedster. Broome, with penciler Kane and editor-conceptualist Schwartz, created Hal Jordan , the Silver Age Green Lantern, in Showcase #22 (Oct. 1959). He became the character's primary scripter in Green Lantern's solo series as well. Broome's stories for the Green Lantern series included transforming Hal Jordan's love interest, Carol Ferris , into
377-591: The United States in 1998, attending his first comic-book convention, Comic-Con International . Broome died March 14, 1999, at age 85, in Chiang Mai , Thailand, while swimming in a hotel pool while vacationing with his wife. His last address of record was the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo , Japan, with his death certificate issued in New York State. Broome received a 1964 Alley Award for Best Short Story : "Doorway to
406-740: The Unknown!" in The Flash #148 (Nov. 1964), with artist Carmine Infantino . He received an Inkpot Award in 1998 and posthumously received the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing in 2009. An homage to Broome and artist Gil Kane appears in the novel In Darkest Night , which is set in the universe of the Justice League animated series. In the novel, a place in Coast City
435-692: The Wonder Dog #4 (Aug. 1952); the Phantom Stranger , also with Infantino, in Phantom Stranger #1 (Sept. 1952); and the post-apocalyptic heroes the Atomic Knights , with artist Murphy Anderson , in Strange Adventures #117 (June 1960). With the dawn of what fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books , Broome was instrumental in writing stories of two key characters who helped revive
464-449: The backup features stopped. Beginning with issue #21 the comic was about Jonah Hex and his adventures in the present. He meets the heroes of the present. Characters met in the present: The series was discontinued with issue #34 (released in August 2014). Vol. 2 of All-Star Western has been collected into Showcase Presents Jonah Hex : Vol. 3 of All-Star Western has been collected into
493-519: The character's subsequent series . He co-created several of the character's primary supervillain antagonists including Captain Boomerang in issue #117 (Dec. 1960), the 64th century villain Abra Kadabra in #128 (May 1962), and Professor Zoom in #139 (Sept. 1963). Captain Boomerang was featured in the 2016 Suicide Squad film and was portrayed by actor Jai Courtney . Other Broome additions to
522-531: The cover logo "Outlaw" now referring to the replacement-feature star, Billy the Kid . The Western "all-stars" now included such historical characters as Wild Bill Hickok , Buffalo Bill and Davy Crockett , in a mix of new stories and reprints, as well as DC stalwarts Pow-Wow Smith, El Diablo and Bat Lash . Issue #10 (February–March 1972) introduced the enduring and popular character Jonah Hex , created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga . Hex continued as
551-628: The industrial complex in which the Mirror Master and the Top gain their powers is Broome Industries. A character named Nathan Broome was created Jeremy Adams and Alejandro Germanico Benito Gonzalez also known as Xermanico in the Dawn of DC Green Lantern. He was Carol Farris's new boyfriend and fiancé, but she still had feelings for Hal and before they could vow at a superhero theme chapel in Las Vagas, She realized Hal
580-802: The last before its retitling as All-Star Western . As the new decade began, Broome wrote science-fiction stories for DC, both standalone tales—including "The Mind Robbers", in Mystery in Space #1 (May 1951), under the pseudonym Robert Stark —and continuing-character features, such as "Astra" (in Sensation Comics , one story of which teamed him with his future regular artist collaborator, Gil Kane ), and " Captain Comet ", which he created with penciler Carmine Infantino in Strange Adventures #9 (June 1951). For
609-546: The latter he used the pen name Edgar Ray Merritt , devised by his friend and editor Julius Schwartz , as a nod to fantasy writers Poe , Bradbury , and Abraham . Outside that genre, he wrote a large number of stories for the crime comics anthology Big Town , based on the radio and television shows. During this time, Broome created many DC characters and institutions, including the whimsical simian sleuth Detective Chimp , with artist Infantino, in The Adventures of Rex
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#1733085162733638-511: The moribund archetype of the superhero. Following the creation of an all new Flash , a.k.a. Barry Allen, who carried the superhero name from the original Golden Age Flash , by scripter Robert Kanigher and penciler Infantino in Showcase #4 (Oct 1956)—considered the comic that triggered the Silver Age—Broome wrote Flash stories beginning in that very issue. He wrote numerous Flash stories in
667-432: The number of its predecessor title, All Star Comics — a superhero omnibus that years before had introduced the enduring team the Justice Society of America . With the postwar decline in the popularity of superheroes, publisher DC Comics changed the series format and title. All-Star Western ran 62 bimonthly issues through #119 (July 1961). The cover logo did not include a hyphen until issue #108 (Sept. 1959), when it
696-622: The star of the comic when it changed its name to Weird Western Tales with issue #12 (July 1972), and he continued into issue #38 (Feb. 1977) of the 59-issue series. The series was revived as part of the line-wide The New 52 relaunch in September 2011, written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti with art by Moritat . The series followed the adventures of Jonah Hex and Amadeus Arkham in an Old West-version of Gotham City , with back-up tales featuring other Western characters such as: After issue #21
725-543: The writer-creator uncredited; and "Strong Bow", created by writer David Wood and artist Frank Giacoia . Other features that appeared through the years included " Super-Chief ", by writer Gardner Fox and artist Infantino; and, beginning with #67 (Nov. 1952), "Johnny Thunder", featuring the masked, vigilante persona of a schoolteacher in an Old West Mormon settlement. The character had been created by writer Kanigher and artist Toth in DC's All-American Comics in 1948. The series
754-463: Was in need of help when her Star Sapphire ring appears in front of her, and she left Nathan brokenhearted at the altar and the emotional spectrum of sadness found Nathan and he became villain known as the Sorrow Lantern and he vowed that everyone would feel his pain and sadness. Close proximity to Sorrow Lantern causes people to feel sad and lose all hope. All-Star Western All-Star Western
783-498: Was much reduced in size and placed above the much larger logo for what was then the title feature, " Johnny Thunder ". Johnny Thunder remained on the cover until the final issue, #119, occasionally sharing it with Madame .44, "the masked outlaw queen". The first issue contained the features " The Trigger Twins ", created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciler Carmine Infantino and running through #116; "Don Caballero", drawn by Gil Kane , and "Roving Ranger", penciled by Alex Toth ,
812-404: Was revived in the following decade, and ran 11 bimonthly issues (Sept. 1970 – May 1972) before changing its title and, slightly its format to become Weird Western Tales . All-Star Western vol. 2, #1 starred Pow-Wow Smith , scripted by John Broome , with art by Carmine Infantino . The next four starred the characters Outlaw and El Diablo . With issue #5, the character Outlaw was dropped, with
841-508: Was the reason I got a kick out of the early silver age Green Lantern." Comics historian Brian Cronin examined similar themes in Broome's work in a 2011 column. In 1964, Schwartz was made responsible for reviving the faded Batman titles and together with Broome and Infantino jettisoned the sillier aspects that had crept into the franchise such as Ace the Bathound and Bat-Mite and gave the character
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