Lightmaster

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Lightmaster
Empire State University
AbilitiesPower suit grants:
Light manipulation
Flight
Construct generation

Lightmaster (real name Dr. Edward Lansky) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.[1]

Publication history

Lightmaster first appeared in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #3 and was created by Jim Shooter and Sal Buscema.[2]

Fictional character biography

Edward Lansky was born in

Empire State University who turned to crime and became a criminal mastermind as a way to prevent budget cuts for higher education that would have negatively affected the university.[3] As the Lightmaster, Lansky employed Kraven the Hunter and the Tarantula to help him kidnap several government officials of the city of New York who had initiated the budget cuts. The three were defeated by Spider-Man, who foiled the plot. Spider-Man ran a current of electricity through the Lightmaster's body suit.[4]

However, Spider-Man had inadvertently caused Lightmaster to become a being of unstable energy, dependent on constant exposure to light just to survive. Seeking revenge on Spider-Man, Lightmaster accidentally causes a

quantum bands and taking over Quasar's body. On this latter occasion, Lightmaster succeeded in returning himself to a normal physical existence, despite Spider-Man's interference.[7]

Lightmaster was later released into the custody of Genetech, who conducted experiments on him that made him more powerful, yet unstable. He was defeated by

Cloak and Dagger and taken back into custody by the Light Brigade.[8]

In a fight with

Cable, he had been hired by the "One World Church" to distribute the Façade Virus, which the OWC intended to use to turn everyone blue and thus eliminate racial divides. Cable subverted his control and instead turned everyone pink for two days, before publicly disabling the virus.[9]

Lightmaster was present at the Bar With No Name in New York when lawyer Mallory Book confronted the present villains because nobody wanted to hire her anymore since her affair with Awesome Andy. Two-Gun Kid beat up everyone when Batroc the Leaper treated Mallory badly.[10]

He appeared in Brand New Day as one of the villains in the bar.[11]

During the

Hood's crime syndicate and attacked a Skrull force.[12] He accompanies Hood and other associates when his crime syndicate attacks Mister Negative; the dispute is that the man is in charge of all of Chinatown's criminal operations and resists handing them over to the Hood.[13]

Following the

Rogue.[14]

Lightmaster later teamed up with the

Titania, and Whirlwind to fight Superior Spider-Man and the Superior Six as an incarnation of the Masters of Evil. During this time, it was revealed that Lightmaster is the father of Sun Girl II.[16]

Powers and abilities

Doctor Edward Lansky created a unique special body suit with a padded inner lining, a power armor suit which utilized "gravity-pump circuitry" to allow him to manipulate photons for a variety of effects. With it, he could fly; emit blinding flashes of light; create semi-solid, low-mass constructs; create concussive beams of force; or create ersatz brass knuckles to increase the power of his punches. The suit could absorb fairly large amounts of electrical energy without damaging the wearer. A sufficient amount of energy caused the circuitry to overload and converted the mass of Lansky's body into unstable "living energy."

Doctor Lansky is a genius in the field of physics with a gifted intellect, and has a Ph.D. in physics.

References

  1. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.[1]
  2. ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0
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  3. ISBN 978-1-4165-3141-8
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  4. ^ Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #3
  5. ^ Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #20
  6. ^ The Amazing Spider-Man #203
  7. ^ Marvel Team-Up #113
  8. ^ The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #26; The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #12; Web of Spider-Man Annual #8
  9. ^ Cable and Deadpool #4-5
  10. ^ She-Hulk vol. 2 #17
  11. ^ The Amazing Spider-Man #552
  12. ^ Secret Invasion #6
  13. ^ Dark Reign: Mister Negative #1-2 (2009)
  14. ^ X-Men: Legacy #275
  15. ^ Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5
  16. ^ Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #6

External links

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