Major Disaster

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Major Disaster
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Major Disaster as depicted in JLA #80 (June 2003). Art by Duncan Rouleau (penciller), Aaron Sowd (inker), and David Baron (colorist).
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Green Lantern #43 (March 1966)
Created by Gardner Fox
Gil Kane
In-story information
Alter egoPaul Booker
Species Metahuman
Team affiliationsArmy of Crime
Justice League Antarctica
Injustice League
Suicide Squad
SKULL
Justice League Elite
Justice League
Notable aliasesBennett Brodsky
Abilities
  • Probability manipulation
  • Force field generation
  • Chaos sensing
  • Chaos manipulation
  • Disaster inducement

Major Disaster (Paul Booker) is a former DC Comics supervillain and reluctant amoral superhero. [1]

Contents

Publication history

Major Disaster first appeared in Green Lantern (volume 2) #43, and was created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane. [2]

Fictional character biography

Paul Booker is a low-level crook who accidentally discovers the secret identities of Green Lantern and the Flash after finding Thomas Kalmaku's casebook. [3] He then becomes a criminal using devices that can create natural disasters and protect him from them. Despite having his memories erased, Major Dissaster continues to battle Green Lantern and allies with Epoch. [4]

Major Disaster's debut. Art by Murphy Anderson. MDisaster.jpg
Major Disaster's debut. Art by Murphy Anderson.

Major Disaster later learns that he has gained his devices' power innately, but is slowly dying due to their effects. He joins the Injustice League, eventually reforms, and becomes a founding member of Justice League Antarctica.

After returning to crime, Major Disaster makes a deal with Neron to gain enhanced powers in exchange for his soul. Furthermore, he joins the Suicide Squad and a substitute Justice League group consisting of Nightwing, Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkgirl, Firestorm, Jason Blood, and Faith while the main group are believed dead.

In Infinite Crisis , Major Disaster is killed by Superboy-Prime. [5] He is later resurrected as a Black Lantern during the Blackest Night event and attempts to seek revenge before Prime kills him using a black ring. [6]

In The New 52 , Major Disaster is resurrected and returns to being a villain. [7] Furthermore, his daughter Penny, a wielder of the H-Dial who is also known as Minor Disaster, is introduced. [8]

Powers and abilities

Major Disaster possesses the ability to manipulate probability and cause natural disasters. He initially derives his powers from special devices before gaining them innately.

In other media

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  2. ↑ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016). The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 190. ISBN   978-1-4654-5357-0.
  3. ↑ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019). DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing. p. 111. ISBN   978-1-4654-8578-6.
  4. ↑ Karate Kid #12-15
  5. ↑ Infinite Crisis #7
  6. ↑ Adventure Comics (vol. 2) #4-5
  7. ↑ Superman/Wonder Woman #15
  8. ↑ Harley Quinn (vol. 3) #52
  9. ↑ "Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Saturday, May 9, 2009". May 9, 2009.
  10. ↑ "Major Disaster Voice - Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Show)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved June 15, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  11. ↑ Eisen, Andrew (October 4, 2013). "DC Characters and Objects - Scribblenauts Unmasked Guide". IGN. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
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