El Diablo
El Diablo ( Spanish for "the devil ") is the name of several comic characters who have appeared since 1970, and three related series that the US publisher DC Comics published from 1989 to 2009.
Lazarus Lane
The comics around Lazarus Lane are part of the Western genre. The first story of the series appeared in issue # 2 of the US series All-Star Western from October 1970. The makers of the story - and thus creators of El Diablo - were the author Robert Kanigher and the illustrator Gray Morrow . In addition to other stories in All-Star Westerns , stories about the character were published in a four-part mini-series of the same name from DC's Vertigo imprint (Vol. 2; March to June 2001).
This version of the character is - especially visually, with a mustache and black mask - based closely on the figure of Zorro . The name Lazarus is a descriptive name that, based on the biblical "resurrection" Lazarus, expresses the resurrection of Lane, who was struck by lightning, from the dead.
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The main character of the stories is Lazarus Lane, who worked as a cashier in a bank in the Frontier area of the American Midwest during the 19th century . After Lane was gunned down in a robbery and shortly afterwards struck by lightning , he is resuscitated by an Indian shaman and - since then equipped with acrobatic, combative and shooting skills - from now on hunted criminals masked under the alias El Diablo .
Adaptation
The cartoon The Once and Future Thing, Part One: Weird Western Tales , which appeared in 2005 as the twelfth episode of the first season of the cartoon series The Justice League , presents the western version of El Diablo in a story that is a shared adventure between the DC western Describes characters Jonah Hex , Bat Lash, and Pow Wow Smith . In the US original, the actor Nestor Carbonell acted as El Diablo's dubbing voice.
Rafael Sandoval
Another version of the character, which shifts the plot to the 20th century, was the focus of the sixteen-part US series El Diablo (Vol. 1), which appeared from August 1989 to January 1991. The author of this series was Gerard Jones , the illustrator was Mike Parobeck .
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In the comics, Rafael Sandoval chooses the name El Diablo - after a boxer of that name he admires - when he embarks on a campaign against the deranged crimes in his hometown of Dos Rios. He tries to track down a serial arsonist, to stop a killer and to get rid of drug smuggling in his homeland.
Chato Santana
The current El Diablo is Chato Santana and made his first appearance in the six-part US series El Diablo (Vol. 3; November 2008 to April 2009). It was created by the scribe Jai Nitz , drawn by Phil Hester , and inked by Ande Parks .
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Chato Santana has the ability to control fire. He set fire to a house on behalf of a street gang and then learned that he was responsible for the deaths of his innocent wife and children. He then turned himself in to the police and was forcibly recruited (in the The New 52 stories) to the Suicide Squad .
Adaptation
In the DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad (2016) he is also a member of the group of the same name, but here he burns down his own house out of anger in which his wife and children are still. He is played by Jay Hernández .
literature
- Scott Beatty et al. a., Die DC Comics Enzyklopädie, Panini Verlags GmbH, Stuttgart March 2005, 1st edition, p. 103 (El Diablo I & II)
- Alex Irvine et al. a., Die Vertigo Enzyklopädie, Panini Verlags GmbH, Stuttgart December 2008, 1st edition, p. 210 (El Diablo)
Individual evidence
- ↑ El Diablo Vol 2. dc.wikia.com, 2017, accessed May 10, 2017 .
- ↑ El Diablo Vol 1. dc.wikia.com, 2017, accessed May 10, 2017 .
- ↑ El Diablo Vol 3. dc.wikia.com, 2017, accessed May 10, 2017 .