Captain Comet
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Captain Comet (Adam Blake) is a DC Comics superhero. Created by writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino, he first appeared in Strange Adventures # 9 (June 1951).
Captain Comet is a metahuman born a hundred thousand years before his time. His “metagene” was triggered by a comet shining its light upon him at birth. His powers include superhuman strength, heightened intelligence, telepathy, clairvoyance, the ability to survive in space by generating a powerful psychokinetic field.
Spending most of his time exploring outer space, he has had a sporadic presence in DC comic books throughout the years.
History
Blake discovered his skills while he was growing up, but he first used his skills to fight crime as an adult, when criminals attempted to steal an advanced scientific device invented by his friend, physics Professor Emery Zackro. After this adventure, Blake decided to become a superhero on a full-time basis, creating his own costume and fighting various threats.
Captain Comet's 1950s appearances ended with Strange Adventures # 49 (October, 1954), after which he ceased appearing for several decades.
He didn't reappear in comics until 1976, when comic writer Gerry Conway brought him back as a supporting character in Secret Society of Super Villains. In this series, it was revealed that Captain Comet had been exploring space since his final Strange Adventures appearance. Also during the series the Justice League grant him honorary member status. After the cancellation of Secret Society of Super Villains, he made various guest appearances in other DC titles until becoming a lead character in the 1990s L.E.G.I.O.N. series.
Infinite Crisis and \"One Year Later\"
Captain Comet was a regular in the 2005 Rann-Thanagar War mini-series.As of 2006 he will star the new 8-part limited series Mystery in Space written by Jim Starlin and pencilled by Shane Davis. Blake will share the series with short backup stories featuring the Weird. According to Starlin, Blake will drop the "Captain" from his name and will go by the moniker "Comet".
Powers
Captain Comet is the pinnacle of human evolution. His evolved mental functions not only give him genius level I.Q. but endows him with telepathy, a gift that enables him to read people's minds, communicate with his thoughts, and control minds. He also has the mental power of telekinesis, an ability that enables him to use his thoughts to move, lift, and alter matter without having any physical contact with it, mentally lift himself upwards to fly at high-speed, create barriers of psychic force to deflect most physical attacks, and fire bursts of psionic energy that strike a target with concussive impact. His telekinetic shields can be used to simultaneously protect himself from the vaccuum of space, while surrounding himself with an aura of oxygen to breathe. Captain Comet's brain also contains evolved sensory centers enabling him to clairvoyantly "see" events outside of his range of sight, or even, in a limited way, see the future. His evolved physiology makes him superhumanly strong and durable.Other Appearances
In the 1994 Alex Ross elseworlds mini-series Kingdom Come, Captain Comet is a member of Superman's reformed Justice League. He is chosen by Superman to be warden of the Gulag, the holding facility/prison for meta-humans who chose to defy the Justice League. He is killed in a prison riot.Captain Comet also makes an appearance in the final issue of the out-of-continuity Elseworlds miniseries The Golden Age, which takes place in 1951, very early in his crimefighting career.
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