Effigy (DC Comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | (As Martyn Van Wyck): Green Lantern (vol. 3) #110 (as Effigy): Green Lantern (vol. 3) #113 |
| Created by | Ron Marz Darryl Banks |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Martyn Van Wyck |
| Species | Metahuman |
| Team affiliations | Injustice League Secret Society of Super Villains |
| Abilities |
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Effigy (Martyn Van Wyck) is a supervillain appearing in media published by DC Comics, primarily as an enemy of Green Lantern.[1]
Fictional character biography
[edit]Martyn Van Wyck is a man from Seattle, Washington, who was raised by his alcoholic father following his mother's death. He aspires to become a musician, but is unable to find work.[2]
Van Wyck is later abducted by the Controllers, who experiment on him and give him fire-based abilities.[3] Believing their experiments to have failed, the Controllers return Van Wyck to Earth, where he becomes the villain Effigy.[2]
After Effigy battles Green Lantern, the Controllers see that their experiments were successful, capture Effigy, and brainwash him into serving them.[1] However, Effigy recovers, returns to Earth, and briefly enters a relationship with Killer Frost.[1][4]
In the One Year Later event, Effigy joins the Injustice League and Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains.[5] In Final Crisis, he is killed by the Spectre, who melts his body and traps him in a lantern.[6]
Powers and abilities
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Effigy possesses the ability to generate fire and create constructs from it. Additionally, he can fly and survive in the vacuum of space.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Beatty, Scott (2008), "Effigy", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The DC Comics Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, p. 112, ISBN 978-0-7566-4119-1, OCLC 213309017
- ^ a b Green Lantern (vol. 3) #113 (June 1999)
- ^ 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. 99. ISBN 978-1-4654-5357-0.
- ^ Green Lantern (vol. 3) #127 (August 2000)
- ^ Superman (vol. 2) #225 (March 2006)
- ^ Final Crisis: Revelations #1 (October 2008)
