Eclipso

Eclipso is the title of a series of comic publications are issued by the U.S. publisher DC Comics since 1963.

The Eclipso comic books, which are located in the horror genre, going back to the authors Bob Haney and his artist Lee Elias, who developed the main character and the plot premise of the series in the early 1960s.

Publication data

The main character of Eclipso stories, a rogue troll the same name, was first introduced in the comic book House of Secrets # 61 from August 1963.

In the aftermath of Eclipso character came several years as a main character in a feature named after him in House of Secrets, a series in each issue several horror and horror stories were presented on. Among the artists who worked on the figure during this time included not only Haney and Elias, among others, the artist Alex Toth.

After the adjustment of House of Secrets of Eclipso character came a time as often as a villain in shows such as The Phantom Stranger, The Metal Men or Justice League, while Bruce Gordon was temporarily incorporated as a minor character in the Green Lantern science fiction series.

In the 1990s, DC revived the character and will begin dedicated to him a two-part mini-series - Eclipso: The Darkness Within - 1992 came on the market and the starting point for an ongoing series was, which appeared from 1992 to 1994. Author of this series was Robert Loren Fleming.

Action

At the beginning of the action of Eclipso is a young American scientist Bruce Gordon, who decides the Pacific island Diabolo to travel there to observe a rare natural spectacle, a solar eclipse ( eng. eclipse). Shortly after his arrival on Diabolo Gordon is suddenly embroiled in a dispute with a native healer: It comes to a fight in which the shaman is killed while Gordon only a slight carving in the face, the healer has taught him by a black diamond of which bears.

During soon held eclipse Gordon turns into a powerful creature known as Eclipso, who embodies the bad side of his personality. As Eclipso donates - the otherwise benign - Gordon all sorts of mischief: The split into two contrastive personalities it takes place in the same manner as the division of Doctor Jekyll in his good self and the evil Mr. Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novel of the same name.

To Eclipso revert back to Gordon, it must be with bright light - as a flashlight - are irradiated, which corresponds to the purposes of the reverse effect, the opposite of an eclipse of the sun. The task of re-transformation is then usually taken over by Gordons friend Simon Bennett and his daughter Mona.

In the Eclipso series of the 1990s finally finds out that the gruesome Eclipso is actually an evil God, the God of vengeance, who lives on the dark side of the moon, on people who feel a thirst for revenge, with its own personality burns to subvert and transform into images of himself.

In other media

Eclipso has a cameo appearance in the Justice League two-part episode " Eclipsed " ( in German unpublished). This version is the life force of the last Ophidians, a race of serpent people who fought against the mankind thousands of years ago and lost against them. In order to revenge, offset the last of the contortionists their spirit in a black diamond to possess anyone who touched the diamond. When they succeed in bringing almost the entire Justice League under their control, they try to destroy the sun; However, Flash can ward off the disaster at the last second. One of the figures, which is controlled by the diamond carries a while the original costume from Eclipso in this episode.