Curated playlist
DC Comics characters with superhuman senses
- SupermanThe first Superman was a homeless man tricked into taking a drug. Jerry Siegel wrote him as a villain in 1933.
- Wonder WomanWonder Woman's creator invented a device crucial to the lie detector.
- DeathstrokeDeathstroke wears a mask split between black and orange, and it covers a right eye that is missing. He is Slade Joseph Wilson, a mercenary and former U.S. Army soldier. Within the DC Universe he is regarded as the greatest and deadliest…
- HomelanderGarth Ennis, who created Homelander together with the artist Darick Robertson, offered a blunt way to picture him. In Ennis's words: "It might help to think of the Homelander as having all the self-control of… let's say… a…
- Billy ButcherBilly Butcher hunts gods, and he does it with no superpowers of his own. He is a fictional character, one of the two main protagonists of the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. He leads a group of…
- Brainiac (character)Brainiac made his debut in Action Comics #242, cover-dated July 1958, as a bald, green-skinned scientist who shrank Metropolis and sealed it in a bottle. Writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino created him for DC Comics. Few readers that…
- Doctor ManhattanDoctor Manhattan, the blue-skinned superhuman of the graphic novel Watchmen, wears a mark that nobody assigned to him. Military planners prepared a hat for his public unveiling, decorated with crossed ellipses meant to suggest an atom. Jon…
- Martian ManhunterMartian Manhunter, whose Martian name is J'onn J'onzz, first appeared in Detective Comics #225, dated November 1955. Writer Joseph Samachson and artist Joe Certa created him for DC Comics. He went on to become one of the seven founding…
- Shazam (DC Comics)Shazam, the comic book hero also called Captain Marvel, headlined an issue, Whiz Comics #2, that sold over 500,000 copies. The hero at its center is a boy who becomes a towering adult by speaking a single word. Yet this same character…
- Doomsday (DC Comics)Doomsday, the DC Comics supervillain created by Dan Jurgens, got his name from a note scribbled on a wall chart. In 1991, the editors and writers of the Superman comics held their annual brainstorming session. Some writers had noticed a…
- Black NoirBlack Noir is the name shared by three characters in The Boys, a story created in comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Eric Kripke later developed it for television. In both versions, Noir belongs to the Seven, a hedonistic and…
- Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)Supergirl, whose Kryptonian name is Kara Zor-El, first appeared in Action Comics #252 in May 1959. Writer Otto Binder created her, and artist Al Plastino designed her and drew that debut. Her story begins on Argo City, a fragment of…
- Mother's Milk (character)Mother's Milk, known to his teammates as M.M., is a character in the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. His name sounds like a crude joke. It is closer to a medical record. Cut off from one particular…
- SupergirlSupergirl died in issue #7 of Crisis on Infinite Earths, published in October 1985, and the aftermath was stranger than the death. Inside the story's world, nobody remembered that she had ever lived. A shift in editorial policy at DC…
- Lobo (character)Lobo is a DC Comics antihero whose name, in his alien tongue, roughly means he who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it. The name is not a boast. He comes from a planet called Czarnia, and he roams the galaxy as a mercenary and…