Comedian

Real Name: Edward Morgan Blake

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Government agent

Affiliations: Minutemen, Doctor Manhattan

Enemies: Moloch, Ozymandias, Hooded Justice

Known Relatives: Laurel Jane Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre, daughter)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Manhattan

First Appearance: Watchmen #1 (DC Comics)

Powers/Abilities:The Comedian is a brutal and skilled combatant, expert in both hand to hand combat and proficient with numerous weapons, including most guns and knives.

History: Considering life a bad joke, in the late 1930s Edward Blake became a sadistically violent costumed vigilante, the Comedian. He briefly joined Captain Metropolis' Minutemen, but was summarily expelled after attempting to rape his teammate Silk Spectre. During the Vietnam War he worked as a U.S. government operative, operating alongside Doctor Manhattan. Following the war he remained a government agent, and thus was one of only two costumed crimefighters who continued legally operating after a law was passed banning superheroes. However in the 1980s he stumbled across a conspiracy organized by former vigilante Ozymandias that was going to sacrifice millions of New Yorkers to bring about world peace. Even as cynically hardened as he was, this shook and horrified the Comedian, but before he could share what he had learned, Ozymandias broke into the Comedian's penthouse apartment, beat him to a pulp, and threw him through the window to fall to his death.

Comments: Created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, inspired by Charlton Comic's Peacemaker.

CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with

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