Real Name:
(comic) unknown; (real world) unnamed comic fan, then Jay Star, creator of
Ferrus.
Ferrus the Invincible
Real Name:
(comic) unknown; (real world) unnamed comic fan, then Jay Star, creator of
Ferrus.
Identity/Class: (comic) unknown; (real world) Magical being
Occupation: (comic) unknown; (real world) Killer
Affiliations: None known
Enemies: Ryan Dallion, Micki Foster Jack Marshak
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: (comic) unknown; (real world) New York
First Appearance: Friday the 13th: The Series #1.10 "Tales of the Undead" (Syndicated, 30th January 1988)
Powers/Abilities: Ferrus was an armour-plated superpowered humanoid. It was immune to almost any form of attack, and strong enough to smash steel or kill humans with a single blow.
History: (backstory to the series) Louis Vendredi sold his soul to the devil. In return for immortality, he would curse items and then sell them from his antiques shop to unsuspecting customers. Each item would activate in the hands of a susceptible person, granting them power of one sort or another, but at a terrible price. But Louis tried to break his deal, and was dragged into Hell for this breach. Micki and Ryan, two distant relatives, inherited the store, and along with Louis' old friend Jack, they now seek to track down and safely store all the cursed objects.
(Tales of the Undead episode) Ryan, a comics fan, is shopping in his local store. Another customer meanwhile wants to purchase an old and valuable issue of "Tales of the Undead", but when he is unable to, he tries to steal it instead. As soon as he touches the comic, he transforms into the lead character, Ferrus the Invincible, a monstrous armoured being. Ryan witnesses him killing the owner, before the creature knocks him unconscious and escapes from the store. Back at the antiques shop, Micki checks the ledger Uncle Louis kept track of sales in, and discovers that an unnamed magazine was purchased by him from Jay Star, artist and creator of Ferrus and Tales of the Undead. Star had long since dropped from sight, and was believed to be dead by comic fans, but the ledger includes an address, so he goes to check it out. He finds Star, still very much alive, but bitter because he feels he was cheated out of a fortune after his characters were bought off by a huge publishing company. Star tells Ryan that he was so angry, he even drew a comic where Ferrus was killed, but it was never published - he has the only existing copy. When Ryan informs him of the cursed comic, Star goes off in search of it, wanting to gain revenge on the company who took his character.
He finds the youth, who turns into Ferrus, only to be killed by Star, who knows the character's one weakness. Ryan and Micki discover he has done this, and track down Star's copy of the unpublished Tales of the Undead comic. Armed with this knowledge, they face Star, who uses the curse to become Ferrus, only to die the same way as the youth had. Ryan and Micki safely lock the comic away in the vault beneath the antiques shop.
Comments: In spite of using the term "real world" repeatedly in the profile above, please note that I don't actually mean any of the above really happened. I'm simply using that term to distinguish which events happened in the comic book depicted in the TV show Friday the 13th: The Series, and which events happened in the "real world" depicted on said TV show.
Jay Star was played by Ray Walston.
CLARIFICATIONS: None
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