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The Prankster
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Name: Unknown
Identity/Class: High technology user
Occupation: Freedom fighter
Affiliations: Hiram Grave
Enemies: Bane, Captain Ludovic Wratt
Known Relatives: None known
Aliases: None known
Base of Operations: Ultrapolis
First Appearance: Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt #60 (Charlton Comics, November/December 1967)
Powers/Abilities: Armed with bizarre gadgets - a laughing gas spray, a jet powered hot air ballon, and a magic flute.
History: (Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt #60, "The Prankster") “Ultrapolis…A city which may never exist! But if it does, it will be a place ruled by brute force…Where love, laughter, music, art, every expression of human dignity can be a crime punishable by death! Where one man uses mankind’s most ancient weapons…wit, humor and courage…to combat overwhelming evil! His name. The Prankster.”
In a futuristic dystopia where humour is a crime, one man dares to stand up to the authorities which are trying to crush the human spirit. Armed with special equipment built by Dr.Hiram Grave in his hidden underground lab, the Prankster begins his career by preventing the public execution of a man who played music without a permit. This act draws the attention fo the tyrannical Bane who rules the city with an iron hand, an insane individual madly in love with his own computer, who orders his right hand man, Captain Wratt, to capture the freedom loving criminal.
Meanwhile the hero is fleeing the police, having just prevented them from murdering a woman believed to have written anti-Bane grafitti. Seeking to evade them, he disguises himself as an elderly man, but his pursuers penetrate his disguise, and prepare to execute him...
("The Vengeane of Wratt") The next episode of the story, which was never published.
(Aardvark-Vanaheim in 3-d #1, Normalman story) The Prankster is one of a number of heroes who tries to help Normalman across the road.
Comments: Created by Denny O'Neill (under the pseudonym Sergius O’Shaughnessy) and illustrated by Jim Aparo. The character was O'Neill's first creation, and only appeared once, in a back-up feature in the final issue of Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt.
Image and some information taken from Comic Book Profiles site, used with permission and gratitude to Rich Meyer, creator of same.
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