He is tortured by them until Batman, the new Rorschach and Ozymandias show up. The Comedian almost killed Marionette and Mime before being subdued by The Joker. He then hunted down the Marionette and the Mime, eventually disrupting a supervillain meeting during which he killed Typhoon and wounded the Riddler. Some time later, Blake broke into Lexcorp Tower, shot Lex Luthor and tried to kill Ozymandias. Manhattan met him as he washed up on the shore of Metropolis. Manhattan went back in time and teleported Blake away before he hit the ground, causing him to land in an ocean on Prime Earth. A few days later, Veidt kicked in the door of Blake's apartment beat him senseless and threw him from the window to his death. Sobbing, he told him that everything in life was a joke, yet he could not understand the one that he saw on the island, before departing in an inebriated stupor. In October of 1985, he visited Edgar Jacobi, his former arch-enemy "Moloch", while he was drunk. You're looking at it."Įddie somehow discovered Ozymandias' secret plan to attack New York City, and was horrified by the machinations, yet he remained silent about it. When Nite-Owl asked why they had become so violent, and what happened to the American Dream, Blake responded: "It came true. After the riot disperses, Nite Owl questioned his brutal choice of action, which Blake dismissed stating that they were protecting the people from themselves. Returning home, he assisted Nite Owl in attempting to quell a riot, only to become enraged after someone hit him in the head with a piece of debris, opening fire on the crowd with rubber bullets. He shot her in retaliation, telling Doctor Manhattan, who had watched the ordeal that, despite the numerous chances at preventing the entire indiscretion, he did nothing. Manhattan, receiving a disfiguring scar on the left side of his face at war's end by an enraged Vietnamese woman he had impregnated. However, their first meeting did not last long after the Comedian set fire to one of Metropolis's display and told everybody that the group was a joke.Īfter the Keene Act in the '70s, the Comedian joined the fight in Vietnam with Dr. In the late '60s, Blake joined a group called the Crimebusters, led by Captain Metropolis. Soon after the Minutemen disbanded in the 1950s, Blake was called to testify for the disappearance and killing of Hooded Justice, but he refused to testify. The Minutemen banned him from the group, though not before Blake held Hooded Justice at gunpoint and threatened to kill him and anyone else if they ever touched him again.Īfter being stabbed in the chest in 1941, he changed his green and purple costume to tough leather armor. He caused a fight with Hooded Justice, who proceeded to beat Blake in a rage. He was part of a group called the Minutemen, a team of eight masked crime-fighting vigilantes. At just sixteen years old, he adopted a yellow and purple costume, and began running savagely beating criminals, and sometimes their victims, using the moniker of the Comedian. He was born in 1924, and it was speculated that he had abusive parents. Little is known about Eddie Blake's early life.
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