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Characters : Lightmaster
File Photo AttributesHeight: 5'11" Weight: 175 lbs. Eyes: Brown. Hair: Brown. Features: Glows a lot. |
SummaryCreated By: Gerry Conway, Jim Shooter, and Sal Buscema. Real Name: Dr. Edward Lansky. Current Aliases: None. Former Aliases: El Lider (To Tarantula I.) Dual Identity: Known to authorities. Current Occupation: Encased in a big box. Former Occupation: Physics professor, Vice-Chancellor of Empire State University. Citizenship: USA Legal Status: A resident of Genetech. Place of Birth: New York City. Marital Status: Single. Known Relatives: None. Known Confidants: None. Known Allies: Tarantula I, Kraven the Hunter I, The Enforcers (Montana, Fancy Dan, Ox III.) Major Enemies: Spider-Man, White Tiger, Dazzler, Quasar, She-Hulk, Cloak and Dagger. Usual Bases: Genetech. Former Bases: New York City. Current Groups: None. Former Groups: None. Education: Doctorate in Physics. |
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Powers & ParaphenaliaStrength Level: When human, Lansky has normal strength. When living light, his strength is presumably many times greater. Powers: Flight. Light bursts and other manipulations of light. Abilities: Can convert light to solid objects either through his suit (when human) or through himself (when living light). Equipment: Flying carpet, cages, coal cars and other things made out of solid light. Weapons: Axes, mallets, giant hands, fly swatters, cymbals, vacuum cleaners, battering rams, lawn mowers and other things made out of solid light. Limitations: Needs constant supply of light to survive. |
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BackgroundDr. Edward Lansky is a former Professor of Physics specializing in Light Phenomena. As Vice-Chancellor of Empire State University, he is fighting a losing battle against budget cuts so he decides to hire Tarantula to 1) kidnap him (thereby removing himself from the list of suspects) and 2) kill the Mayor and make it look like a botched kidnapping. Spider-Man thwarts the murder attempt so Lansky hires Kraven the Hunter to assist Tarantula (Rodriguez) in the taking of ESU Chancellor Richard Gorman... Dead or Alive! Even though this kidnapping is successful, Lansky decides to rid himself of employees and take matters into his own hands. He uses his expertise in light to create a costume that can capture and manipulate light and becomes Lightmaster. In his battle with Spider-Man, Lansky claims that his motives were originally altruistic, that he was not planning to profit from his crimes except by becoming E.S.U.'s chancellor and fighting for the students. But now, overwhelmed by his new power, he plans to stay a super-villain. Spidey defeats him by running electricity through him.Later, Lansky discovers that the short-circuiting of his suit has caused a transformation in his body. His molecules become unstable and he needs to constantly surround himself with light in order to survive. Intent on revenge, he hires the Enforcers (Montana, Fancy Dan and Ox III) to flush Spider-Man out. Spidey defeats the Enforcers. Watching the battle from afar, Lightmaster believes he has figured out Spidey's secret identity. He is E.S.U. student Hector Ayala. Lightmaster kidnaps the student and plans to gain his revenge by revealing Hector's secret identity to the world. But Hector is not Spider-Man. Rather, he is the White Tiger. Together with Spider-Man, he forces Lansky to absorb so much light from a power station that he causes a blackout. With the sudden absence of power, Lightmaster appears to fade away to nothing. Instead, he is actually shunted into another dimension... a "light dimension". From that dimension, he senses the power of the Dazzler and uses her abilities to bring himself back to Earth. Spider-Man sends him back to the light dimension from whence he came. Sometime later, Lightmaster takes control of Quasar's energy wristbands and uses their power to escape the light dimension. Spider-Man joins the fight and Lightmaster is again defeated. But this time, with Quasar's help, Edward Lansky returns to his regular human form. In his most recent appearance, Lansky is released from prison into the care of Genetech, a company seeking access to the light dimension. He uses Genetech's machines to turn himself back into living light, and then seeks out Dagger (of Cloak and Dagger) in order to siphon her energy. But Cloak defeats him by absorbing him into his realm of darkness. When he is spit out again so that the Genetech crew can reclaim him, Lansky is little more than a skeleton with a trace of Lightmaster's light. But Genetech believes it can regenerate Lansky, so they stick him in a big regenerating box where, for all we know, he still is.
Thanks To:Some of the above information is extracted from the various versions of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe and the more recent Marvel Encyclopaedias.The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.
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