Micah Cole

MICAH COLE

Real Name: Micah Cole

Class: Human magic-user

Occupation: Occultist

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Washington, D.C., 1940s era

First Appearance: Spectre Annual II #1 (1995)

Powers: Micah Cole was a powerful sorcerer who knew how to perform spells that summoned powerful supernatural entities and bind them to his will.

History: (Spectre Annual II #1 (fb)) - Micah Cole was one of the world’s leading experts in the occult, second only to Aleister Crowley. During WWII the U.S. government was in an occult arm’s race with the Axis. Hitler was seeking the Spear of Destiny and the Ark of the covenant. The U.S. had sent an archaeologist to get to the Ark first, and built the Pentagon as part of a top-secret program codenamed the Nightmare Codex to harness the power of the Elder Gods. Micah Cole was recruited to open the gateway to summon an Elder God, and the magic was fueled by the souls of murderers executed in the electric chair. Micah, who was a discipline of the Elder Gods, killed an innocent man to bend the Elder God to his own designs. Dr. Fate and the Spectre tumbled onto his plans, and informed the military, but were too late to keep Micah from opening a gateway and summoning Koth-Shugoth. Micah was sure his master would keep him safe, but Spectre killed him, turning him into a dusty skeleton. Fate and Spectre combined their magic to keep Koth-Shugoth from fully emerging from a dimensional gateway, and Spectre Koth-Shugoth inside the gate, finding himself in the dimension God had exiled the Elder Gods too. He felt insignificant and powerless before Koth-Shugoth, but the Spectre-Force that acted as the vengeance of God took over, telling Koth-Shugoth he’d make an example of him for daring to cross the boundaries in which God permitted him to exist. Spectre returned to the Pentagon, assuring Fate that Koth-Shugoth would nevermore trouble mankind.

Comments: Created by John Ostrander & Pat Olliffe.