Starman

STARMAN

Real Name: Jack Knight

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Superhero, antiques dealer

Group Affiliation: formerly JSA

Known Relatives: Adele Doris Drew (mother, deceased), Daniel Knight (grandfather, deceased), David Knight (Starman, brother, deceased), Henry Knight (great-uncle), Kyle Theo Knight (son), Ted Knight (Starman, father, deceased),

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Opal City, Maryland

First Appearance: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #1 (September, 1994)

Powers: Starman wielded the cosmic rod, which let him fly and shot blasts of solar energy.

History:

(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Starman was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

(Spectre III #62) - Corrigan decided to give up the mantle of the Spectre, at last seeking peace in death. Craemer arranged for his bones to be buried in a small grave, and performed a funeral service, with all of the friends Corrigan met as the Spectre attending, including Starman and Ted. The Spectre-Force vanished and Jim ascended to Heaven.

(JSA Secret Files #1) - Ted Knight told his son about the death of Sandman I and asked him to attend the funeral.

(JSA #2) - Starman and the newly reformed JSA found out why Scarab needed their help. A new Dr. Fate was about to be born, and Mordu was trying to locate and kill the Fate-Child. The JSA were charged with finding the child before Mordu. Starman traveled to Venice with Flash I and Black Canary II. They encountered and defeated the Sons of Anubis, but did not find the Fate-Child in Venice.

(JSA #13) - Aboard Hourman III's timeship Metron explained to Starman and the JSA that Extant used stole Metron's Moebius Chair to travel to the end of creation and create a new universe of his own making. Unless the JSA stopped him, Extant's new universe would go backwards through time and erase the current universe.

(JLA #40) - Starman was among the legion of heroes summoned by the JLA to quell worldwide outbreaks of warfare that were incited by Mageddon.

(Martian Manhunter II #18, 19) - The JSA invited Martian Manhunter to their hq for a training session, and Manhunter easily dispatched Starman and the other new JSAers. During the combat Star-Spangled Kid lost her temper and almost accidentally fried Starman with a cosmic blast. Kanto and a squad of Parademons attacked JSA hq. Kanto exposed Star-Spangled Kid to the living death, stealing her soul and leaving her body in a coma, and took the soul back to Apokolips. Martian Manhunter and the JSA went to Apokolips to reclaim the Kid s soul, and allowed themselves to be captured by the Parademons. while Manhunter found Kanto, bested him in combat and learned that Darkseid was using the Kid s soul in the D.E.M., a technoorganic device that bonded with the Source Wall an used her soul to relay information back to him about the Source. Manhunter freed the JSA and Dr. Fate linked his soul with the Kid, allowing him to pull her from the Source and reunite her with her body.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - At Star-Spangled Kid s insistence Starman and the JSA attended Young Justice s Justice for All rally in Washington, as did Old Justice, the Titans and JLA. It was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged Starman and most of the heroes into children. Doiby Dickles pulled out an extraterrestrial aging gun to return the heroes to their proper age, but another of Klarion s spells intercepted his shot. The result was that the younger heroes present were aged to adulthood, but the other heroes remained children.

(Sins of Youth Secret Files #1, Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. #1) - The de-aged Starman and JSA had a dispute with the de-aged JLA that resulted in them brawling for hours. Once they made up the JSA and Doiby Dickles went aboard the Steel Eagle so they could travel to Myrg so Doiby could find another aging gun to reverse Klarion's spell.

(Sins of Youth: Starwoman and the JSA (Junior Society) #1) - Starman, Doiby and the JSA battled Prince Marieb on Myrg, retrieved an aging gun, and returned to Earth.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2) - Doiby tried using his new raygun on Starman and the other heroes affected by Klarion s spell but it had no effect. Since the heroes ages were skewed by a combination of magic and science, they would need Klarion's cooperation to undo the transformation. The heroes attacked Agenda s headquarters in Alaska, where Superboy, Superman, Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman were being held hostage. The hq was defended by the Junior Injustice Society, but the heroes prevailed, forced the Agenda to flee, and freed the prisoners. They then forced Klarion to team with Doiby and return everyone to their proper age.

(Day of Judgment #3, 4) - Starman and the JSA went to Fate's Tower, seeing him as the only one capable of dealing with Asmodel, who'd usurped the Spectre-Force. Fate appeared to them and told them Earth needed a doctor. Dr. Fate charged the soul of Green Lantern Hal Jordan with mystic energy, enabling him to become the Spectre's new host. A new threat emerged when Neron possessed Superman.

(Identity Crisis #1) - Jack was among the number of heroes who attended Sue Dibny's funeral.

omments: Created by James Robinson and Tony Harris.

Starman received a profile in JSA Secret Files #1. Starman (as Star-Spangled Kid) received a profile in Sins of Youth Secret Files #1 under the Junior Society of America entry.

Starman had cameos in Action Comics #650, JSA #27, 60, 66, 75, 76, JSA All-Stars #4 and JSA Secret Files #2.

There were pin-ups of Starman in Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery #1.