Real name: Arthur Light
First appearance: Justice League of America I#12 (Jun. 1962)
Abilities: Powered suit with various light based attacks
Worst act: Murder, and NOTHING ELSE that will be discussed here.
Quote: "There is no Justice League anymore, young man! Step in--I want to tell you all about it!"
Gardner F. Fox (script), Mike Sekowsky (pencils), Bernard Sachs (inks)
Lord, considered skipping this guy entirely. I mean, for YEARS Doctor Light was basically the Barry Horowitz of DC. A jobber, punching way out of his weight class and getting the utter hell kicked out of him.
Then some jackass decided that comics had to be grown up and the single dumbest thing DC put out that decade went and made him utterly unusable as a villain or even a concept. "Oh no, he was NEVER really a loser, he was a bad ass! The JLA just mindwiped him and had kids fight him!"
Not sure who comes out looking worse in that situation. His Suicide Squad take was really the best, in that he was a total loser. His luck was the kind where he manages to escape Hell and come back to life...only to suffocate inside his coffin.
He then escapes Hell once again, only to mistaken for a vampire and shot with a crossbow.
His first story was a pretty basic. He shows up and when the story starts, is boasting of already taking down the JLA and forces Snapper Carr to write up the caper. He managed to get the drop on Aquaman and with his signal device, lure the JLA and send them to worlds that would render them helpless (i.e. a world of yellow for Green Lantern, fire for Martian Manhunter, etc.).
He's only foiled because Batman and Superman switched costumes. He then creates duplicates of himself to rob various light related items but team stops him.
His powers don't seem all that related to light but eh, 1960's. Things were more of a suggestion back then.
Honestly, killing him off via the Spectre was probably the best thing for him but I have a feeling some fanboy will bring him back. Sometimes dead is better.
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