The Great Comics Face-off game.

[JSayonara]

The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves was an American supernatural-anthology comic book published by Charlton Comics and best known as a showcase for the popular writer-artist Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man.

The eponymous Dr. M. T. Graves was a fictional character who hosted the stories in each issue of this title, and very occasionally took part in a tale.

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The Crypt-Keeper was the primary host of Tales from the Crypt published by EC Comics.
He was created by William Gaines & Al Feldstein.
 
He was introduced to the public in Crime Patrol #15, and he continued with that magazine through its changes in title and format.
He was a frightening presence in those early issues, a sinister hermit sitting framed in the lightless crypt's half-open door, his face all but hidden by the double curtain of his long white hair.
But he soon evolved into a more comedic horror host, delivering an irreverent and pun-filled commentary to lighten the horrific tone of the stories he introduced.

The Crypt-Keeper's duties were not limited to hosting.
He would occasionally appear as a character as well, and these appearances give the reader a glimpse of his biography.

"The Lower Berth" (Tales from the Crypt #33) gives an account of the circumstances surrounding his birth. "While the Cat's Away" (The Vault of Horror #34) conducts a tour of his house above and below ground.
"Horror beneath the Streets" (The Haunt of Fear #17) tells how he and his fellow GhouLunatics got their EC publishing contracts.

The Crypt-Keeper also served as the host of EC's 3-D comic book, Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror.

[JSayonara]

Ray Stantz, Ph.D., is a fictional scientist and member of the Ghostbusters, appearing in the Ghostbusters media.
He is one of the founding members of the team.

Ray is considered the "heart" of the Ghostbusters by the other members of the team. An expert on paranormal history and metallurgy, he is characterized by his almost childlike enthusiasm towards his work, and his forthright acceptance of paranormal activity.

Though he expresses skepticism toward Christianity, he is extremely knowledgeable about the Bible, even quoting a specific book and chapter--"I remember Revelation 7:12"-- about the end of the world, this is presumably because, as revealed in the Ghostbusters Video Game he attended a seminary at some stage in his life.

He is known for his wordy and overly technical explanations of scientific and paranormal phenomena.
Ray, along with Egon, is responsible for pioneering the Ghostbusters' theories and designing and building the equipment used for catching and containing ghosts.

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Merry, Girl of 1000 Gimmicks (Merry Pemberton), also known as Gimmick Girl is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe.
She first appeared in Star-Spangled Comics #81 and was created by Otto Binder & Win Mortimer.

Born Merry Creamer, she is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Pemberton, Sr., the parents of the original Star-Spangled Kid.
She soon adopts a crime-fighting persona and works with her brother and Stripesy, ultimately supplanting them in their own feature.

Merry eventually marries Henry King, Sr., the supervillain known as the original Brain Wave.
They had one son, Henry, Jr., known as Hank, who became the super-hero Brainwave, a member of Infinity Inc., a team founded by his uncle, Sylvester Pemberton, Jr., the Star-Spangled Kid.

References to Merry before the Crisis on Infinite Earths note that she died at some point.
More recently, however, she has been portrayed as alive. She appears in Young Justice as a member of Old Justice, a team of former Golden Age sidekicks who feel modern teen heroes are risking themselves and others.
During the Sins of Youth event it is revealed she particularly resents Stargirl, who at that time had taken her brother's name.

Merry assists dozens of other superheros, most of whom had changed ages, in battling Klarion the Witch Boy and other villains.
Old Justice finds itself in the parental role of supervising many super-powered adolescents.
She makes her peace with Stargirl, who has become an adult woman temporarily. During a multi-character battle in Alaska, Stargirl even saves Merry from an attacking, younger Amazo.
By the end of the story Merry has made her peace with both Stargirl and younger heroes in general.

After the JSA rescues her son from Black Adam and Mister Mind, Merry takes him back into her care.

[Hyperion]

El Diablo

Crypt Keeper

Ray Stantz

[Ballsac]

Orion
Flaming Carrot
Captain Canuck

Millie
Ash
Stingray

El Diablo
Crypt Keeper
Merry

[StrayCatBlues]

Orion
Carrot
Guardian
Angel
Firehawk
Tempest
El Diablo
Crypt Keeper
Ray Stantz

[John Moores]

El Diablo.
Dr. Graves (I actually had an issue of his comic as a kid!)
Ach. Ray, but I so nearly voted for Merry.

[darthfoley]

El Diablo

Crypt Keeper

Ray Stantz

Yep yep.

[Ebon]

Vibe
The Crypt-Keeper
Ray Stantz

[JSayonara]

John and Josey, we're in the last bracket now, so you both get to choose a character.

You should know the rules by now, but to whit:

Three Heroes or Anti-heroes, I pick one to match against a character of my choosing.

Pip Pip.

[Doc]

Orion
Flaming Carrot
Captain Canuck

Millie
Ash
Stingray

El Diablo
Crypt Keeper
Merry

Yes !!!

[JSayonara]

Halo is a fictional superheroine that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in a special insert in The Brave and the Bold #200, and was created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo.

Halo is a gestalt of a human woman named Violet Harper and an "Aurakle", an ancient energy-being resembling a sphere of iridescent colour.

The Aurakle species emerged from the Source billions of years ago at the dawn of time.
When sociopath Violet Harper was murdered by Syonide, an operative of the 100 and Tobias Whale, the Aurakle, who had been observing her out of curiosity, was sucked into the newly vacant body, which it found itself animating.
The shock of death and resurrection induced a profound amnesia in the new combined entity.
As such, she was a complete innocent who was discovered by Batman who recruits her for the Outsiders.

Regardless of her state of mind, Halo later has adventures in which she had to deal with the consequences of her body's previous occupant's actions, which required the assistance of the team to resolve. In one incident, early in her existence, Halo accesses the memories of the long-lived Aurakle and becomes emotional over the tendency of human beings to kill each other.

The young Halo is initially the legal ward of her friend and Outsiders teammate Katana. During her stint in the Outsiders, she gains a friend in new member Windfall.

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Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics Universe who first appeared in All-Star Squadron #25.

Known affectionately as "Jennie" or "Jen", she is the daughter of Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern.
Her mother is Rose Canton, the Golden Age villain known as Thorn.
Jennie-Lynn has a twin brother, Todd James Rice, who is the superhero Obsidian.

Along with Obsidian, Jade was a founding member of Infinity, Inc. She has worked with both the Justice League and Justice Society of America, as well as most recently being a member and eventual leader of the Outsiders.
She was also a member of the resurrected Green Lantern Corps after being given a spare power ring.
She has been romantically linked with Hank King (Brainwave) and with Green Lantern Kyle Rayner.
She was the first female Green Lantern from Earth

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Vigilante (Adrian Chase) first appeared in new Teen Titans Annual #2, he was created by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez.

Adrian Chase was a New York district attorney whose family was killed by mobsters. This caused Chase to seek justice in his own way as the Vigilante.
The character was one of the first amoral characters in American comic books, influenced by the Punisher from Marvel Comics and The Executioner series of novels.

After his initial appearance he gained his own ongoing series, initially written by Wolfman, and later included writers such as Alan Moore and Paul Kupperberg. In the early issues of the series, it was shown that Adrian took pains to make sure he did not kill his enemies - he would regularly use non-lethal weaponry to disable his opponents.
However, in issue 37, Vigilante allowed a police officer to die as a direct result of his actions.
Vigilante then became more violent and cared less about who was caught in the crossfire.

Throughout the series Chase was tormented over the justice of his actions and the pain it had brought to others. As early as the second issue of the series Chase flirted with abandoning his costumed identity after he savagely beat an ex-convict who turned out to be innocent.
Eventually Chase abandoned his identity as Vigilante, believing that he could be both more effective and also happier as a judge.
However, during his absence the identity of Vigilante was assumed, in succession, by two of his friends without his knowledge.

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Manhunter (Kate Spencer) is the eighth DC Comics character depicted using the name Manhunter, and the first female to do so.
The character first appears in Manhunter (vol. 3) #1.

Kate Spencer is a federal prosecutor who grows increasingly tired of seeing guilty criminals evade punishment.
Copperhead, a criminal on trial for multiple murders and cannibalism, avoids a death sentence and escapes from custody after killing two guards.

Angry, Kate steals equipment from an evidence room and kills Copperhead.
Calling herself Manhunter, Kate blackmails a former weapons manufacturer for numerous villains named Dylan Battles — who is in the Witness Protection Program — into building, maintaining, and upgrading her armor, weapons, and gadgets.

In addition to legal proceedings and fighting crime, Kate's life includes awkward relationships with her six-year-old son Ramsey and novelist ex-husband.
Kate's secret life as Manhunter cuts into her career and family life, but her co-counsel Damon Matthews covers for her.
Kate's father Walter Pratt spent time in prison for murdering her mother, and she comes to believe that her grandfather is superhero Al Pratt, the original Atom, a member of the Justice Society of America.



Through her friendship with Department of Extranormal Operations Agent Cameron Chase, Kate works for the DEO under the direction of Mr. Bones. During the Infinite Crisis, Oracle calls Kate, along with a number of low-powered heroes to join the Battle of Metropolis, and she was invited to join the Birds of Prey after founding member Black Canary left to join the Justice League.

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Detective Chimp is a character published by DC Comics.
He first appeared in Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 and was created by John Broome & Carmine Infantino.

When first introduced, the Detective Chimp was a simple, although intelligent, trained chimpanzee, who acted as a "helping mascot" for the local sheriff, after helping him to solve the murder of his chimpanzee trainer, Fred Thorpe.
He could not speak, but could understand humans and make himself understood.

The Chimp's origin has been revamped and elaborated on several times since his initial Silver Age appearances.
1989's Secret Origins #40 credited the experimentation of a microscopic alien race with Bobo's intelligence.
This origin has since been retconned, notably in the Day of Vengeance six part limited series.

In the latter it was shown that Bobo was captured in Equatorial Africa in 1953 by Fred Thorpe, who sought to train him for his carnival act: "Bobo the Detective Chimp".
For the act, the Detective Chimp was trained to answer some detective-related questions using a combination of signals and rewards, giving the illusion that he could "discover the deepest secrets of the public".

Bobo formed a strong bond with Thorpe because Thorpe took care of him, and gave him a simpler life than in the jungle.
The success of the act lasted until a trip to Florida, at which time Rex, the Wonder Dog, took him to the Fountain of Youth, where he gained the ability to speak to all living creatures, even humans, in their own language, as well as eternal youth.
The intelligence Bobo gained put a damper on the success of the sideshow act, and in at least once instance, he decided that a woman had in fact murdered her sister, and shared his insights with the local police.

At some point after this, Bobo was employed by the Bureau of Amplified Animals. It is not known how he left, or if the Bureau still exists.

After the death of Fred Thorpe, he began to work by himself.
Initially he did quite well, as a chimp detective was seen as a novelty.
During this successful period he was visited by another detective, John Jones, who thought Bobo's agency seemed to be doing better than his own.

However, as an ape, without civil rights and being unable to stand as a juridical person, he couldn't enforce unpaid bills.
When the public began to forget him, he became an alcoholic.
In Day of Vengeance #5, it is revealed that he had not left the other-dimensional Oblivion Bar since Jim Rook acquired it; neither had he left it at all during the previous two owners' tenures.

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Congorilla, originally a human character known as Congo Bill, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and Vertigo Comics.

Originally co-created by writer Whitney Ellsworth and artist George Papp, he was later transformed into Congorilla by Robert Bernstein and Howard Sherman.
The character first appeared in More Fun Comics #56

William "Congo Bill" Glenmorgan[1] was born in 1898, the son of a Scottish gamekeeper. At one point he was a member of the IRA,[2] and during World War I he served as soldier in the Battle of the Somme in France 1916 and also Battle of Flanders Field in Passendale, Belgium. He worked his way up a spy in Austria.[3] He later became a globe-trotting adventurer, and for a time worked for the Worldwide Insurance Company, protecting policies they had written and saving the company from fraudulent payouts.

Bill grew content to live in his adopted African home, swearing to protect it from harm. There he befriended a witch doctor known as Chief Kawolo. When Kawolo was mortally injured in a fall, he summoned Bill to his bedside, and offered him a magic ring. Kawolo told the skeptical Congo Bill that, by rubbing the ring, he could transfer his consciousness into the body of the legendary Golden Gorilla. He accepted the ring to humor his friend's dying wish. Several weeks later, an earthquake trapped Bill in a deep cave. With no possible escape, Congo Bill hopelessly rubbed the magic ring. Instantly, his mind was transported into the body of the Golden Gorilla. Racing to the cave-in, he used his massive strength to clear the blocked entrance and wondering what had become of his body without him being "home". He realized that when his consciousness entered the body of the Gorilla, the creature's consciousness entered his own body. Bill decides to use his new powers to fight crime in the jungle. He is later assisted by Janu, a young boy raised in the jungle.[4]
Justice League

Years later, Bill (now known as Congorilla) is trapped in his gorilla form upon the death of his human body. He becomes the protector of a band of gorillas, and friend of the South African hero Freedom Beast. When the gorillas and Freedom Beast are slaughtered by hunters, Congorilla decides to seek justice.[5] After the trail leads to the villain Prometheus, Congorilla teams up with Starman, and eventually a splinter faction of the Justice League. After Prometheus's death, Congorilla becomes a full time member of the Justice League.

During his time with the League, Bill faces off against such foes as the rogue Starheart and Eclipso, and becomes close friends with Starman and Supergirl. After Batman Inc. appoints the vigilante Batwing as the official Batman of Africa, Congorilla realizes that the continent is too big for one hero to handle. He ultimately chooses to resign from the JLA in order to help organize the superheroes of Africa into a more efficient team, as well as to find a worthy successor to carry on Freedom Beast's legacy

[darthfoley]

Jade
Kate
Chimp

[Scot Eric]

Vibe -- lesser of two lame-os
The Crypt-Keeper -- that EC shit is fucking amazing
Ray Stantz -- he imagined the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man -- that's enough for me

Jade -- never thought much of Halo. BTW -- does this mean all the Outsiders will be represented in this game?  Does the same apply to other teams in the DCU (JSA, JLA, Doom Patrol, Teen Titans and so on)?  Just wondering...
Vigilante -- the look alone earns him the right to get to the next round
Detective Chimp -- from Shadowpact to the Brave & Bold cartoon -- this is one awesome monkey

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