Shadow Thief

Shadow Thief
Carl Sands as depicted in Hawkman Vol. 5 #14 (September 2019).
Art by Patrick Olliffe (penciller) and Tom Palmer (inker).
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceCarl Sands:
The Brave and the Bold #36 (July 1961)
Carl Hammer:
Vigilante #14
(February 1985)
Created byCarl Sands:
Gardner Fox (writer)
Joe Kubert (artist)
Carl Hammer:
Marv Wolfman (writer)
Trevor Von Eeden (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoCarl Sands
Carl Hammer
Aviva Metula
Team affiliationsCarl Sands:
The Society
Injustice League
Aviva Metula:
Mossad
The Society
AbilitiesCarl Sands:
Dimensiometer grants:
Ability to shift his body into a two-dimensional, and intangible, shadow state
Deal with Neron:
transmogrify anything his power touches into shadow, teleportation using shadows
Starbreaker enhancement:
Individual shadow manipulation, drawing strength from shadows around him, darkness based constructs, inter-dimensional travel
Carl Hammer:
Shadow suit grants:
Ability to become invisible in shadows
Aviva Metula:
Trained martial artist
Shadow armor grants:
Intangibility
Flight
Teleportation
Limited shapeshifting

Shadow Thief is the name of three fictional supervillains published by DC Comics. The first is a recurring foe of Hawkman named Carl Sands.

Shadow Thief appeared in the seventh season episode of the Arrowverse television series Arrow, portrayed by Carmel Amit.

Publication history

The Carl Sands version of Shadow Thief first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #36 (July 1961) and was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Joe Kubert.[1]

The Carl Hammer version of Shadow Thief first appeared in Vigilante #14 (February 1985) and was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Trevor Von Eeden.

Fictional character biography

Carl Sands

Pre-Crisis version

Carl Sands was a career criminal who was conducting experiments on shadow projection while in jail. Because his shadow betrayed him to a policeman while he was robbing the safe in a store at night he was trying to make his shadow work for him. The experiments allowed him to make contact with an alien explorer named Thar Dan from the Xarapion dimension. In return for saving the creature's life, Sands was given a device known as a Dimensiometer and a pair of ebony gloves that allows him to hold objects while in shadow form.

Hawkman eventually defeats him, but Shadow Thief would come into conflict with him many times after that. He would later become a member of the Injustice Gang which came into conflict with Hawkman and his allies, the Justice League of America.[2] Eventually, the Phantom Stranger had him permanently stripped of the Dimensiometer.[3]

Post-Crisis/Post-Hawkworld version

While growing up in Japan, American Carl Sands learns ninjutsu techniques and becomes a rather undistinguished industrial saboteur, accepting unremarkable sums to hinder and eliminate his clients' rivals.

His pre-Crisis history remained canon, including his brief membership in the Injustice Gang. However, he has instead fought with the Golden Age Hawks rather than the Silver Age Katar and Shayera Hol.

Sometime after losing the belt to the Phantom Stranger, the Thanagarian criminal Byth Rok hires Sands to steal Hawkman and Hawkwoman's ship. To help Sands with this job, Byth gives him a shadow suit - a Thanagarian belt device/"shadow vest", which gave Sands the ability to shift his body into a shadow form (based on Thar Dan's Dimensiometer).

He sells his soul to Neron for more power. The demon king gave Sands a more powerful shadow suit which is tinged with magic and has vastly augmented abilities to enact greater criminal schemes.[4] Taking his newfound power out for a spin which he would spread chaos mayhem, all while enacting revenge that brings him into conflict with The Flash and Captain Marvel.[5]

Shadow Thief has entered into the employ of St. Roch art trader Kristopher Roderic. Sands has been sent to the ends of the Earth in service of Roderic's dark aims, and is hopeful that the unscrupulous collector will help him with a problem of his own.

During the events of Identity Crisis, Shadow Thief became deranged and began having delusional conversations with the Dimensiometer. He ended up killing Firestorm with Shining Knight's sword, for which he was prosecuted by Kate Spencer (a.k.a. Manhunter IX).[6]

Shadow Thief later appeared as a member of the Injustice League, and was one of the villains featured in Salvation Run.[7]

He is a member of Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains.[8]

He later joins forces with Starbreaker, and uses the Shadow Cabinet's "Shadowslide" teleportation system to temporarily increase his powers.[9][10]

Prison only temporarily stops him as he uses the shadows created by the interior of his mouth to escape by blinding and muffling Doctor Light when she comes to interrogate him. He is ultimately defeated by Light, and is rendered powerless after Firestorm uses his powers to seal his mouth, thus preventing him from conjuring shadows from within his body.

During Brightest Day, the cosmic entity known as the Starheart begins taking control of metahumans who possess magical or elemental abilities. Shadow Thief is among them and is driven insane by the Starheart's power.[11]

DC Rebirth

In "DC Rebirth", the Prime-Earth version of Carl Sands appears. He was a low-level threat to Hawkman who utilizes the Shadow Vest that enables him to shift through solid objects.[12] Shadow Thief met with the hologram of Apex Lex (a human/martian version of Lex Luthor) who offered to upgrade his Shadow Vest free of charge so that it would not only enable him to imitate shadows, but also to control them. Shadow Thief accepted as it would come in handy when fighting Hawkman.[13] To target Hawkman and also become the "master of darkness", Shadow Thief began to target Shade. When Shadow Thief steals Hawkman's shadow, it resulted in Hawkman having to work with Shade to track down Shadow Thief.[14] Knowing of Shadow Thief's plot, Shade took Hawkman to a room full of light that would prevent shadows from entering. Shadow Thief only breached the room by using the shadow of Shade's mouth. Then he stole Shade's shadow and fled to the Shadowlands.[13] When Hawkman and Shade entered the Shadowlands, Shadow Thief unleashed his shadow minions on them. Hawkman managed to survive the attacks.[15]

Carl Hammer

Carl Hammer, artist Trevor Von Eeden.

The second Shadow Thief is an African-American man known as "Carl Hammer". Hammer states that he paid more than one million dollars to have the suit made.[16]

Aviva Metula

In The New 52 reboot, a female Shadow Thief was introduced.[17][18]

In Stargirl's origin story, Shadow Thief was taking hostages to draw out a superhero. She managed to rout out Shadow Thief. When Stargirl returned home, she found that Shadow Thief arrived first, killed her brother, and wounded Barbara and Ted. Stargirl used this trauma to become a better superhero.[19]

During the Forever Evil storyline, it is revealed that this version of Shadow Thief is a former agent of Mossad named Aviva Metula. Metula wears a suit of armor called the Shadow Skin that gives her powers. She became Shadow Thief to kill alien invaders, making her a dangerous foe for Hawkman.[20] When Steve Trevor heads to the White House to find the President, he encounters Shadow Thief, Deathstroke, and Copperhead.[21]

Powers and abilities

Carl Sands uses a Dimensiometer, Thanagarian technology which enables him to transform into an intangible, shadow-like state. While the vest is activated, he can move quickly and silently across and through most surfaces and materials, all the while remaining impervious to physical contact and attack. Long-term side effects from prolonged use of the vest are unknown although, prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths, it was stated that overuse of the suit would accelerate Earth's climate into an ice age.

Shadow Thief would later sell his soul to Neron for augmented equipment. Now his suit, as was he, had been granted magical abilities which enabled him to convert objects and people into unsubstantiated shadowy material (a process which was inconceivably painful to living things), while transporting himself through shadows as well.[4][5]

Carl's abilities would be augmented further still when Starbreaker gives him the power to draw strength from the darkness within. Now no longer needing the shadow suit to utilize his powers, Sands can literally draw upon the absence of light that is situated all around him, enabling the manifestation of depleted photons to form constructs ranging from weapons to planetoids, creating portals to and from different locations (possibly even across dimensions) and even turn his opponents' shadows into living duplicates of themselves all with the same abilities.[22]

The shadow suit Carl Hammer had constructed only allowed him to become invisible in shadows; it did not render him intangible.

The Shadow Skin provides Aviva Metula with intangibility, teleportation, flight, and limited shapeshifting, enabling her to turn her arms into weapons. She is also a trained martial artist.

Other versions

  • An alternate universe incarnation of Shadow Thief appears in JLA: Another Nail. This version's abilities are derived from Xaraponian technology.
  • An alternate universe incarnation of Shadow Thief makes a cameo appearance in Kingdom Come.[23]
  • An alternate universe incarnation of Shadow Thief appears in Flashpoint. This version is an inmate of military Doom prison.[24]

In other media

Television

  • An original incarnation of Shadow Thief appears in the Superman episode "Night of the Living Shadows". This version is McFarlane, who lives in Metropolis' Suicide Slum and wields a LexCorp-designed suit.
  • An original incarnation of Shadow Thief appears in Justice League Unlimited, voiced by James Remar.[25] This version is the physical manifestation of Carter Hall's inner darkness who was created after he came into contact with the Absorbacron, a Thanagarian computer. He attempts to kill Green Lantern to have Hawkgirl to himself, only to be defeated and reabsorbed by Hall.
  • The Carl Sands incarnation of Shadow Thief appears in The Batman episode "What Goes Up...", voiced by Diedrich Bader.[25] This version works for Black Mask.
  • The Aviva Metula incarnation of Shadow Thief appears in the Arrow episode "Lost Canary", portrayed by Carmel Amit.[26] This version is an associate of Black Siren and Ricardo Diaz.

Video games

The Carl Sands incarnation of Shadow Thief appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.[27]

Miscellaneous

  • The Justice League Unlimited incarnation of Shadow Thief appears in a flashback in Justice League Beyond.[28][29] After escaping from Hall, he seeks revenge on Green Lantern by murdering his fiancé, Vixen. In retaliation, Green Lantern works with Hawkgirl and Adam Strange to find Shadow Thief, who he later kills and leaves to be eaten by alien beasts.
  • An unidentified Shadow Thief makes a cameo appearance in All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold #9.

References

  1. ^ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. pp. 313–314. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.
  2. ^ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019). DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-4654-8578-6.
  3. ^ Justice League of America #139. DC Comics.
  4. ^ a b Underworld Unleashed #1-3 (November-late December 1995)
  5. ^ a b The Flash (vol. 2) #107 (November 1995). DC Comics.
  6. ^ Identity Crisis #1-6. DC Comics.
  7. ^ Salvation Run #1-7 (2007-2008). DC Comics.
  8. ^ DC Universe #0. DC Comics.
  9. ^ Justice League of America (vol. 2) #29 (January 2009). DC Comics.
  10. ^ Justice League of America (vol. 2) #30 (February 2009). DC Comics.
  11. ^ Justice Society of America (vol. 3) #41. DC Comics.
  12. ^ DC's Year of the Villain Special #1. DC Comics.
  13. ^ a b Hawkman (vol. 5) #14. DC Comics.
  14. ^ Hawkman (vol. 5) #15. DC Comics.
  15. ^ Hawkman (vol. 5) #16. DC Comics.
  16. ^ Vigilante #14. DC Comics.
  17. ^ "THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN #17". dccomics.com. February 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-06.
  18. ^ "The Savage Hawkman #18". dccomics.com. February 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-06.
  19. ^ Justice League of America (vol. 3) #10-12. DC Comics.
  20. ^ Justice League of America #7.3. DC Comics.
  21. ^ Forever Evil: A.R.G.U.S. #1. DC Comics.
  22. ^ Justice League of America (vol. 2) #31-32
  23. ^ Kingdom Come #2 Annotations
  24. ^ Flashpoint: Legion of Doom #2 (July 2011). DC Comics.
  25. ^ a b "Shadow Thief Voices (DC Universe)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 21, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  26. ^ "Listings | TheFutonCritic.com - The Web's Best Television Resource". The Futon Critic. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  27. ^ Eisen, Andrew (October 2, 2013). "DC Characters and Objects - Scribblenauts Unmasked Guide". IGN. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  28. ^ Justice League Beyond #7 (May 2012). DC Comics.
  29. ^ Justice League Beyond #8 (June 2012). DC Comics.

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