#Spectre dc appearances series

Mxyztplk jumps out a window, fooling Superman into thinking Mxyztplk is committing suicide. What is more, he destroys Superman's worldview of himself. In his first appearance, Mxyztplk wreaks havoc across Metropolis by using his powers to pull all manner of pranks, first pretending he got hit by a truck and killed, then increasing his weight when the ambulance gets there and waking up to shock them. Not being bound by physical laws, he can do things that seem to be magical. Mister Mxyztplk (the original spelling) was introduced in the Golden Age as an imp from the 'fifth dimension'. While Dana Snyder and the late comedian Gilbert Gottfried voiced the character in several voice-acting-related projects.įictional character biography Golden Age Cover to Action Comics #80 (January 1945), art by Wayne Boring.

#Spectre dc appearances series

He also appeared in the 2001 television series Smallville played by Trent Ford, and in the Arrowverse television series Supergirl played by Peter Gadiot in the second season, and by Thomas Lennon in the fifth and sixth seasons. He appeared in the 1993 television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, portrayed by Howie Mandel. Mxyzptlk has appeared in various television adaptations of Superman. This limitation of the character was modified in the 1986 Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot, upon which Mxyzptlk changes his condition to leave to a new requirement each story, such as having Superman succeed in getting him to paint his own face blue. In most of Mxyzptlk's appearances in DC Comics, he can be stopped only by tricking him into saying or spelling his own name backwards, which will return him to his home in the fifth dimension and keep him there for a minimum of 90 days. Due to publishing lag time, the character saw print first in the Superman daily comic strip by writer Whitney Ellsworth and artist Wayne Boring. Mxyztplk' (the original spelling), by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Ira Yarborough. Mxyzptlk was created to appear in Superman #30 (September / October 1944), in the story 'The Mysterious Mr. His portrayal has varied, with him being an outright supervillain in some media, and an antihero in others. Mxyzptlk possesses reality-warping powers with which he enjoys tormenting Superman or making life difficult. He is usually presented as a trickster in the classical mythological sense. Mister Mxyzptlk ( / ˌ m ɪ k s j ɛ z ˈ p ɪ t əl ɪ k/ MIKS-yez- PIT-əl-ik or / ˈ m ɪ k s ɪ l p l ɪ k/ MIK-sil-plik), sometimes called Mxy, is a character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. JSTOR ( September 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This article relies excessively on references to primary sources.