C'TH
Real Name: C'th
Class: Terrestrial species (Lizard Men) magic-user
Occupation: Worshipped as a god
Group Affiliation: None
Known Relatives: Nommo (ancestor)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Base- Gotham City, formerly ancient Babylon, Britain, North America
First Appearance: Detective Comics I #615 (June, 1990)
Powers: C'th was virtually immortal, and channeled dark magic using his staff and blood sacrifices.
History: (Demon III #12 (fb)) - C'th was the last of the Lizard Men, descendants of the fishgod Nommo, and he was worshipped as a god in ancient Babylon. He demanded constant sacrifice of virgins to power his mystic staff, and killed any of his followers who objected. After ruling for a thousand years his people, led by priests of Marduk, rebelled against him and drove him from Babylon. C'th fled to Britain, and after encountering the druids demanded their worship. They had their own gods, and drove him off with magic, so C'th fled again, this time to the Americas. The natives there rejected him as well, and teamed with the druids, who'd pursued C'th across the ocean to strip him of his power rod and entomb him under a serpent mound, where he lay for 2,000 years.
(Demon III #11-13) - Klarion, the Witch Boy, wanted revenge on Etrigan and after recruiting Harry Matthews, a friend of Etrigan's human host Jason Blood, began assembling a gang to confront the demon. He liberated Etrigan's enemy Tenzin Wyatt from is cell in Arkham Asylum, and then brought his familiar Teekl and a severely hungover Harry to a Gotham river, where he used a scrying crystal he found in Jason's apartment to locate and raise up Etrigan's foe C'th. Klarion took his gang to the Jolly Roger bar in Gotham, and took a femur from the bar's namesake decoration, imbued it with magic, and offered it to C'th as a new rod of power. C'th was underwhelmed, saying it would serve, but that a true rod of power was soaked in the blood of a hundred virgins. He related his history, from being worshipped as a god in ancient Babylon to how he ended up in the waters of Gotham, complaining all the while about his new lowly station in life. Klarion told his gang it was time to put his plan into motion, and had Harry call Jason Blood's friend Glenda Mark. When Harry and Klarion's gang arrived at Glenda's apartment Klarion immediately showed his true colors, having Teekl threaten Glenda, and pressing her friend Randu Singh to use his psi powers to locate Etrigan. C'th tried to kill a homeless man he spotted outside Glenda's window with his rod of power, but only managed to severely burn him. He complained to Klarion about wanting more power, and Klarion responded that after they destroyed Etrigan he would let C'th sacrifice Glenda. Randu's visions revealed that Jason had gone to the far East to find peace with the Order of the Green Dragon, but they used him as a pawn to summon the intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo to Earth to destroy the planet and fulfill their cult's prophecy. Etrigan teamed with Lobo to procure an atomic bomb, so Klarion and company drove to Gotham's Woodside Military Base. Klarion hypnotized Major General Whitehead, who was pleased to show his "nephew" where the nukes were stored, and when Etrigan and Lobo arrived Klarion's gang attacked.
(Demon III #14, 15) - Etrigan let Lobo take Klarion's gang on by himself while he rushed to the base's missile silo. Angered at being betrayed Etrigan told Klarion's group where Etrigan went while he went to find his own nuke on the base. Klarion's familiar Teekl followed Lobo to see what he was up to, and after transforming into her cat-lady form did a dance to bring him close so she could try to disembowel him. Lobo overpowered her, slamming her into a wall and leaving her in a heap before going back to his mission. Klarion and C'th focused their mystic power on Etrigan, staggering him, before Klarion cast a spell to turn him back into Jason Blood and stringing him up with cables. C'th demanded he be allowed to take Glenda as his sacrifice since he'd helped Klarion and the With-Boy told him to have fun. Lobo found his nuke, and the Phantom Stranger appeared to him, trying to appeal to his better nature to rethink what he was doing, but Lobo laughed him off. C'th grabbed Glenda, and prepared to kill her, but Lobo spotted them, and still angry at C'th attacking him unprovoked struck him, shoved his head in a tank cannon and fired it, blasting his head clean off. Glenda, with Randu and Harry following close behind, ran to the missile silo where she found Klarion torturing Jason with dark magic, and bashed him in the head with a nearby metal bar. She embraced Jason's broken and bloody form, and hoped he still lived. Glenda found that Jason was clinging to life, but just barely, and seeing no other choice she said the words that turned him back into Etrigan. Etrigan taunted her for her choice and teleported away to kill Lobo for his double-cross and end life on Earth by himself. After Klarion recovered he took C'th's rod of power and cast a spell that sent both Etrigan and Lobo's nuclear bomb off into the Beyond Region.
Comments: Created by Alan Grant & Norm Breyfogle.
C'th had a cameo in Demon III #21, 32.
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