Fanatic

FANATIC

Real Name: Thurston Maw

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Criminal

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Plop! #8 (November-December, 1974)

Powers: The Fanatic was a brilliant inventor. He created the Helmet Gizmo, a device that let him enter paintings as though they possessed three-dimensional space.

History: (Plop! #8) - Thurston Maw gained a reputation as a brilliant but bizarre criminal under the name Fanatic. He received a visit from the Crusader while visiting that hero's hometown. He told the Crusader that he was totally reformed, having given up crime for painting. The Fanatic delivered his latest painting to Eliot Harlanson, one of the world's richest men, as an anonymous gift. Fanatic counted on Harlanson appreciating the painting and hanging it up alongside the rest of his priceless collection. The Fanatic used his Helmet Gizmo to enter his painting, then snuck into Harlanson's gallery with the intention of robbing the old man blind. Unfortunately for the criminal mastermind, the Crusader had left his own artwork in the gallery, a painting of a monster that came to life and ate the Fanatic.

Comments: Created by Steve Skeates & Sergio Aragones.

"A Likely Story" was narrated by Abel. Abel presented to it as a tribute to the Golden Age stories, and it most likely took place in the 1940s'.

Placing any Plop! story in mainstream DC continuity is kind of an iffy proposition. I say that since the narrators of all these stories were Cain, Abel or Eve that even if they didn't occur on Earth they could have easily happened in The Dreaming.

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