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Solomon Grundy is a DC Comics character, a large, strong zombie supervillain. He is an enemy of Green Lantern, and in particular of the first bearer of that title, Alan Scott. He first appeared in All-American Comics #61 (1944).
In the late 19th century, a man named Cyrus Gold was murdered and his body disposed of in Slaughter Swamp, near Gotham City. Fifty years later, the corpse was reanimated as a huge shambling figure (composed partly of the swamp matter that had accumulated around the body over the decades) with almost no memory of its past life. One of the few things it did recall was that it was "born on a Monday", from which it adopted the name of the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy. Strong, vicious, and not very bright, Solomon Grundy fell into a life of crime, attracting the attention of the Green Lantern, Alan Scott. Grundy proved to be a difficult opponent, unkillable (since he was already dead) and with an inherent resistance to Scott's powers (which could not affect wood, a substance of which Grundy's reassembled body was now largely composed). Green Lantern and Solomon Grundy clashed many times over the years.
The circumstances of Grundy's original resurrection have never been clearly explained, although it has been suggested that there may be some link with another DC character, the Swamp Thing, whose origin has some similar features.
In other media
Solomon Grundy appeared in the 1970s animated series Super Friends as a member of Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom, voiced by Jimmy Weldon.
He also appeared in the 2000s animated series Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, initially as a member of Lex Luthor's Injustice League, voiced by Mark Hamill.
External links
- Solomon Grundy (http://jl.toonzone.net/solomon/solomon.htm) at The Watchtower, a Justice League fan site
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