Obsidian (DC)
Real Name: Todd James Rice
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Bio: Although he did not at first know it, Todd Rice was the child of Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern (now known as Sentinel). He was raised in Milwaukee by James Rice, a somewhat abusive father. Despite his beginnings however, he resolved to become a hero when he discovered both his shadow powers and his twin, Jennie-Lynn Hayden. Together they became Jade and Obsidian, founder members of the hero group Infinity Inc. which comprised those who continued the legacy of the JSA. However, his connection with the shadow realm which gave him his powers and the experience of seeing the blackness within many other souls caused him to go gradually insane, and after many of his team-mates were killed and the Justice League of which he was a part was disbanded, he began a sort of revenge campaign against both of his fathers - biological and adoptive. Under the influence of Ian Karkull, Obsidian had a conflict with the new JSA in Milwaukee which was ended by a sacrifice on the part of his adoptive father James Rice after a drawn-out battle with Sentinel. He later returned alongside other "princes of darkness" Mordru and Eclipso, confronting members of the JSA once again. By the end of the confrontation, he had been stripped of his shadow powers and returned to sanity.
Notes: Son of Green Lantern
(aka Sentinel) Alan Scott
Twin brother of Jade
- Jennie-Lynn Hayden
First Appearance: All-Star Squadron (1981) #25 Favorite Characters:
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Issue Appearances: 52 (2006)
52/WW III (2007)
TPB - 'DC: World War III' All-Star Squadron (1981)
Annual #2 - 'The Ultra War!' #25 - 'The Infinity Syndrome!' #26 - 'Talons Across Time!' #27 - 'A Spectre is Haunting the Multiverse!' America vs. the Justice Society (1985)
#1 - 'I Accuse' #2 - 'Trial By Congress' #4 - 'D-Day For Degation' Aquaman (1994)
Avengers/JLA (2003)
#4 - 'The Brave...and the Bold' Blackest Night (2009)
HC - 'Blackest Night' TPB - 'Blackest Night' #1 Blasters Special (1989)
Brightest Day (2010)
Countdown (2007)
#44 - 'Changes Of Address' Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985)
#1 - 'The Summoning!' #2 - 'Time And Time Again!' #3 - 'Oblivion Upon Us' #4 - 'And Thus Shall the World DIE!' #5 - 'Worlds In Limbo' #9 - 'War Zone' #10#11 - 'Aftershock' DC Sampler (1983)
DC Universe Online: Legends (2011)
DC Universe: Origins (2009)
TPB - 'DC Universe: Origins' DCU: Legacies (2010)
Eclipso (1992)
#16 - 'Fall Out!' #17 - 'Big Game' #18 - 'Works of Darkness' Final Crisis: Requiem (2008)
#1 - 'Final Crisis: Requiem Caretakers of Mars' Final Night (1996)
#3 - 'Keeping Hope Alive' Green Lantern (1960)
Green Lantern (1990)
#19 - 'Lantern's Light' #81 - 'Funeral for a Hero' #86 - 'Roomie' #109 - 'Ghost of Christmas Past' #152 - 'Out of Our Heads: Part Two' Green Lantern Corps Quarterly (1992)
Green Lantern Secret Files (1998)
Green Lantern Secret Files and Origins (2002)
Green Lantern/Sentinel: Heart of Darkness (1998)
#1 - 'Fathers & Sons' #2 - 'Like Father Like Son' #3 - 'Father's Day' Gunfire (1994)
#13 - 'This Is the Way the World Ends!' Guy Gardner: Warrior (1994)
#29 - 'It's My Party And I'll Fight If I Want To' #32 - 'The Way of the Warrior, Part 1: Give Me a Space to Call My Own' #33 - 'The Way of the Warrior, Part 4: Into the Valley of Death' #34 - 'The Way of the Warrior, Part 7: Deathrock: Justice is Coming' #39 - 'Merriment, Mistletoe, and...Mayhem!' Hawkman (1993)
#22 - 'The Way of the Warrior, Part 3: Storm Over Thanagar' #32 - 'Hunted' #33 - 'Prey' History of the DC Universe (1986)
Infinity Inc. (1984)
Annual 01 - 'Green Dreams & Precious Illusions' Annual 02Special 01 - 'Siding With the Outsiders' #1 - 'Generations!' #2 - 'Generations Part 2: A Gauntlet Hurled!' #3 - 'Generations Part 3: Solomon Grundy Goes Hollywood!' #4 - 'Generations Part 4: Origins and Outcasts!' #5 - 'Generations Part 5: Dead Men's Bluff!' #6 - 'Generations Part 6: Divide -- And Be Conquered!' #7 - 'Generations Part 7: Past Glories -- Future Tears!' #8 - 'Generations Part 8: Atomic Dreams - - Nuclear Nightmares!' #9 - 'Generations Part 9: How Green Was My Victory!' #10 - 'Generations Finale: A Dark and Deadly Place!' #11 - 'Aftermath and Prologue' #12 - 'Press Conference!' #14 - 'Concert in the Key of...Chroma' #15 - 'Song Without End -- Amen' #16 - 'They Call Him...Mr. Bones!' #17 - 'Home, Sweet Helix!' #18 - 'Helix Goes to Hollywood!* *(More or Less)' #19 - 'Last Crisis On Earth-Two!' #21 - 'Shadows At Midnight!' #22 - 'Uncivil Wars!' #24 - 'Back From The Future!' #25 - 'Business As Usual...' #26 - 'Come Helix and High Water!' #28 - 'Mr. Bones Gonna Rise Again.' #29 - 'Situation Terminal!' #30 - 'What Private Griefs...' #31 - 'Shock Treatment' #32 - '--You Can Call Me Psycho!' #33 - 'Obsidian: The Origin' #34 - 'Injustice For All!' #35 - 'Beat the Clock' #36 - 'Chaos In Calgary' #37 - 'The Heritage' #38 - 'Helix Takes the Stand' #39 - 'The Saga of Solomon Grundy' #40 - 'A Flash of Thunder' #41 - 'Bride of Lightning...Groom of Thunder!' #42 - 'Farewell to Fury!' #43 - 'Eye!' #44 - 'In the Midst of Death' #45 - 'Clusters, Part 2' #46 - 'Swamped!' #47 - 'Out Back and Back in Beverly Hills' #48 - 'The Making of A Man' #49 - 'The Sandman Cometh...' #50 - 'It's a Grimmworld After All' #51 - 'A Death in the Family' #52 - 'To Love and to Die in L.A.' #53 - 'Death, When it Must Come' Invasion (1988)
#2 - 'Battleground Earth' JLA (1997)
#1 - 'Them!' #27 - 'The Bigger They Come...' JLA 80-Page Giant (1998)
#3 - 'The Century War II' JSA (1999)
#1 - 'Justice Be Done' #4 - 'Ouroboros' #5 - 'Grounded' #7 - 'Darkness Falls' #8 - 'Shadowlands' #9 - 'Black Planet' #46 - 'Princes of Darkness, Part 1: Into the Valley' #47 - 'Princes of Darkness, Part 2: Eclipse' #48 - 'Princes of Darkness, Part 3: Enlightenment' #49 - 'Princes of Darkness, Part 4: Army of Darkness' #50 - 'Princes of Darkness, Part 5: The Last Light' #52 - 'Brand New Day' #54 - 'Virtue, Vice & Pumpkin Pie' #67 - 'The Autopsy' JSA 80-Page Giant 2010 (2010)
JSA Secret Files (1999)
JSA vs. Kobra (2009)
#1 - 'Engines of Faith, Part One: Bad Religion' #3 - 'Engines of Faith, Part Three: Misdirection' #4 - 'Engines of Faith, Part Four: Lightning In A Bottle' #5 - 'Engines of Faith, Part Five: Beating The Grass' #6 - 'Engines of Faith, Part Six: Shedding Skin' Justice League America (1989)
#0 - 'Home Again' #93 - 'The Baby Hunt' #94 - 'What Are You Made Of?' #95 - 'Where the Wild Things Are' #96 - 'Rush to Judgement' #97 - 'A Burning Coal' #98 - 'The Silent Place' #100 - 'Opening Up the Game' #101 - 'The Way of the Warrior, Part 2: Pressure Cooker' #102 - 'The Way of the Warrior, Part 5: Breakout! ' #103 - 'Oh, To Be Nobody' #104 - 'Pay the Reaper' #105 - 'Killer Elite' #106 - 'Up From the Underworld' #107 - 'The Devil's Due...' #108 - 'One Hand in Darkness...' #109 - 'All That Yazz' #110 - 'New Devils for Old' #111 - 'The Purge, Part 1: Now it's Time...' #112 - 'The Purge, Part 2: To Say Goodbye' #113 - 'The Purge, Part 3: To All Our Company' Justice League of America (2006)
#43 - 'Rise and Fall: All Along the Watchtower' #44 - 'Devil in the Details' #45 - 'Prelude to the Dark Things' #47#47 (Garner Cover)#48#48 (White Lantern Variant)#49 - 'The Bogeyman' #56 - 'Eclipso Rising, Part Three: The Battle for Emerald City' #57 - 'Eclipso Rising, Part Four: Wrath & Vengeance' #58 - 'Eclipso Rising, Part Five: The Destined and the Dying' #59 - 'Eclipso Rising, Part Six' Justice Society of America (2007)
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Special - 'The Last Days Of The Justice Society' Legends of the DCU: Crisis on Infinite Earths (1999)
Legion of Super-Heroes (1989)
Manhunter (2004)
TPB vol. 03 - 'Origins' TPB vol. 04 - 'Unleashed' TPB vol. 05 - 'Forgotten' #18 - 'Who's Your Daddy?, Part 3: Domestic Violence' #19 - 'Who's Your Daddy?, Part 4: Deaths in the Family' #20 - 'Psychobabble, Part 1' #23 - 'Psychobabble, Part Four: Phantom Pain' #25 - 'Two Superheroes and a Fed Walk into a Bar...' #30 - 'Unleashed, Conclusion: Hail and Farewell' #31 - 'Forgotten, Part One' #34 - 'Forgotten, Part Four' #37 - 'Family Business' #38 - 'Family Business' Millennium (1988)
#1 - 'Week One: Over' #5 - 'Week Five: In' #7 - 'Down!' #8 - 'The Rising and Advancing of Ten Spirits' Mister Miracle (1996)
#1 - 'Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make' #2 - '... Nor Iron Bars a Jail' Secret Origins (1986)
#9 - 'Starring The Golden Age Flash & The Star-Spangled Kid' Secret Six (2008)
#36 - 'Caution to the Wind, Part Two of Two: Blood Honor' Showcase '93 (1993)
Starman/Congorilla (2011)
Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. (1999)
#0 - 'A Chilly Day in Opal' #9 - 'The Final Hour for the 7 Soldiers of Victory' Superman (1987)
#46 - 'The World of Tomorrow' #83 - 'On the Edge' Superman: The Man of Steel (1991)
The DC Comics Encyclopedia (2004)
HC - 'The DC Comics Encyclopedia: Updated And Expanded' HC - 'The DC Comics Encyclopedia' The Flash (1987)
The New Teen Titans (1984)
#38 - 'Clusters Part One' The Outsiders (1985)
The Ray (1994)
The Shield (2009)
The Weird (1988)
Trinity (2008)
Who's Who in the DC Universe (1990)
#14 - 'Anarky to Wildebeest' #16 - 'Batman To Ambush Bug' Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985)
#11 - 'Icicle to Jonni Thunder' #17 - 'Nightshade to Persuader' Who's Who: Update '87 (1987)
#3 - 'Gray Man to Lionmane' #5 - 'Reaper to Zymyr plus Appendix' Zero Hour Sampler (1994)
nn - 'Zero Month Sampler' Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994)
Group Affiliation(s): Infinity, Inc. (01 - JSA Offshoot) Justice League America (DC) Justice Society of America (DC) Famous Quotes: - Add a Famous Quote None.
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