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Edward Lansky (Earth-616)

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Real Name
Dr. Edward Lansky
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Identity

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Affiliation
Partner of Kraven the Hunter and of Tarantula. He also employed the Enforcers.

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Occupation
Former teacher and vice chancellor of the Empire State University

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History

Edward Lansky was the vice chancellor of the Empire State University, New York City. The city's major was preparing some budget cuts which would have damaged the University. To avoid this, Lansky prepared a criminal attack, using his knowledge and the University laboratory to create a suit. Using the name of Lightmaster he recruited criminals Kraven the Hunter and Tarantula to kidnap three important civil servants of the city government.

Spider-Man was attending to the ESU using his civil identity of Peter Parker. He discovered Lansky's plan and defeated him with an electric current he hoped would short circuit the suit. However, it interacted with the experimental suit and transformed Lansky in a pure light being, completely unstable.

After some weeks, the energy-mass of Lansky began to dissipate in the atmosphere, and he was forced to be always surrounded by light to survive. Lansky, motivated by revenge towards Spider-Man, attracted him to a modified storage house full with neon light, and fought him. During the fight, the Lightmaster overloaded New York's pwoer system and caused a brief blackout. When Manhattan was suddenly dark, the Lightmaster completely dissipated.

He did not die, however, instead going to a "light dimension". He could escape from there by storing enough physical strength to use a powerful light source on the physical world. The mutant Dazzler helped him to reach an existence, though a non-physical existence.

He escaped again from the dimension using Quasar's energy-bands, which allowed him to mind-control Quasar's body. The Lightmaster then designed and built an equipment to revert the accident which transformed him into a lightbeing. Although Quasar and Spider-Man tried to stop him, the Lightmaster used the device and became a human being again, with no super-human powers.

Currently Lansky is serving sentence on prison, although he has plans for his special suit, maybe even including modifications.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

As a being of pure light, he was able to hide his mind from Cable's telepathy.

Abilities

Lanksy is a doctor in Physics with a knowledge of Optics and Business.

Strength level

Human level

Paraphernalia

Equipment

  • Suit: Lansky uses a special suit which gives him the following powers:
    • Flight
    • Light absorption: The suit can absorb an amount of light or electricity protecting the user.
    • Light powers: The suit allows Lansky to create solid objects made of light, and also blind their opponents.
    • Light weakness: If Lanksy uses the suit without being surrounded by light, he would feel weaker and weaker until he would became a "living light being", with all the powers of the suit.

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