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Deathstroke

Deathstroke
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Slade Wilson as Deathstroke. Cover of Deathstroke (vol. 2) #8; artwork by Jason Fabok
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance New Teen Titans #2 (December 1980)
Created by Marv Wolfman
George Pérez
In-story information
Alter ego Slade Joseph Wilson
Team affiliations United States Army
Injustice League
Suicide Squad
Secret Society of Super Villains
Titans East
H.I.V.E.
Checkmate
Team 7
League of Assassins
Partnerships William Randolph Wintergreen
Talia al Ghul
Abilities
  • Utilizes 90% of his brain capacity
  • Extremely skilled military tactician
  • Enhanced physical and mental attributes
  • Superhuman strength, speed, agility, and durability
  • Regenerative healing factor
  • Master swordsman and marksman
  • Master martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant
  • Access to high-tech weapons, gadgets, and suits
  • Mastery of bojutsu and jojutsu
  • Multilingual
Deathstroke the Terminator
Series publication information
Schedule Monthly (vol. 1-3)
Bimonthly (vol. 4)
Format Ongoing
Publication date (vol. 1)
August 1991 – Jun 1996
(vol. 2)
November 2011 – July 2013
(vol. 3)
October 2014 – July 2016
(vol. 4)
August 2016 – present
Number of issues (vol. 1): 60 + 4 Annuals
(vol. 2): 20 + 0
(vol. 3): 20 + 2 Annuals
(vol. 4): 9 + Rebirth one-shot(as of December 2016)
Creative team
Writer(s) Marv Wolfman
Penciller(s) Steve Erwin
Inker(s) Will Blyberg
Collected editions
Deathstroke the Terminator: Full Cycle

Deathstroke (Slade Joseph Wilson) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. He is a mercenary and assassin who first appeared in The New Teen Titans (vol. 1) #2 (1980).Wizard magazine rated him the 24th greatest villain of all time. Also, in 2009, Deathstroke was ranked as IGN's 32nd greatest comic book villain of all time.

Originally the archenemy of the Teen Titans, writers have developed him over the years as an adversary of other heroes in the DC Universe; parallels have been established between him and Batman. The character has been substantially adapted from the comics into multiple forms of media, including several Batman related projects and the Teen Titans animated series. Slade Wilson/Deathstroke later appeared on The CW's live action TV series Arrow, where he is portrayed by Manu Bennett. Joe Manganiello has been cast as Deathstroke for the DC Extended Universe film series.

Deathstroke the Terminator first appeared in 1980, in the second issue of the book New Teen Titans. He was originally introduced as "the Terminator", a mercenary who was completing the terms of a contract undertaken by his son Ravager.

Due to his popularity, Deathstroke received his own series, Deathstroke the Terminator, in 1991. It was retitled Deathstroke the Hunted for issues #0 and #41-45; and then simply Deathstroke for issues #46-60. The series was cancelled with issue #60. In total, Deathstroke ran for 65 issues (#1-60, plus 4 annuals and a special #0 issue).


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