Glorious Godfrey

Glorious Godfrey
Glorious Godfrey from Forever People #7, artist Jack Kirby
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Forever People #3, (June 1971)
Created by	Jack Kirby (writer and artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Glorious Godfrey
Place of origin	Apokolips
Team affiliations	Darkseid's Elite Galaxy Communications
Notable aliases	G. Gordon Godfrey, Reverend G. Godfrey Goode, Godfrey
Abilities	Immortality Superhuman physical attributes Limited mind-control

Glorious Godfrey is a DC Comics supervillain who is part of The Fourth World series of comic books in the early 1970s.

Glorious Godfrey first appeared in Forever People #3 (June 1971) and was created by Jack Kirby.

Godfrey has a sister named Amazing Grace who is also a member of Darkseid's Elite. The siblings have similar powers. Whereas Amazing Grace's specialty is manipulation, Godfrey's is persuasion.

In his first appearance he confronts the Forever People, who had stumbled upon a recruitment program for Earth-based warriors for Darkseid. He personally leads an attack of Justifiers that almost kills the young warrior Serafin. Despite the efforts of the Forever People's semi-sentient Super-Cycle, Godfrey's attack would have succeeded in killing Serafin; however, Highfather chose at that moment to recall all his people (and the cycle) home via teleportation.

Godfrey remained a relatively unimportant character until 1986 (he had a total of three appearances over a decade and a half), when Legends (the first crossover since the Crisis on Infinite Earths) was published. In it, Darkseid attempts to deprive the world of its heroes, not only so that they would be ineffective against Darkseid, but also in the hopes that the people of Earth would more willingly surrender to his rule.

The first phase of the plan consists simply of creating immense amounts of collateral damage by sending creatures to Earth to fight the superheroes. The public begins to resent the heroes in their midst, and therefore Darkseid starts the second phase of his plan by sending the master manipulator Glorious Godfrey to Earth.

Assuming the identity of G. Gordon Godfrey (a reference to G. Gordon Liddy), he starts a hate campaign against the superheroes that proves to be very effective, riling the public and ultimately leading to a presidential decision to outlaw any super-heroic activity. The final phase of the plan consists of the Apokoliptian warhounds, cybernetic creatures that are bonded to human hosts, for which Godfrey is able to find an ample number of 'volunteers' among his hypnotized public. He leads his charges to Washington D.C., only to be confronted by a cadre of assembled heroes.