Jericho (comics)
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Jericho
Art by George Pérez. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
as Joseph Wilson: Tales of the Teen Titans #43 (June 1984) as Jericho: Tales of the Teen Titans #44 (July 1984) |
| Created by |
Marv Wolfman George Pérez |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Joseph William Wilson |
| Team affiliations |
Teen Titans Wildebeest Society |
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Jericho (real name Joseph William Wilson) is a fictional character who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was originally a superhero and member of the Teen Titans during The New Teen Titans period by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. Since the early 1990s, Jericho has gone through periods of both sanity and insanity.
Jericho first appeared in Tales of the Teen Titans #43 and was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.
Jericho was created in the early 1980s, a few years after Marv Wolfman and George Pérez relaunched the Teen Titans series and turned it into a major hit for DC Comics. At the time, Wolfman and Pérez were interested in distancing the team from the Justice League, many of whose members had been mentors to the Titans. This meant introducing new characters such as the mystical Raven and the technological Cyborg, as well as changing some of the existing characters, such as having Dick Grayson trade in his identity as Robin in favor of Nightwing. Jericho was part of this process of establishing the team as its own creature rather than, in Pérez' words, a "Justice Little League". Marv Wolfman had decided on the name, which he got from an unused character from the previous Titans series, and with the idea of Jericho being the son of Deathstroke the Terminator, then the primary villain in the Titans series, but could not think of any other aspects of the character. George Pérez worked out the design, powers, and personality of Jericho and also suggested making the character mute. In something of a departure, he also insisted that Jericho's emotions be conveyed entirely through visuals, without the use of thought balloons. Pérez claims that Jericho is the first character which he created solely by himself.
Joseph was the youngest son of Slade Wilson (Deathstroke the Terminator) and Adeline Kane Wilson, and had a happy early childhood. Joseph was a musical prodigy, as well being an talented artist. When he was a child, he was held hostage by the terrorist Jackal, sent by the Quarac president for killing an important colonel, in an effort to obtain information from his father of whom hired him, who was secretly leading a double life as a mercenary. When Deathstroke refused to cooperate with Jackal, citing a violation of his professional code of ethics, and try to recuse Joseph by betting on his speed. Deathstroke managed to rescue his son, but not before one of Jackal's men cut his throat. As a result, Joseph was rendered mute.
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