Major Disaster
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Green Lantern #43 (March 1966) |
| Created by |
Gardner Fox Gil Kane |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Paul Booker |
| Team affiliations | Army of Crime Justice League Injustice League Suicide Squad SKULL |
| Notable aliases | Bennett Brodsky |
| Abilities | Alter probability to cause disasters (e.g. earthquakes, asteroid showers) force field generation, able to see strands of chaos |
| Altered in-story information for adaptations to other media | |
| Team affiliations | Secret Society of Super Villains (Justice League Unlimited) |
Major Disaster is a former DC Comics supervillain and reluctant amoral superhero.
Major Disaster debuted in Green Lantern (volume 2) # 43 and was created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane.
Paul Booker was nothing more than a cheap crook. On the run from the police, he found an unlocked apartment window and climbed in to hide out.
Unbeknownst to him, it belonged to Thomas Kalmaku, Green Lantern's former friend and confidant. Accidentally activating a hidden control panel, he discovered Kalmaku's casebook on Green Lantern. Using this, he found the secret identities of both Green Lantern and the Flash.
Armed with this knowledge, he decided to embark on a criminal career under the name of "Major Disaster," and hired a group of criminal scientists to create devices for him capable of causing natural disasters. Using his new powers, he set out to kill the crime fighters, but was defeated and was thought to have died in the ensuing explosion. However, Disaster was wearing a device that protected him from any disaster he created. This device made his atoms reform over time, invisibly returning him to human form. However, his luck against Green Lantern failed to improve, as he was defeated again.
After his defeat, Green Lantern used his ring to erase the memory of the Flash's secret identity and placed a mental block stopping him from telling anyone else Lantern's own identity.
Major Disaster threatened the United Nations on behalf of racist group Nurike. He attempted to destroy the UN Manhattan buildings using a master fissure he started, but was stopped by Karate Kid. He will later join forces with the Lord of Time in tormenting the Karate Kid.
Booker found that his power had started to internalize in him, but was growing in magnitude and slowly destroying him. He sought to remove the excess power by transferring it onto Superman, and was defeated again. Superman, aided by Batman, also defeated him when he joined General Scarr's Army of Crime.
Seeking to finally kill Green Lantern, Booker threatened to destroy the Baldwin Hills Dam unless Jordan faced him. At the time, John Stewart had taken the Green Lantern mantle and when he arrived at the dam, Disaster was confused, as he still believed Jordan was Green Lantern. Believing that Green Lantern was ridiculing him, he destroyed the dam and nearly the majority of Los Angeles. Due to one of Lantern's constructs, Disaster was defeated and went insane, believing everybody to be Green Lantern.
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