Mist (comics)
| The Mist | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC |
| First appearance | Adventure Comics #67 (October 1941) |
| Created by | Gardner Fox |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Kyle Nimbus |
| Team affiliations |
Injustice Society Secret Society of Super Villains |
| Notable aliases | Johnathon Smythe Nimbus |
| Abilities | Able to transform into a living vapor, becoming tangible and intangible at will. |
The Mist is the name of two DC Comics supervillains, archenemies of the original and 1990s Starman.
The Kyle Nimbus version of Mist first appears in Adventure Comics #67 and was created by Gardner Fox.
The Nash Nimbus version of Mist first appears in Starman Vol. 2 #0 and was created by James Robinson and Tony Harris.
The first Mist's name was Kyle Nimbus. He fought in World War I as a Captain in the Canadian Army, winning the Victoria Cross. He was also a scientist and created a device that turned his body into a gaseous form; he became a supervillain, first fighting the Golden Age Sandman under the name 'Johnathon Smythe', before changing his name to The Mist. In 1941 he undertook a crimewave in Opal City and was stopped by Ted Knight, the Golden Age Starman; he vowed revenge on Starman and became his nemesis.
He was a member of the Ultra-Humanite's incarnation of the Secret Society of Super Villains, and appeared during the late 1980s Starman series (chronicling the adventures of Will Payton), then using the name Nimbus.
The Mist had two children named Nash and Kyle.
In the early 1990s after Ted Knight had retired (following the events of Zero Hour), the Mist planned his final revenge on Starman and sent his son, also named Kyle, to kill Knight's son David, as well as nearly killing his second son, Jack and demolishing his home and kidnapping the elder Knight. In exchange for his father, Jack battled the younger Kyle, resulting in the junior Kyle's death, which drove The Mist mad. He was like this for some time until making a deal with the demon Neron, restoring his sanity. This allowed him to advise his daughter on joining Simon Culp's scheme to destroy Opal, and conversely kill Culp himself when he threatened her, on the grounds he "hated dwarfs". Ultimately, he revealed he was tired and had decided to end his life, planting a nuclear bomb in Opal City set to detonate at the moment of his death and then taking poison. However he failed to destroy the city as a terminally ill Ted Knight used an advanced version of his gravity rod to lift the entire building miles into the air; the two enemies made peace just before the Mist's heart stopped, killing them both.
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