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Claw is a fictional character a sword and sorcery hero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Claw The Unconquered #1 (June 1975), and was created by David Michelinie and Ernie Chan. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Similar in many ways to Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian (and, more particuliarly, Marvel Comics' depiction of him) Claw is a wanderer and a barbarian in an apparently prehistoric age who battles various wizards, thieves, monsters and warriors who cross his path. Unlike Conan however, Claw has a deformed, claw-like right hand, the result of a curse which has been placed on his family. Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936)[1] was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. ...
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Publication history
Claw the Unconquered #1 debuted in mid-1975 as part of the first wave of the "DC Explosion", a period when DC Comics launched a record number of new titles on to the comic book market (16 new titles debuted in 1975 alone). Claw was one of several of these new series which were set in the "fantasy" or "sword and sorcery" genre, (others titles include Warlord, Stalker, Starfire, Nightmaster, Tor and Beowulf, Dragon Slayer). At the time DC's main rival Marvel Comics had found success in the genre with their Conan The Barbarian comics, and of all of DC's new fantasy characters Claw most closely resembles Conan in both his character and appearance (save the fact that Claw has a deformed hand). Claw The Unconquered was published bimonthly up until #9 (October, 1976), restarting again at #10 (May 1978). The entire series was written by Michelinie (though the never properly published #14 was credited to Tom DeFalco) and Chan remained on the title up to #7, with Keith Giffen taking over pencilling duties with #8. With the addition of Giffen, the series began to incorporate some sci-fi elements, moving away from its pure sword and sorcery beginnings. The relaunch of the series lasted just three issues, as it was suddenly cancelled with #12 (September 1978) as part of the "DC Implosion" when DC's comics line was drastically cut. The cancellation was so sudden that two further issues of the series had been fully written and drawn. These stories were published in Cancelled Comics Cavalcade #1 in 1978, (however only 35 copies of that comic were ever officially published). The character was revived in 1981 for a two part back up feature in Warlord #48-49 (August-September 1981) written by Jack C. Harris with art from Tom Yeates. This series tried to wrap up the story of Claw. The Warlord was a sword and sorcery comic book published by DC Comics from 1976 - 1989. ...
Stalker is a 4 issues comic-book limited series created in 1975 by Paul Levitz (writer), Steve Ditko (penciller) and Wally Wood (inker), and published by DC Comics. ...
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The DC Implosion is the informal label for the dramatic number of sudden cancellations among DC Comics publications in 1978. ...
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Fictional character biography
Cover to Claw #1, June 1975 Claw's (real name Valcan) adventures took place "in the realm of Pytharia" in a vaguely defined setting which resembled Earth's prehistory. His first adventure pitted him against "Occulas of the Yellow Eye" an Evil sorcerer and king who it is revealed, murdered Claw's father (who also had a deformed hand like his son). Occulas received a prophecy which predicted that a claw handed man would defeat him, and this is his reason for persecuting Valcan and his father. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Claw's origin was revealed in #9, where Valcan learns that his family is cursed to have demon hands throughout their bloodline as result of a a deal his father made with demons.
In later stories it was revealed that Claw existed on the same world (Pytharia) as the original Starfire II, which is apparently not Earth. And both Starfire and Claw were revealed as two of the "eternal champions of the Sornaii". The implications of this revelation were never explored as the series ended in a cliffhanger. Presumably writer Gerry Conway was inspired by the Eternal Champion concept of Michael Moorcock. Starfire is a DC Comics fictional superhero. ...
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Wonder Woman -
Main article: Wonder Woman Claw's first in continuity appearance in in over twenty years occurs in Wonder Woman #21 (August 2008), where Wonder Woman and Stalker recruit Claw and Beowulf for a mission to slay the Demon Lord Dgrth. For other uses, see Wonder Woman (disambiguation). ...
Stalker is a 4 issues comic-book limited series created in 1975 by Paul Levitz (writer), Steve Ditko (penciller) and Wally Wood (inker), and published by DC Comics. ...
Other versions
Red Sonja /Claw The Unconquered: Devil's Hands #4. Variant cover by Jim Lee. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 385 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (462 × 720 pixel, file size: 335 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Red Sonja /Claw The Unconquered: Devils Hands # 4. ...
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John Chan - See also: Primal Force
Another version of Claw is a superhero character created by Steven Seagle and Ken Hooper. He first appeared in Primal Force #1 (October, 1994). An Asian youth from Hong Kong, this Claw has no direct ties to the original Claw, although he bears an identical misshapen hand. Claw's real name was John Chan (possibly in homage to Ernie Chan). Chan became the Claw after buying an ancient suit of armour and sword. The Claw of Pytharia, which had been dormant in one of the gauntlets, cut off his hand with the sword and grafted itself in place. The demonic spirit of the claw increased his fighting skills, but made it difficult for him to control his anger. John Chan was a member of Primal Force throughout that series' 15 issue run. The Leymen are a DC Comics superhero team. ...
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Swamp Thing -
Main article: Swamp Thing Alternate versions of Claw have had cameo appearances in titles such as Sandman #52 (1993), Swamp Thing #163 (1996) and Starman (vol.2) #55 (1999). For other uses, see Swamp Thing (disambiguation). ...
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Red Sonja - See also: Red Sonja
In 2006, with the popularity of sword and sorcery comics once again resurgent due to revivals of Conan by Dark Horse Comics and of Red Sonja by Dynamite Entertainment, DC began to publish new Claw material through their Wildstorm imprint. The character first returned in Red Sonja /Claw The Unconquered: Devil's Hands (March, 2006) a crossover limited series featuring Red Sonja which is co-published by Dynamite Entertainment and written by John Layman and pencilled by Andy Smith. A new Wildstorm Claw the Unconquered regular monthly title by writer Chuck Dixon and penciller Andy Smith is scheduled to debut in June 2006. As of December 2006, the Claw monthly series has apparently run its course, ending with this version of Claw enslaved by demons from hell or a parallel universe, and the whole world doomed to demonic possession. The series gives Claw's full name as "Valcan Scaramax". It seems clear that Claw somehow either wandered back to his own world of Pytharia, or into some other world entirely, as nothing in the Claw series from Dynamite bore any connection to Howard's Hyborean realms. Red Sonja, a warrior woman out of majestic Hyrkania, is a low fantasy sword and sorcery heroine created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith. ...
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WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm or Wildstorm, is a publishing imprint and studio of American comic book publisher DC Comics. ...
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It is unclear if the new Wildstorm Claw stories feature the original 1970s version of the character or whether they adhere to a new continuity. Red Sonja's current iteration is supposed to be consistent with her 1970s Marvel Comics continuity, and the direct connection between Claw's revival and the crossover with Sonja seems to indicate that these new stories occur on Hyborian Age Earth (where Sonja's stories are clearly intended to occur). Strictly speaking, the crossover also means that this version of Claw co-exists with Conan (and indeed the Marvel Universe, as Sonja's original appearances did), though this it is extremely unlikely that those connections were ever intended or will ever be acknowledged.[1] This article is about the comic book company. ...
An illustration of The Hyborian Age primarily based upon a map hand-drawn by Robert E. Howard in March 1932. ...
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