APPARITION

Real Name: Unrevealed (see comments)

Identity/Class: Extradimensional/alternate reality (Earth-712/"Earth-S") ghost

Occupation: Supernatural entity

Group Membership: Unrevealed (see comments)

Affiliations: Unrevealed

Enemies: Unrevealed

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Reality-712

First Appearance: Design sketches; (mentioned in actual comic) Squadron Supreme: New World Order I#1 (September 1998)

Powers/Abilities: Unrevealed

Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed; possibly none
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed

History:
(Design sketches) - Apparition was an entity that resided in Reality-712.

(Squadron Supreme: New World Order I#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Apparition was a spectral entity which had once been a living human; now a supernatural entity formed from that human's soul, it protected Reality-712, and was known to the heroes of the Squadron Supreme. Following the zero hour of a crisis that swept the universe, sundering both time and space across multiple realities and revising the past, present and future, the Apparition's soul was finally laid to rest. Its passing was later recounted by Mysterium to the Squadron after they returned from an sojourn to Earth-616.

Comments: Created by John Byrne and presumably Mark Gruenwald; first actually mentioned in a Marvel story by Len Kaminski.

   Prior to Mark Gruenwald launching his Squadron Supreme miniseries he apparently tasked John Byrne with working on design sketches for many of the characters intended to appear within. Byrne produced a number of "handbook-style" images, some of which have subsequently made their way online in recent years. Interestingly, alongside the characters who actually appeared in the Squadron Supreme series, there were two characters who didn't - Nighthawk's teen sidekick, Blackbird, and the Apparition; the sketches also confirmed that Remnant was originally named Wild Card.

   Given both his name and that he was stated to have been a human soul not at rest, Apparition would seem likely to be an analogue of DC's Spectre. As such, he might have been a member of the Golden Agency, Earth-712's analogue of the Justice Society of America, which Spectre once belonged to.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Apparition has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Squadron Supreme character design sketches (main image)

Appearances:
Squadron Supreme: New World Order I#1 (September 1998) - Len Kaminski (writer), Anthony Williams (pencils), Andy Lanning (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor).

First Posted: 02/13/2024
Last updated: 02/13/2024

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