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Detective Comics #592 Page 15 FIRST APPEARANCE OF VILLAIN CORNELIUS STIRK

Artist: NORM BREYFOGLE (All)

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Detective Comics #592 Page 15 FIRST APPEARANCE OF VILLAIN CORNELIUS STIRK Comic Art

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Title:	Detective Comics #592 Page 15 FIRST APPEARANCE OF VILLAIN CORNELIUS STIRK
Artist:	NORM BREYFOGLE (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,675
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	8/16/2019
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15" x 10.25" image area. Ink over graphite on DC Bristol board. Detective Comics #592 Page 15 Original Art (DC 1988). Featuring the debut appearance of villain Cornelius Stirk. Norm Breyfogle.

A punk-rock Abraham Lincoln is revealed to be none other than psionic serial killer Cornelius Stirk on this surreal page from the character's debut issue, "The Fear". An Abe Lincoln look-alike approaches a homeless man and lures him into a trap to kidnap him and drag him to a derelict building, where he straps him to a wall before he starts a slow torture to terrorize the man. It is then that the madman reveals his true, hideous looking face, causing the homeless man to faint. The madman then proceeds to "absorb" his victim's fear from his body, by sucking the fluids coming out of every pore.

HISTORY

Cornelius Stirk is a mentally diseased criminal from Gotham City. Stirk was confined to Arkham Asylum at the young age of 16 after he tried to murder a classmate. For sixteen years, Stirk was locked in Arkham, where he was diagnosed with a severe hypothalamic disorder, which is a result of a deficiency of certain neurotransmitters in his brain. However, the doctors at Arkham couldn't explain how Stirk gained the Psi-Powers that allow him to alter his appearance in other people's minds.

During his time as an Arkham inmate, Stirk remained under constant medication until he learned how to control his psi-powers and used the to manipulate the doctors, convincing them that he was completely sane. Stirk was eventually released. After only a week of freedom, he started killing people, terrorizing them and removing their hearts from their bodies. Stirk's madness caused him to believe that all he needed to survive was to ingest other people's organs and the fluids they produce under the effects of fear.

When Stirk claimed his third victim, he was finally confronted by Batman. Although Stirk managed to get the upper hand in their first confrontation, he was ultimately defeated and returned to Arkham Asylum, where the doctors learned about Stirk's powers and resumed medicating him for the foreseeable future.

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Gal Schwartz
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1 - Posted on 8/16/2019

Powerful page, congrats !!

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