El Diablo

El Diablo

El Diablo

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El Diablo may refer to:

Spanish for the Devil

El Diablo (album), an album by Italian rock band Litfiba

El Diablo (comics), several fictional characters from DC Comics

El Diablo (Freedom Force), a fictional Superhero in the video game Freedom Force

Didi Senft (born 1952), cyclist and inventor

El Diablo (golf course), a golf course in Citrus County Florida.

El Diablo (1990 film),

El Diablo, Mascot for Mission Viejo High School

"El Diablo" (The Killing), an episode of the U.S. television series, The Killing

El Diablo (comics)

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El Diablo

Eldiablo.jpg

Rafael Sandoval from the cover of El Diablo v.2 #16,

art by Mike Parobeck.

Publication information

Publisher DC Comics

First appearance (Lane)

All-Star Western #2

(October 1970)

(Sandoval)

El Diablo vol. 2 #1

(August 1989)

(Santana)

El Diablo vol. 3 #1

(September 2008)

Created by (Lane)

Robert Kanigher (writer)

Gray Morrow (artist)

(Sandoval)

Gerard Jones (writer)

Mike Parobeck (artist)

(Santana)

Jai Nitz (writer)

Phil Hester (artist)

Ande Parks (artist)

In-story information

Alter ego - Lazarus Lane

- Rafael Sandoval

- Chato Santana

Team affiliations (Lane)

Rough Bunch

(Sandoval)

Justice League

Abilities (Sandoval)

Olympic level boxer and athlete.

El Diablo is a name shared by several fictional characters published by DC Comics. Lazarus Lane the first El Diablo debuted in All-Star Western #2 (October 1970), and was created by Robert Kanigher and Gray Morrow.[1]

Contents [hide]

1 Publication history

2 Lazarus Lane

2.1 2011 Relaunch

3 Rafael Sandoval

4 Chato Santana

5 In other media

6 References

7 External links

Publication history[edit]

The first El Diablo, Lazarus Lane, was created by Robert Kanigher and Gray Morrow and debuted in All-Star Western #2 (October 1970). Lane starred in a four issue mini-series series published by DC Comics through their Vertigo imprint as a mature readers title; El Diablo vol. 1 #1, (March 2001) was written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Danijel Zezelj.

Rafael Sandoval first appeared in El Diablo vol. 2 #1 (August 1989) and was created by Gerard Jones and Mike Parobeck.

Chato Santana first appeared in El Diablo vol. 3 #1 (September 2008) and was created by Jai Nitz, Phil Hester and Ande Parks.

Lazarus Lane[edit]

Lazarus Lane is the original El Diablo, operating in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West. Lane was originally a bank teller who is nearly killed by a gang of thieves and put in a coma after being struck by lightning. After being revived by a Native American shaman named "Wise Owl", Lane becomes a vigilante and called himself El Diablo.[1] The name El Diablo means "the devil" in Spanish.

According to Jonah Hex vol. 2 #11 (November 2006) and Jonah Hex vol. 2 #24 (December 2007), Lazarus Lane is cursed to be the host of a minor demon which acts as a Spirit of Vengeance. Lane's body slumbers in a coma while "El Diablo" roams the Earth. His fate is similar to that of the current Crimson Avenger. In Swamp Thing vol. 2 #85 (April 1989), Wise Owl is shown in a more villainous light, with Lane/El Diablo his unwilling servant. In that story, set in 1872, a number of DC's western heroes (including the aforementioned Hex, Bat Lash, Johnny Thunder, and Madame .44) were employed by Otto Von Hammer and Jason Blood to defeat Wise Owl and recover from him an object of great power, which turned out to be a crystal containing the spirit of Swamp Thing, who had become lost in time. When the group killed Wise Owl, Lane's comatose body woke up,

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