The Death-Stalker is either of two characters in Marvel Comics.
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Publication history [link]
The first Death-Stalker was Philip Wallace Sterling. An enemy of Daredevil, he first appeared as the Exterminator in Daredevil Vol. 1, #39 (April 1968).
Fictional character biography [link]
Philip Stirling [link]
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | (as The Exterminator) Daredevil Vol. 1, #39 (April 1968) (as Death-Stalker) Daredevil Vol. 1, #113 (September 1974) |
| Created by | (The Exterminator) Stan Lee, Gene Colan; (Death-Stalker), Steve Gerber, Bob Brown |
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| Alter ego | Philip Wallace Sterling |
| Team affiliations | Ani-Men Unholy Three |
| Notable aliases | Exterminator, Death's-Head |
| Abilities | Interdimensional travel Death grip gloves grant ability to kill a person upon contact |
Philip Wallace Sterling was born in Riverdale, Bronx, New York. He was a wealthy man prior to embarking on a career as a professional criminal. When he first appeared as the Exterminator, he recruited the Unholy Three. He constructed a "time displacer ray" ("t-ray") which could teleport its target into another dimension (possibly the Limbo from which Immortus hails). The Exterminator led the Unholy Three in a series of criminal activities and battled Daredevil. When Daredevil defeated the Exterminator and his agents, he also destroyed the t-ray, accidentally bombarding the Exterminator with its strange energy, and seemingly killing him.[1]
Sterling actually found himself trapped between two dimensions, able to return to Earth at will but only for a few hours at a time; furthermore, the mutation caused his skin to become chalk-white. He stole a pair of gloves from AIM that gave him a "death-grip," and began calling himself "The Death-Stalker."[2] He tried several times to kill Daredevil and build a new t-ray machine, but was each time beaten by Daredevil.
He was allied with Gladiator against Daredevil. The Death-Stalker traveled to the Florida Everglades in search of papers relating to Ted Sallis's experiments, and encountered the Man-Thing.[3] He stole a set of ancient Lemurian crystal lenses from the Museum of Modern Art, and fought Daredevil.[4] He masqueraded as Death's-Head (Karen Page's father), and fought Daredevil and the Ghost Rider.[5] Death-Stalker next assembled a large gathering of criminals to take part in an undisclosed plan, and faced off against Daredevil yet again.[6] He stole a scientific apparatus from Stark International.[7]
Finally, the Death-Stalker plotted his ultimate destruction of Daredevil. He attempted to kill Daredevil while the crime-fighter was hospitalized, and he also fought the Avengers. He created a new Unholy Three as a new group of Ani-Men and had them kidnap Matt Murdock, whose secret identity as Daredevil he had learned by observation from between dimensions. Daredevil was taken to St. Stephens Cemetery, and there, the Death-Stalker killed the Ani-Men and attacked Daredevil. As the battle went on and Daredevil kept getting the best of him, the Death-Stalker leaped at Daredevil in irrational rage. He had to materialize from his other dimension in full to use his cybernetic death-grip on Daredevil, but in his fury, he materialized too soon in the course of that leap and solidified while he was passing in part through a gravestone; the trauma killed him instantly.[8]
Death-Stalker II [link]
A new Death-Stalker appeared in the first issue of "Villains for Hire" (the villain counterpart of Heroes for Hire). Not much is known about this Death-Stalker except that this Death-Stalker is a female. She is among the villains hired by Purple Man to help him start his new criminal empire. Death-Stalker II was almost shot in the head by Crossbones and shrugs to him by stating "you can't kill what is already dead." Death-Stalker II later survives the explosion of the boat she was on.[9]
Powers and abilities [link]
Accidental exposure to "T-radiation" altered Sterling's physiology, making it so that he normally existed in a dimension congruent to Earth. While in this realm, he could watch and listen to events on Earth without being observed from Earth by any means. By willing himself to do so, he could shift into the Earth dimension to varying degrees. He could become visible, but intangible, or visible and tangible as he desired. He could shift from one state to the other instantaneously. Also, while completely in his interdimensional state, he could cover distances more rapidly, enabling him to disappear from one Earth location and reappear at another far sooner than if he had traversed that same distance on Earth. The Death-Stalker could not continuously manifest in the dimension of Earth for more than several hours at a time. His "cybernetic death-grip" device, stolen from AIM, was worn in his gloves, which emitted a dose of microwave radiation when activated by mental command, killing any living creature in contact with it. The Death-Stalker had to materialize in full on Earth for the device to be effective. This energy has been described as microwaves, but seems to have properties of both lightning and truly intense cold. Philip Wallace Sterling was a brilliant criminal mastermind, in addition to being an accomplished inventor and scientist with extensive knowledge of advance scientific apparatus.
The second Death-Stalker can teleport and has a microwave "death grip."
References [link]
External links [link]
- Death-Stalker at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
- Marvel Database entry
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Exterminator!
Exterminator! is a short story collection written by William S. Burroughs and first published in 1973. Early editions label the book a novel.
It is not to be confused with The Exterminator, another collection of stories Burroughs published in 1960 in collaboration with Brion Gysin.
The collection contains a number of Burroughs' most popular short pieces, such as "Twilight's Last Gleamings", "The Discipline of DE", "Wind Die, You Die, We Die", "Ali's Smile", and "The Coming of the Purple Better One". Some of the stories, such as "Ali's Smile", had previously been published in other books and magazines such as Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Evergreen Review, and Esquire Magazine.
The title story is about an insect exterminator, a job Burroughs himself once held. Certain aspects of this story were used in the film version of Naked Lunch, with the main character William Lee (a portrayal of Burroughs) holding the same job at the film's beginning.
In the 1980s, actor Ed Asner recorded a spoken word adaptation of "Wind Die. You Die. We Die", while Burroughs and Kurt Cobain recorded a musical version of one of the stories as The "Priest" They Called Him.
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Exterminator (horse)
Exterminator (May 30, 1915 – September 26, 1945) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby, and in 1922 won Horse of the Year honors.
Background
The lanky chestnut colt was bred by F. D. "Dixie" Knight (Mrs. M.J. Mizner, Knight's mother, was said to be the actual breeder) and foaled at Almahurst Farm near Lexington, Kentucky. Exterminator was sired by McGee, who also produced Donerail, the winner of the 1913 Kentucky Derby. At the Saratoga Paddock sale of 1916, he was bought as a yearling for $1,500 by J. Cal Milam who trained his own horses. The big colt grew fast, reaching 16.3 hands (67 inches, 170 cm) at two but he was awkward and coarse looking. For this reason, Milam had him gelded.
Racing career
1917: two-year-old season
On June 30, 1917 at Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky, Exterminator made his debut in a six-furlong maiden race that he won by three lengths. Sent to race in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, he suffered a muscle sprain and Milam gave him time off to grow into his size, which by now was 17 hands. Still, he had earned $1,500 and a potential nomination to the Kentucky Derby.
