Who Is Anton Arcane? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Anton Arcane is a DC Comics comic book character, with over 164 comic issue appearances. Arcane uses no weaponry - except his loyal Un-men. His powers are all sorcerous in nature - including raising the dead to some semblance of life. Some claim he is the living embodiment of pure evil.

Who is Anton Arcane?

Origin Anton Arcane was a brilliant but deranged scientist who dedicated his life to discovering the secret of immortality. Born in the 19th century, he was a horrible child, who used his age and size to intimidate and physically bully his younger siblings. Anton would attend Hamburg School of Medicine where his obsession with immortality would lead him to unsavory and unethical behavior and attitudes. After several physical altercations with fellow students and attempting to bring back the dead to life he would be expelled. Anton would get an opportunity to refine his methods as a World War 1 medic, having access to many dead bodies on which he would use for his bizarre dark experiments and tests. Anton would eventually also come to know and befriend Adolf Hitler. By the time Arcane achieved his goal of immortality, his body was too old and feeble, and no longer a suitable vessel to carry him through eternity, so Arcane began conducting experiments to make a new body, but the results, dubbed the Un-Men , were grotesque, deformed failures. Creation Anton Arcane is a DC comics character who was developed by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson and first appeared in Swamp Thin.

Key facts

Anton Arcane is of god/eternal origin and first appeared in "Dark Genesis!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 164 recorded issue appearances, Anton Arcane ranks among the most featured characters in comics.