Who Is Barbatos? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Barbatos is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Bahrbaetous, with over 25 comic issue appearances. Quite the powerful and manipulative demon, who controls the greatest magician of all time with ease.

Who is Barbatos?

Creation Barbatos was created by writer John Ney Rieber and artist Peter Snejbjerg in The Books of Magic issue 5 in 1994. Major Story Arcs Barbatos is a demon who loves the degraded nature of Earth’s pop culture, especially its snack food. He loves to indulge in it himself, and believes he can use it to debase humanity. He is wacky with a cruel sense of humor. He is selfish and cowardly. Barbatos's history unrolls mostly through the main Books of Magic title but also some of its ancillary material. As a regular time-traveler, his life was presented out of chronological order when published; this account tries to make clear both the actual chronology of his life as well as some sense of when and where things were published. The Books of Magic: In-Universe Mid-1990s/Issues 65-75 According to In-universe chronology, Barbatos (he actually goes by Barhbaetous at this time) is seen for the first time in the outskirts of the lands of the dead, where he and his assistant, Hauptman , have found the maggot-souls that have come out of Brother Hugh .

Key facts

Barbatos is of god/eternal origin and first appeared in "The Hidden School". The character is published by DC Comics. With 25 recorded issue appearances, Barbatos ranks among the most featured characters in comics.