Who Is Jack Ketch? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Jack Ketch is a Eclipse comic book character, with over 2 comic issue appearances. Jack Ketch is a superhero based on the executioner employed by King Charles II who appeared in the pages of the Miracleman comic.

Who is Jack Ketch?

Creation The character called Jack Ketch appeared in the comic Miracleman which was produced by Eclipse Comics. He was created by Alan Moore and illustrated by Alan Davis. History In the time shortly after his battle with Miracleman the defeated Big Ben is shocked with what he see's in the Zarathustra bunker. Dismissing the truth and going further into his psychosis and rejects reality.In Big Ben’s version of events Jack Ketch and Owlwoman are colleagues from the Bulldog Brigade who arrive. Big Ben believes that Jack Ketch had told him how the red rogue had used a "brain beam" to make him to doubt his own identity. Big Ben allows Jack Ketch to place an ultra-vest which Owlwoman brings along from her mountain fortress which would drain off the harmful mind-clouding radiation. This is not the case however as in reality. Jack Ketch and Owlwoman are actually doctors serving the British state and its secret superhuman testing and its classified infrastructure.They are not the teammates and fellow heroes that Big Ben imagines are using a ultra-vest to disperse the mind controlling agent in his system.

Key facts

Jack Ketch is of human origin and first appeared in "Out of the Dark". The character is published by Eclipse. With 2 recorded issue appearances, Jack Ketch ranks among the most featured characters in comics.