Who Is Janus Stark? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Janus Stark is a IPC Magazines Ltd. comic book character, the alter ego of Jonas Clark, with over 204 comic issue appearances. Janus Stark is a rubber limbed escapologist who operates in Victoria London. He debuted in Smash! on March 15th, 1969.

Who is Janus Stark?

Janus Stark debuted in Smash! on March 15th, 1969. Born in 1840 with bizarrely rubbery bones allowing him to contort himself in ways no normal person could, orphan Jonas Clarke escaped the brutal regime of Simon Tragg's orphanage and grew up on the streets, where he befriended the beggar Blind Largo, who taught him pickpocketing and lockpicking. As an adult Clarke reinvented himself as the escapologist and showman Janus Stark, and became something of an amateur detective. He died in 1880, at the age of 40. Unusual physiology proved to run in the family, as Janus' brother's modern day descendent John Stark possessed superhuman strength and was visited by Janus' ghost. Trivia Stark enjoyed a four year run in British titles Smash! and then Valiant , and was reprinted in France by Mon Journal in his own title, Janus Stark , whose pages also reprinted other British strips including Adam Eterno and Zarga. from 1973 to 1989. When the French title ran out of reprint material, it produced new stories of the adventurer, finally killing him off in #89 in May 1986.

Key facts

Janus Stark is of human origin. The character is published by IPC Magazines Ltd.. With 204 recorded issue appearances, Janus Stark ranks among the most featured characters in comics.