Who Is Lightmaster? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Lightmaster is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Edward Lansky, with over 93 comic issue appearances. Lightmaster is able to transform his body into light, and travel at light-speeds. He was also a member of the One World Church.

Who is Lightmaster?

Origin Edward Lansky is the Lightmaster!! Edward Lansky was a professor of physics at Empire State University and designed a body suit that was capable of harnessing all the properties of light. Lansky dubbed himself the Lightmaster and had plans to get rid of Chancellor Gorman and some corrupt officials for denying his department funds to operate. Lansky partnered up with the Tarantula and they kidnapped Gorman. Lanksy would double cross his partner and test his new suit by blasting Tarantula with a beam of solid light. Spider Man discovered the Lightmaster inside City Hall after he laid out the City-Controller named Goldin. Lightmaster attacked Spider Man with various light-based constructs until he knocked the wall-crawler through a window. Peter Parker decided to investigate and got some information regarding the kidnappings with the help of Joe Robertson . Parker recognized an address on Gramercy Park and realized his hunch was true.

Key facts

Lightmaster is of human origin and first appeared in "Twice Stings the Tarantula!". The character is published by Marvel. With 93 recorded issue appearances, Lightmaster ranks among the most featured characters in comics.