Who Is Scratch? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Scratch is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Zack, with over 5 comic issue appearances. A teenager with growing pains like no other discovers challenges as a young man and as a werewolf. He has to come to grips with becoming an adult and struggling to control the wolf.

Who is Scratch?

History Zack is a teenager who discovers that he is a werewolf and leaves home until he is able to control his bestial nature. He walks for days across many miles and collapses from exhaustion near a secluded cabin. He is taken in by Sage, a resident of the house, and stays for several weeks. Later, Zack discovers that Sage and the children in her custody are targets of the prejudice from the townspeople seeking to blame someone in the case of a missing girl. Later that evening, Zack becomes Scratch and encounters a monster carrying the missing girl. Scratch battles the creature but unable to rescue the girl with the sunrise. Scratch becomes Zack and the creature runs off with the girl. By sunset, Zack tracks the creature to his lair in a cave but is swarmed by a mob of deformed children.

Key facts

Scratch is of animal origin. The character is published by DC Comics. With 5 recorded issue appearances, Scratch ranks among the most featured characters in comics.