Who Is The Monocle? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

The Monocle is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Jonathan Cheval, with over 67 comic issue appearances. Monocle is an enemy of Hawkman. He has devised many different types of lenses with abilities such as focusing various forms of heat, radiation, light, cosmic rays, and x-rays.

Who is The Monocle?

Origin Jonathan Cheval is an honest businessman in the field of optics; however, due to the scheming of a criminal, he loses his business. Determined to get revenge on the people that cheated him, Cheval invents a number of monocles that can emit beams of energy. He is eventually captured by the Golden Age Hawkman . Story Arc Decades later, after being released from prison, he is invited by the Ultra-Humanite to join his Secret Society of Super Villains ,\ which battles Hawkman along with the rest of the JSA and the JLA . He and his colleagues are defeated and banished into an interdimensional limbo. They are stranded there until the Ultra-Humanite from 1942 contacts his future counterpart, enlisting the aid of all the criminals then present in limbo. Monocle briefly resides once more in 1942 until he and his allies are once again defeated, this time at the hands of the All-Star Squadron . Monocle joins up with a new version of the Secret Society, but judging from the story's end, this entire adventure is a tall tale told between two other supervillains; the second Sonar and the Flash villain Rainbow Raider .

Key facts

The Monocle is of human origin. The character is published by DC Comics. With 67 recorded issue appearances, The Monocle ranks among the most featured characters in comics.