Who Is Weasel? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Weasel is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of John Monroe, with over 35 comic issue appearances. The Weasel has no super powers but is highly agile and is a ferocious hand to hand combatant.

Who is Weasel?

John Monroe was a lonely student at Stanford University in the late 1960's. His contemporaries rarely, if ever, noticed him and if they did, they would refer to him in derogotary terms, using words like "Weasel" to describe him. Embittered by this experience, Monroe became a murderer decades later. By this time, he was a teacher at Vandemeer University in Pittsburgh, where a number of his fellow students from Stanford held prominent positions; Arnold Lintel, head of the Vandemeer's engineering dept; Linda Walters, an instructor in music; and physics professor Peter Banks were among those who had taunted Monroe years earlier. To rationalise killing these three, Monroe convinced himself that they represented threats to his getting tenure at Vandemeer. Monroe devised the costumed identity of the Weasel and brutally murdered Lintel, Walters and Banks, as well as night watchman Chuck Gherkin. Soon afterwards, Dr. Martin Stein, the physicist who is part of the composite being known as Firestorm , arrived at Vandemeer to fill a position of physics professor.

Key facts

Weasel is of human origin and first appeared in "Winter Frost". The character is published by DC Comics. With 35 recorded issue appearances, Weasel ranks among the most featured characters in comics.