Starman (DC Comics Golden Age)

Starman is Ted Knight, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Justice Society of America. Created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley, he first appeared in Adventure Comics #61 (1941).

Starman wears a costume of red and green tights, with a helmet with a fin on the top. He wields a gravity rod (later cosmic rod) which allows him to fly and to manipulate energy, at times in a manner similar to Green Lantern's ring. As Ted Knight, he is an astronomer and an expert scientist, having developed the rods himself.

He was a member of the Justice Society for much of the 1940s.

As revealed in the series The Golden Age, Starman suffered a nervous breakdown in the early 1950s when he realized that his work had helped bring about the horrors of the atom bomb.

Starman had a brief affair with the superheroine Black Canary in the 1960s.

Starman married and had two children, Jack and David. Following Ted's retirement, David inherited his mantle as Starman first, but was killed early in his career. Jack (q.v.) then inherited the title and was the subject of a popular 1990s comic book series written by James Robinson.