Norman McCay
Norman McCay is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Norman McCay was a male human who came to be a practicing minister for all of his adult life. Norman and his late wife came to Metropolis in their later years to let Norman take up a part time pastoral position as well as allowing the couple to enjoy semi-retirement. McCay was friend and pastor to the former Sandman, Wesley Dodds, until he died. Dodds proclaimed an apocalyptic prophecy concerning future events involving the world's super-heroes. McCay was saddened by this, thinking that his friend was losing his mind. After Wesley passes away, Norman finds that he has inherited Dodds' visions. He mistakenly drives his congregation away by breaking into prophetic ramblings. After this, he is contacted by the Spectre who needs to bind himself to a human to effectively judge the responsible parties in the coming events.
With the Spectre as his guide, Norman becomes a spirit and observes the events that unfold after the Kansas disaster. He watches the reemergence of Superman, and the reformation of the Justice League. Norman also observes the manipulations of Lex Luthor and his agents. While watching these events, he provides an insightful commentary on what he is seeing. While invisible to most, he becomes visible to the Justice League on one occasion when the Flash grabs him from the dimension through which he travels. He attempts to tell Superman that the apocalypse will result from their actions. Superman, however, is but confused by his appearance and refutes his warning.
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Notes
- Norman McCay was created by Alex Ross and Mark Waid where he made his first appearance in Kingdom Come v1 #1 (May, 1996).
Alternate Versions
- In Justice Society of America Kingdom Come Special: Superman v1 #1 (2009), an alternate version of Norman McCay was shown to reside in the mainline New Earth reality in the Multiverse. The Superman of Earth-22 is worried that he is the cause of events that leads to the destruction of each world he inhabits. Remembering the Biblical warnings of the Earth-22 McKay just before the deadly events at the Gulag, he visits New-Earth's McKay in Chicago. This version of McKay is retired from preaching and his wife is still alive. McKay reassures Superman-22 that his presence on New-Earth may just as likely help prevent its destruction.
Appearances
- Kingdom Come v1: (1996)
- Justice Society of America Kingdom Come Special: Superman v1: (2009)
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