Josiah Power
Josiah Power is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Josiah Power
Working his way through a short depression and other problems, Josiah eventually found a way to combine his old skills and newfound abilities. He decided to found a business of superheroes for hire, structured like a law firm, with partners and associates.
He called his new team the Power Company. During his tenure in the team, he was put into a coma from a gunshot wound and Firestorm became an associate. He has since recovered and has continued active duty. He rarely participates in the company's missions. He has made exceptions but only when the situation was dire. Josiah lives with his life partner Rupert.
Josiah and the rest of the Power Company are injured during a battle with Doctor Impossible and a group of villains using technology from New Genesis. Josiah was found near death, but was saved by a timely intervention from Mon-El. During a later discussion, Hal Jordan worriedly remarks that if the villains were able to defeat someone as powerful as Josiah, then the members of the Justice League are going to have a big problem on their hands. (Justice League of America v2 #42)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
When he activates his powers Josiah transforms into a monstrous, grey, stone-like seven-foot giant, and an energy corona begins to spark about his body. He gains great strength, invulnerability and possibly other energy-based powers.
Notes
- Josiah Power was created by Kurt Busiek and Tom Grummett where he made his first appearance in JLA v1 #61 (February, 2002).
- During the promotion of Power Company, Busiek gave an overview of Josiah in an interview, "Josiah Power is the founding partner — he was a successful African American attorney who gained super-powers during an alien invasion of the Earth, and gained them very publicly, in a way that ruined his law career. But he's not ready to retire from an active professional life, so he winds up starting the Power Company as a way to use the business skills he learned over years of running a law firm, in a new context — the super-powered world he's now a part of."
Appearances
- JLA v1: (2002)
- Power Company v1:
- The Power Company: Josiah Power v1: (2002)
- Teen Titans:
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