Major Disaster

Major Disaster (Paul Booker) is a former DC Comics supervillain and reluctant amoral superhero.^[1]

Major Disaster
Major Disaster as depicted in JLA #80 (June 2003). Art by Duncan Rouleau (penciller), Aaron Sowd (inker), and David Baron (colorist).
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Green Lantern #43 (March 1966)
Created by	Gardner Fox Gil Kane
In-story information
Alter ego	Paul Booker
Species	Metahuman
Team affiliations	Army of Crime Justice League Antarctica Injustice League Suicide Squad SKULL Justice League Elite Justice League
Notable aliases	Bennett Brodsky
Abilities	Probability manipulation Force field generation Chaos sensing Chaos manipulation Disaster inducement

Publication history

Major Disaster first appeared in Green Lantern (volume 2) #43, and was created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane.^[2]

Fictional character biography

Paul Booker is a low-level crook who accidentally discovers the secret identities of Green Lantern and the Flash after finding Thomas Kalmaku's casebook.^[3] He then becomes a criminal using devices that can create natural disasters and protect him from them. Despite having his memories erased, Major Disaster continues to battle Green Lantern and allies with Epoch.^[4]

Major Disaster's debut. Art by Murphy Anderson.

Major Disaster later learns that he has gained his devices' power innately, but is slowly dying due to their effects. He joins the Injustice League, eventually reforms, and becomes a founding member of Justice League Antarctica.

After returning to crime, Major Disaster makes a deal with Neron to gain enhanced powers in exchange for his soul. Furthermore, he joins the Suicide Squad and a substitute Justice League consisting of Nightwing, Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkgirl, Firestorm, Jason Blood, and Faith while the main group are believed dead.^[5]

In Infinite Crisis, Major Disaster is killed by Superboy-Prime.^[6] He is later resurrected as a Black Lantern in Blackest Night and attempts to seek revenge before Prime kills him using a black ring.^[7]

In The New 52, Major Disaster is resurrected and returns to being a villain.^[8] Furthermore, his daughter Penny, a wielder of the H-Dial who is also known as Minor Disaster, is introduced.^[9]

Powers and abilities

Major Disaster possesses the ability to manipulate probability and cause natural disasters. He initially derives his powers from special devices before gaining them innately.

In other media

• Major Disaster makes non-speaking cameo appearances in Justice League Unlimited as a member of Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society before being killed by Darkseid.
• Major Disaster appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by James Arnold Taylor.^[10]
• Major Disaster appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.^[11]