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Scarab is a comic book written by John Smith and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, featuring a superhero called Scarab.
It ran for only eight issues between November 1993 and June 1994, although the character has reappeared in DC's Justice Society of America series.
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Concept
Scarab was originally conceived of as a revival of DC's Golden Age superhero Doctor Fate, but Smith's proposal was deemed "too extreme" for an established character John Smith Interview, Class of '79 (retrieved 2007). Scarab was consequently cut down to a limited series featuring a new character, with a retroactively-created backstory that placed Scarab within an alternate Golden Age.
Plot
Louis Sendak is a 78-year-old man, and a retired superhero. A green door in his house leads to an other-worldly labyrinth where his father would often disappear to during Louis' childhood to collect strange, alien items. One of these items was the Scarabaeus, which latched on to Louis in 1941 and transformed him, giving him an ambiguous set of mystical super-powers.
Crossover
Two Indigo Prime agents, Dazzler and Creed, appear in Scarab #7. A lot of John Smith's stories are set in the Smithiverse and are usually part of a broader plan but the appearances in Scarab was more due to the problems that Smith had encountered with the series.
Publication
- Scarab (by John Smith, with pencils by Scot Eaton and inks by Mike Barreiro, 8-issue limited series, Vertigo 1993-1994)