Happy Terrill
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- In April 1940, Happy Terrill, a reporter for The Morning Telegraph, was aboard Professor Styne's experimental strato-balloon, when the craft was caught in a cosmic storm. In order to protect the rest of the crew, Happy crawled outside to close the outer air cock. Exposure to the cosmic storm transformed him into a being capable of utilizing light. He used his new power to become the crimefighter named The Ray.
Happy later had a son Joshua Terrill (Spitfire) with his first wife Gayle, and another son Raymond Terrill (the second Ray) with his second wife Nadine.
More recently, The Ray sought help from Neon the Unknown (Tom Corbet) to save his son Raymond. When Neon refused, The Ray drank from the waters of his magical oasis, gaining new powers and becoming the new Neon. - Notes:
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Happy Terrill (The Ray) first appeared in Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #14 (September 1940).
The Ray first appeared in a DC comic in a reprint in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #252 (June 1972), then appeared in a new story in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #107 (September-October 1973).
Happy Terrill became Neon in Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters (DC, 2007 series) #6 (April 2008).
Happy's real name was given as "Lanfor Terril" on a wanted poster in Freedom Fighters (DC, 1976 series) #3 (July-August 1976), and as "Langford Terrill" in the Ray story in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1978 series) #1 (Summer 1978).
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_(DC_Comics)#Langford_%22Happy%22_Terrill Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_the_Unknown#The_new_Neon - Keywords
- DC; Quality
Disambiguation: The Ray / Neon
First published in: 1940
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