John Daltry | |
Aliases: | Sheriff Daltry |
Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
Notability: | Supporting character |
Type: | Law enforcement |
Occupation: | Sheriff |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Human |
Location: | Citrusville, Florida |
Associations: | Cypress County Sheriff's Department |
Relatives: | Nancy Daltry |
Status: | Alive |
First: | Man-Thing, Vol. 2 #4 |
John Daltry is a fictional law-enforcement officer and a supporting character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is associated with the Man-Thing line of titles and first appeared in Man-Thing, Volume 2 #4 in May, 1980 in a story called Death-Knell.
Biography[]
John Daltry was the sheriff of Cypress County, Florida. Part of his jurisdiction included the Citrusville swamps, home of the Man-Thing. During his tenure as sheriff he has had many run-ins with the Man-Thing and gained a rudimentary understanding of the creature's attraction to emotions.
Daltry came into contact with various criminal and mystical forces thanks to the Man-Thing. His first such brush with the mystic was when Doctor Strange came to Cypress County seeking clues in the disappearances of various people in the area. Strange later erased this encounter from Daltry's mind. [1]
Next, he came to the rescue of Barbie Bannister, whose family had been murdered by boat thieves, and spent the night fleeing in terror from them as well as the Man-Thing. When their leader, Ian McGuire, was beat senseless by Barbie, the two formed a relationship and she moved in with him.
Shortly after, Daltry was the subject of the destructive fraternity pranks of an exclusive Georgia College fraternity, led by rich boy J. Elliot Osbourne. Osbourne and his frat-mates trashed the Cypress County Sheriff's Office. Later the kids got the drop on John, cuffed him, and forced him to watch as they attempted to destroy the Man-Thing; an attempt which lead to the death of Osbourne.
Daltry and Barbie next come to the aid of a commercial airliner which crashed in the swamps after it was apparently attacked by a giant pirate ship in the sky. This was caused by Captain Fate and his crew aboard the Serpent Crown. Daltry was possessed by the sword wielded by Fate, and became a pawn of Thog when Fate was finally killed by the Man-Thing.
Daltry was then sent to do Thog's bidding, including killing Doctor Strange and other mystics. However Barbie, with the help of John Kowalski, the Kale family, and writer Chris Claremont (who was briefly granted the Man-Things powers) freed Daltry from Thog's control. [2]
Later, when Captain Fate allied with Dracula and his vampire army, Daltry was still being used as Fate's host. As the vampires launched their assault on England, the members of MI13 made an assault on the New Serpent's Crown, freeing enslaved member Spitfire from Dracula's control and separating Fate from the Magus Sword, bringing Daltry back to England with them.
Notes & Trivia[]
- John Daltry had a wife named Nancy, who passed away after 15 years of marriage.
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References[]
Includes characters featured in the Man-Thing line of comic book titles published by Marvel Comics. |