21 Facts About Brother Voodoo

1.

Brother Voodoo is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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2.

Brother Voodoo has gone to guest-star very sporadically in other Marvel series, into the 21st century.

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3.

Brother Voodoo's run in Strange Tales was written by co-creator Len Wein and drawn by Gene Colan.

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4.

Brother Voodoo's name was changed to "Doctor Voodoo" when he replaced Doctor Strange as Sorcerer Supreme during the Dark Reign storyline.

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5.

Brother Voodoo becomes Haiti's houngan supreme and champion, and establishes a sprawling mansion as a base of operations.

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6.

Brother Voodoo eventually succumbs to the lure of power that Damballah's wangal represented.

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7.

Brother Voodoo is offered a full-time role in Steve Rogers's Uncanny Avengers.

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8.

Brother Voodoo helps Dr Strange defeat the Empirikull, a science cult focused on destroying magic in every dimension.

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9.

Black Panther instructs Brother Voodoo to take Ka-Zar, Zabu, Black Knight, and Scarlet Witch with him to investigate strange occurrences in the Savage Land.

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10.

When Ka-Zar had been stabbed by a Cotati using Black Knight's Ebony Blade, Brother Voodoo exited Man-Thing's mind and worked with Scarlet Witch to extract Ka-Zar's soul from the Ebony Blade as Shanna the She-Devil uses the same waters that resurrected her on Ka-Zar.

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11.

Brother Voodoo possesses numerous mystical and quasi-physical powers derived from the Loa, the spirit-gods of voodoo.

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12.

Brother Voodoo has the ability to command certain living things by a mystic sort of hypnotism, most effective over animals and plants.

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13.

Brother Voodoo can send the spirit to possess another person's body and then has total control over their actions.

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14.

Brother Voodoo has more mundane escapist talents, once entering Strange's building, not through magic, but through the chimney.

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15.

Brother Voodoo has extensive knowledge of voudoun thanks to training by Papa Jambo, as well as conventional medicine and psychology with a Ph.

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16.

Brother Voodoo wears a mystic medallion that serves as a focus of his powers and as a focus for his contact with his personal loas.

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17.

An alternate version of Brother Voodoo appears as the leader of the Avengers of the Undead, the team of Avengers from Earth-666.

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18.

Brother Voodoo first appears when the mainstream version of Captain Britain entrusts the team with the Orb of Necromancy, a powerful artifact that he wishes to keep hidden.

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19.

Brother Voodoo generally showed him as a lame character trying to get his own series.

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20.

When Brother Voodoo finally got his own solo story in Marvel Super-Heroes vol.

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21.

Four-issue, weekly miniseries Supernaturals, written by Brian Pulido, featured an alternate-universe Brother Voodoo leading a team composed of Ghost Rider, Werewolf by Night, the Gargoyle, the Black Cat and Satana, to fight a mystically powered version of the villain Jack O'Lantern in a world where only magical heroes and villains existed.

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