Judex

Judex
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Real Name	Jacques de Tremeuse
First Appearance	Judex (Film, 1916)
Original Publisher	Gaumont Studios
Created by	Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède.

Origin[]

After his father was killed, Judex set out on a crusade against crime, assisted by his mother, his younger brother, circus folk and redeemed criminals. He was skilled in fighting, was a master of disguise and had some hypntoic abilities. He is tall, with black hair and he wears all black with a cloak and slouch hat. He flew a plane and had a secret lair beneathe a castle where he kept his prisoners and interrogated them via "television." He sought revenge against Favraux, a corrupt banker, who killed his father, but he spared his life for the sake of Favraux's innocent daughter Jacqueline Aubry whom he had fallen in love with.

Public Domain Appearances[]

Public Domain Film Appearances[]

Judex (1916)
La nouvelle mission de Judex (1918)

Public Domain Literary Appearances[]

Judex (1916) (novelization)
La nouvelle mission de Judex (1918) (novelization)

Notes[]

The word Judex means "judge" in Latin.
The first episode of the first film serial was titled L'Ombre mystérieuse (The Mysterious Shadow).
Judex inspired Ravengar, a character from the Franco-American serial The Shielding Shadow, produced by Pathé and released in the same year. According to some historians, The Shadow merges elements from both, combining Judex's dark vigilante archetype with Ravengar's invisibility power, interestingly, in the 1940s, The Shadow comic strips were published as Judex in France.
In Marvel Comics, Judex appears in Defenders vol. 4 (2012) by Matt Fraction and Jamie McKelvie and is referred to as "Judex, the Shadow", Fraction had previously created a version of John Aman, the Amazing Man in the Iron Fist stories (he being one of the hero's inspirations), who is known as the Prince of Orphans.