3) #53, "Solomon's Revenge", Green Arrow helps Dr. Chrissie Cavendish, a S.T.A.R. ", is found in Green Arrow (vol. His psychotic tendencies made him a natural businessman, whose legacy and wealth preceded him, but he accumulated many enemies, even those within his immediate family. By modern day, Solomon … Since Grundy's death did not involve fire at all, the process is not complete, and he becomes a sort of half-functional Plant Elemental. Originally murdered in the mysterious Slaughter Swamp, he resurrects and regenerates there every time he is killed again in his zombie form. [20], When Earth-Two's Solomon Grundy visited Earth-One, he left behind some residual cells in the sewers. He can also continue fighting for days straight, making him incredible resilient in addition to his huge strength. Solomon Grundy is a fictional supervillain in DC Comics and an antihero in the DC Animated Universe. This version of Grundy was retroactively erased from history after the revamping of Superman in Crisis on Infinite Earths. When Henry made the workers feed the body to the crocodiles, Grundy snapped, killed Henry, and everyone else in the slaughterhouse, then committed suicide while reciting the "Solomon Grundy" nursery rhyme he would often sing to his infant son. Grundy has been seemingly destroyed on several occasions, only to rise from the swamp again in a new incarnation. A combined attack brings down Grundy, and Green Lantern deposits Grundy on a distant, lifeless planet. [17] The Earth-One Solomon Grundy is born when the Parasite uses an enhanced crystal to metabolically hasten the growth of residual cells which becomes a new, much more bestial version. [26], The origins of Grundy's resurrection come from the fact that the Parliament of Trees, a high council of Plant Elementals, tried to turn him into the newest Plant Elemental. When Banner went out see who it was, the man turned out to be Solomon Grundy. As Superman and some of the Justice League fight with Batman over removing the inhabitants of Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn releases the villains to fight them, including Grundy, who attacks Damian Wayne. Dark Multiverse: Crisis on Infinite Earths. [8], A criminal scientist calling himself the Baron of York kills his brother and takes over his gang stating to them that he knows where to find the body of Solomon Grundy. [23] Grundy also appears earlier in the story while Batman pursues one of the suspects who bombed Dent's house into the sewers during Thanksgiving. The song was translated in different languages including French, German or Italian. Green Lantern leaves immediately, hoping to find Grundy before any of the JSA members are hurt going after him. Some have been truly evil; some much less so. [39] Bizarro eventually manages to defeat Grundy by flying him into the sun, which completely incinerates him, and the black ring. She convinces him to press the unconscious Mister Bones' bare hand against Skyman; since Bones's skin constantly exudes a cyanide-based compound, this quickly leads to Skyman's death. Green Lantern and Doiby use a special radio-like device Alan Scott had developed that is attuned to the mental wavelengths of Grundy himself; Green Lantern calculates the path of Grundy and announces over the radio in JSA HQ where Grundy will strike. When the Baron of York bluffs about him being worshiped and served, Solomon Grundy kills the Baron of York and takes over his gang. She forgot about Cyrus enough where he froze to death during the winter. Eventually, his cruelty caught up with him and Cyrus Gold was murdered. Solomon Grundy is one of the four possible bounties in the War-Torn Village during the Bounty: Invasion Force mission of the Age of Justiceepisode. He is offered nanotechnology stolen from GNX's Supercop program by Lex Luthor's daughter, Lucinda Luthor.[53]. Former In Green Arrow (vol. This version of Grundy returns one final time, without explanation, leading a gang in the Earth-One Gotham City. Created by Alfred Bester,[2] he first appeared in All-American Comics #61 (October 1944).[3]. In Batman '66, Solomon Grundy appears as a wealthy Olympic wrestler who Marsha, Queen of Diamonds seduced with one of her Aunt Hilda's potions. The All-Star Squadron comes to their rescue, Sir Justin faces off against Solomon Grundy and Grundy is the last villain to be transported back, he is thrust back to the moon where he remains for over two decades, as this timeline is erased once Degaton is defeated. The lyrics were first recorded in 1842 by nursery rhyme and fairy-tale collector James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. Following their brief fight with Solomon Grundy, the Parliaments ended their feud where they instructed Alan, Sam, Grundy, the Clear's avatar Azathoth, and the Red's Yolanda Montez to work together to combat the invasion from Apokolips. Grundy is once more an unintelligent monster, repeating the opening line of the nursery rhyme. He was originally depicted as a murder victim brought back to life as a corporeal revenant or zombie, though subsequent versions of the character have occasionally depicted a different origin. Each version of Grundy has been somewhat different from the last, depending on the medium used to dispatch him (and the drawing style of the current artist. [49], In the Justice Riders reality, Solomon Grundy is featured as a normal human. Solomon Grundy is best known by his eponymous appearance in the nursery rhyme - "Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday, christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, took ill on Thursday, grew worse on Friday, died on Saturday, buried on Sunday, that was the end, of Solomon Grundy." After helping Icicle free Johnny Sorrow from Prometheus' cosmic key, Grundy stays with the newly formed Injustice Society. In the process, not only was Gold permanently transformed into an undead swamp monster, but was also robbed of his memories as Cyrus Gold. Cyrus GoldAppearances • Images However, Hawkman strikes Grundy with his mace, and Doctor Mid-Nite is able to revive the Lantern. Grundy was a corrupt man named Cyrus Gold until his untimely death in Slaughter Swamp. His imprisonment at the hands of the ISA forced him to commit several murders, including that of Rex and Wendi Tyler. DC Database is a FANDOM Movies Community. He was seen as a murder victim brought back to life as a mega zombie. Jack Knight befriends Grundy, who has become innocent and childlike. Grundy bests the costumed trio, and is summoned by a mysterious voice to deliver them or "pay the penalty". No matter how much damage was done to his body, he resurrected as a complete Solomon Grundy, driven to kill. Cyrus Gold (Solomon Grundy), is a Zombie supervillain who has clashed with many heroes over the years, including Green Lantern, Superman, Batman, the Justice Society of America, and the Justice League of America. The Skulk is a hero of the Amalgam Universe. First appearing in Earth 2 #3, Grundy personifies "The Grey" life-destroying forces and opposes "The Green" forces that choose Alan Scott as their champion. Ragdoll II encounters Grundy in a doorway. Solomon Grundy is imprisoned orbiting the Earth in a stronger bubble created by the combined powers of Green Lantern and Doctor Fate. The radio continues its report, listing cities where Grundy was seen, so each member picks a city and heads for it to try to find Green Lantern while Wonder Woman stays behind. The heroes believe the threat of Grundy to have ended once and for all, but they are mistaken. [15], In his next appearance, Solomon Grundy battles the combined might of both the Justice Society, and later their counterparts the Justice League, nearly to a standstill at Slaughter Swamp, when he develops an affection for a lost alien child who has accidentally been sent to Earth-2 and is dying due to separation from his pet. He is named after the 19th century nursery rhyme "Solomon Grundy". [10], A battle soon commences when Grundy's body gravitates towards young astronomer Dick Cashmere as he learns to ride light waves, resulting in his assuming Cashmere's identity for a time while leaving the real one bound and gagged, though the Society finds him soon after. Grundy grabs Green Lantern by the throat and begins to squeeze the life out of him, holding his head underwater. In the late 19th century, a wealthy merchant named Cyrus Gold is murdered and his body is disposed of in Slaughter Swamp, near Gotham City. Solomon Grundy has had a long history in the DC comic universe. He is nearly invulnerable to physical, magical, and energy attacks and he is not affected by fire or low temperatures. [46] While he has occasionally been destroyed, he has always returned to life sooner or later, though often with different personalities and powers. In many ways, Solomon Grundy is DC's villainous answer to the Hulk - and every bit as complex. [25], Grundy's next major appearance is in Starman, lurking in Opal City's sewers. Solomon was once a wealthy merchant named "Cyrus Gold", who was murdered in the 19th century. Grundy recites the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme while being pursued before Batman finished it for him when he defeats Grundy. Solomon Grundy was briefly seen fighting Arkillo of the Sinestro Corps and Saint Walker of the Blue Lantern Corps. Batman is able to stop Grundy. In between issues #29… Appearing as a new enemy upon Earth 2, Solomon Grundy is the avatar of the Grey who seeks to kill the avatar of the Green. [14], Grundy was once pulled to Earth-1 and substituted for the superstrong Blockbuster due to a machine that was accidentally pulling the Earths together in warp-space and substituting people. Solomon Grundy is seen fighting against the Blood Pack in the Battle of Metropolis, until he is vaporized by Superboy-Prime's heat vision, which apparently kills the Blood Pack and destroys Grundy's current incarnation. Ra's findings into that new and more pure Lazarus substance was similar to others that he had previously found throughout the world, which dried up after a short amoun… During this event he had absorbed some of Dr Fate's magic, is stronger than before, and is even able to telekinetically lift the Flash into the air. Gold murders two escaped criminals who are hiding out in the marsh and steals their clothes. Cyrus met with her for a secret negotiation at Slaughter Swamp, several miles outside of Gotham. The same thing never happened on Justice League Unlimitedbecause he died thrice before the Legion even formed. And it's best if Solomon Grundy was not around for it" (a reference to the upcoming Blackest Night storyline). [35], He later appears in the Salvation Run mini-series as one of the villains exiled to another planet. According to Rykel, she was pregnant with Gold's child, and sought to extort money from him for her silence. Green Lantern arrives early for the meeting and when the other members arrive, they find their headquarters smashed to pieces and Green Lantern missing from the ranks. Peter Tomasi and Viktor Bogdanovic placed Batman in a situation that is pretty unique in itself. The scene now shifts back to the moment at JSA HQ where Green Lantern had opened the door. [9], A freak weather occurrence releases Solomon Grundy from his prison. Some versions are more mindless than others; some are actually moderately intelligent, recalling the literate, well-spoken monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.[27]. When asked about his name, one of the few things he can recall is that he was "born on a Monday". However, in the comics, he is also known to be an adversary of both Batman and Superman. [40], The Prime-Earth Solomon Grundy is introduced in DC Rebirth. He also has ties to Swamp Thing. “Solomon Grundy” is a poem and traditional nursery rhyme dating back to the 19th century England. Once Grundy found out that Marcie had duped him, he savagely beat her within an inch of her life. He apparently kills Green Lantern, who gives off a green flash. [57], When it came to his next encounter with Solomon Grundy, Alan was reunited with Sam Zhao who has become an avatar for the White. Bruce Banner was a scientist working with gamma rays. When Gold refused to yield to blackmail, Rachel's pimp… In the prequel comic to the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us, Grundy first appears in Year One. It has also been established that the Spawn of Frankenstein is partly animated by the immortal blood of Melmoth, making him a Grundyman. [38] Grundy then tracks down and attacks Bizarro, using a past friendship they had to stir up the creature's emotions. The two combat Grundy and each other until Bizarro leaves and Superman rips Grundy's head off when the zombie prevents him from going after Bizarro. In the later seasons the character was revealed to originally be named Cyrus Gold and became a zombie-like figure after his corpse was dumped in a swamp contaminated with experimental chemicals. [56], Eventually, Grundy's origin was revealed in a flashback. As Grundy will regenerate, Superman takes his body and head to Lex Luthor to find a way to make Grundy an asset to the Regime. In the first issue of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory, Issue #0 of the same name, one of the Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp recounts the death of the miserly pedophile, Cyrus Gold, killed at the hands of an enraged mob, but also mentions that Gold could just as easily have been the innocent victim of a misunderstanding, as Slaughter Swamp is a point in space where time means nothing. Liking this flash, Grundy commits murders hoping to see the flash again. Either way, the story of Solomon Grundy is a strange and harrowing tale full of magic and mystery. This cycle of reincarnation also gives him different abilities every time, so over the years he has varied drastically in strength and intelligence. However, the process was missing one vital piece: fire, as a Plant Elemental cannot be fully created unless it died in flames. [28] In the final issue, the same Unknown Man punishes another of his group – the Eighth Man, Zor – by dressing him in Cyrus Gold's clothing and leaving him for the mob to find, implying that Zor – an extremely vain character, notable for attempting several times to overthrow the Universe and for having defeated The Spectre – would later become the first Solomon Grundy. Because he is artificially animated, Solomon Grundy … He attacks Washington DC to get Alan's attention. He is imprisoned inside a mountain by Earth-1 Green Lantern after being lifted up by Earth-1 Hawkman and dazed by blows from all the heroes, but when the machine is turned off he is substituted for Blockbuster on Earth-2 and renews the attack, defeating numerous heroes. He is based on the 19th century nursery rhyme "Solomon Grundy."[1]. Grundy and a newly disfigured Harvey Dent strike up an odd friendship after Dent escapes the slaughterhouse to plot his revenge on Carmine Falcone. [21], This version repeatedly plagues Superman for years until, during an encounter wherein multiple Grundys are spawned, Superman and the Swamp Thing both encounter the clones. [4][5] It is the introduction to a seven part mini-series featuring the character. [12][13], After many years, Grundy is knocked loose from his planet prison and returns to Earth to battle Green Lantern, Hourman, and Doctor Fate. 1 Appearance 2 Superpowers 3 Depiction in the web series 3.1 Season two 3.2 Season three 3.3 Season four 4 Depiction in comics 4.1 Finals Crisis 4.2 Summer Olympus 4.3 Past Times at Super Hero High 5 References Solomon Grundy is a large, grey skinned zombie man with white, untidy hair and grey eyes. When Grundy appears again, he has returned to his malicious persona; the joint efforts of Jack Knight, Batman, Alan Scott, and The Floronic Man are needed to stop him. When injuries do occur, his body rapidly in a matter of seconds heals up the wounds, sometimes enabling himself to re-attach severed limbs right after they are hacked off. Fifty years later, he is reanimated to serve a new leader. Solomon Grundy also appeared in CGI form in the first season of the television series Stargirl for DC Universe and The CW network. In the police morgue, he transforms into Solomon Grundy. In this incarnation, he gains intelligence which he subsequently loses when Green Lantern defeats and buries Grundy in 1947. See more ideas about solomon grundy, grundy, dc villains. During a clash with Superman, it is determined that his might is too much for the Man of Steel, so Superman flies the monster to an alien world inhospitable to all save the hardiest life as the zombie propels himself through the air mimicking his one-time adversary. Will Hulk smash or will Grundy crush? Flash, Hawkgirl, and Green Lantern fight him, but Atom brings him down temporarily by jumping onto him at giant size. [16], While imprisoned, Grundy incorrectly deduces that the second Green Lantern's Earth must contain a second Solomon Grundy, and crosses over from his Slaughter Swamp prison on Earth-2 to Earth-1 where he overpowers that Earth's Superman before being tricked and stranded on the moon. Solomon Grundy is one of the few super-villains who has never actually faced his original enemy in any version of the DCAU: Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern of DC Comics. [37], In the countdown to Blackest Night, Cyrus Gold was given one week to discover the truth of who murdered him, so he could repent for all of his sins and gain absolution. Though Solomon Grundy never appears in Batman: Arkham Knight's prequel comic, seven clones of him appear where they all have been created by Calendar Man and named after the days of the week. Cyrus Gold (1985 - 2011) The bomb went off fusing Grundy and Banner together. In the parallel universe of Earth-Two, in the mid 19th century lived a corrupt sociopath named Cyrus Gold. He is also incredibly invulnerable, able to take massive amounts of damage with little injury. Cyrus GoldAppearances • Images • Gallery • Quotes, Solomon Grundy is an immortal zombie super-villain from the 19th Century with several origins. [33], In Brad Meltzer's Justice League of America, Grundy is reborn with intelligence after being killed in the Battle of Metropolis. [31] The aftermath of that battle is inconclusive, but Grundy evidently survives, as he was last seen in a murky swamp in JSA Classified. See, The first Psycho-Pirate was debuted by Gardner Fox and Joe Gallagher. His body is disposed of in Slaughter Swamp, outside of Gotham City. The undead monster known as Solomon Grundy is powerful, immortal and bad news for every hero unfortunate enough to cross his path. His strength has varied greatly through the years; for instance, in the Long Halloween story arc, Batman beat Grundy, while at various points his strength is roughly on par with Superman's. He participates in the final strike against the Secret Six. In the present, Solomon Grundy somehow returned to Earth, went on a decaying rampage, and fought members of the World Army where he was briefly dissolved. Using his ring, Green Lantern traps Grundy in a green plasma bubble for a time. At the end of the fight, exhausted, he reverts to Cyrus Gold again. Labs employee, who claims she is the great, great granddaughter of the man the monster spawned from, to find and cure him. He hates Green Lantern so much he thinks everyone he sees is Green Lantern. He brutally beats Hawkgirl until Superman appears, though the situation is rendered confusing as his imperfect clone Bizarro shows up as well. He returns to Gotham City, but is shot by police after attacking a charity worker. Cyrus got into trouble with Gotham's organized crime world and found himself getting killed and dumped in the a wetland known as the Slaughter Swamp. greenlantern, superman, superhero. Johnny turns on the radio, which blares the warning that Solomon Grundy is on the loose; the members believe, based on a large, muddy footprint on the floor, that Grundy got to HQ and took Green Lantern. He has long been one of the key members of the Injustice Society, a villain group that opposes the Justice Society of America. However, when the villains exit, Grundy's hand trembles, accompanied with a groaning sound. Current He then reformed his body and continued to go after Alan Scott. Ragdoll's scarred face relates to Grundy, and Grundy goes on to turn against the Secret Society. Solomon Grundy has superhuman strength and stamina. Once a rich, corrupt merchant who was killed and left to rot in Slaughter Swamp, now a shambling, unstoppable undead monster, Grundy isn't so much a DC Super-Villain as he is a force of nature. He is killed during a battle with Parademons. He is apparently destroyed yet again when Batman tricks the creature into a blast furnace, where it is apparently consumed by the flames.[22]. [17], Solomon Grundy briefly works with the Injustice Society when the Fiddler retrieves Grundy from the moon of Earth-One in order to attack the JSA. Sir Solomon appears to be identical in physical appearance to the mainstream Solomon Grundy with the exception of a trimmed mustache and a small goatee. Solomon Grundy appears in DC Super Hero Girls, voiced again by Fred Tatasciore. Making his way across country, Grundy heads for the headquarters of the Justice Society of America. Grundy proves to be a difficult opponent, unkillable (since he is already dead) and with an inherent resistance to Scott's powers (which cannot affect wood, a substance of which Grundy's reassembled body is now largely composed). Feb 24, 2018 - Explore Javier Perez's board "Solomon Grundy", followed by 4798 people on Pinterest. Cyrus assumed the new name of Solomon Grundy after a character in a nursery rhyme and became a ravenous monster. Labs which causes the Grundys to become inert, in effect killing the seemingly unkillable man-thing. The alien child is finally reunited with his pet and sent back to his own dimension. He is virtually indestructible and immortal thanks to the elemental energy that imbues his form with pseudo-life. He was testing his gamma bomb out in the desert, but a tall figure walked out into the testing area. Fifty ye… [7] Strong, vicious, and nearly mindless, Solomon Grundy falls into a life of crime—or perhaps returns to one, as his scattered residual memories may indicate—attracting the attention of the Green Lantern, Alan Scott. This version never became a zombie but was instead injected with a serum that gave him incredible strength. Grundy reappears in Year Five where he is revealed to be cargo the Regime soldiers are investigating. The battle continues until Scott once again exiles Grundy to the moon where neither he nor the "Grey" can do any damage. Solomon Grundy was created by Alfred Bester and Paul Reinman, first appearing in All-American Comics #61. Her cure warps her into a monster much worse than Grundy. As the heroes return they find Green Lantern had placed Grundy and Blockbuster together to occupy them, and the two have knocked the hate out of each other. The … Swamp Thing attempts to cry out for Superman to stop, as he believes Grundy to meet the definition of life, but Swamp Thing is unable to express this, due to physical difficulty in speaking. • The nursery rhyme is the inspiration for the DC Comics character Cyrus Gold/Solomon Grundy, a large, strong zombie supervillain created in 1944 as an adversary for the Green Lantern, though later a common foe of Batman and Superman. [55], In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. Eventually it is revealed that Gold committed suicide, meaning he forced the curse of Solomon Grundy on himself. Within the Slaughter Swamp Cyrus's body bonded with the plant-life and he eventually emerged as an undead behemoth with little memory of his past-life. Solomon Grundy is a DC Comics character who debuted as a Green Lantern villain in 1944 and has been fighting pretty much every hero in the DCU ever since, though he remains tied to Slaughter Swamp just outside Gotham. Solomon Grundy is a reanimated corpse stemming from a cursed place near Gotham City called Slaughter Swamp. The Red Tornado kills Grundy with F5 tornado winds, ripping him apart. During an aerial bombardment of Dover, he is blasted to life out of the rock from the white cliffs. 3) #18. Solomon Grundy is a poem and traditional nursery rhymes dating back to the 19th century England. He has been a member of the Black Lantern Corps, Injustice League, Injustice Society, Secret Society of Super-Villains Suicide Squad and the Fatal Five. Later as a somewhat humorous twist, Batman provides Solomon Grundy with a Thanksgiving dinner.[24]. In the animated series Challenge of the Super Friends, Grundy was a member of the Legion of Doom. [54], During the Emperor Joker storyline where the Joker warped reality, Solomon Grundy was the warden of Arkham Asylum. Cyrus Gold/Solomon Grundy, Arrow, 2013, season 2/episode 9: "Three Ghosts", Fictional character, a zombie supervillain in the DC Comics Universe, Articles and topics related to Solomon Grundy, It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One, https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/DC-Universe/Solomon-Grundy/, "New Lego game lets you team up with Joker, Harley Quinn and other DC bad guys", Solomon Grundy at the DC Database Project, Last Days of the Justice Society of America, Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame, Green Lantern Coaster (Warner Bros. Movie World), Green Lantern: First Flight (Magic Mountain), SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon_Grundy_(character)&oldid=998580623, DC Comics characters with accelerated healing, DC Comics characters with superhuman strength, Fictional characters from parallel universes, Fictional characters with plant abilities, Fictional characters who can duplicate themselves, Supervillains with their own comic book titles, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, ← The first Gambler was debuted by Henry Kuttner and Martin Nodell. [29], Grundy is manipulated by Gorilla Grodd via mind control into attacking Batman and Superman for President Luthor for the bounty of one billion dollars in Superman/Batman. He shows up in a hobo camp. Sir Solomon Grundy is a distinguished, poised mountain of a man. Calendar Man used them to help to kill the Batman, which took a whole week for him to defeat all the clones. One of the men at the camp mentions the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy (who was born on a Monday), and Gold adopts the moniker. Grundy was introduced as an enemy of comic book hero Alan Scott (the original Green Lantern), but has since become a prominent enemy for a number of superheroes such as Superman, Batman, the Green Lantern, and The Flash. To his surprise, Doiby Dickles walks in, and informs him that Grundy has freed himself and is on the loose. A clash with Alan Scott and Jade in the pages of Green Lantern Corps Quarterly ends with Grundy turning into a statue of petrified wood. He is eventually defeated by Batman and Superman, the former blasting his hands off and the latter ramming himself straight through Grundy's chest since he will reanimate. Green Lantern: The Animated Series (TV Series), https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Solomon_Grundy?oldid=2844513, Pages using DynamicPageList parser function. Apparently, something happened immediately afterwards. Grundy is then taken back to his Earth by the Justice Society. In the DC comics, Cyrus Gold became an inhuman zombie named "Solomon Grundy" after being murdered, when he was extorted for money due to becoming the father of a baby belonging to a prostitute. In Cullen Bunn's Sorcerer Kings storyline in Superman/Batman, The Creeper leads an army of Grundymen in a battle with Batman, Superman, and vampire Nina Skorzeny. Since then, his entire existence has been an … It is not known if Grundy is still using this building. His entire gang was put down by Kid Baltimore with a single bullet each except for Grundy who took two. [34] He is revealed to be the mastermind behind the abduction of Red Tornado's robot body (it is revealed he gained this intelligence when he was reborn after being burned by Prime). Grundy possesses a healing factor. Solomon Grundy had a counterpart on the Crime Syndicate of America's Earth called Sir Solomon Grundy who was a member of Quizmaster's Justice Underground. His appearance resembles that of his pre-Flashpoint depictions. [51] It is revealed that Solomon Grundy had been working by General Sam Lane who is responsible for the deaths of Miranda's family. When Green Lantern and Grundy meet, Grundy rips a tree out by its roots and smashes it into the Lantern. The Post-Crisis version of Solomon Grundy debuts during the "Batman: The Long Halloween" storyline. He is based on the 19th century nursery rhyme "Solomon Grundy." Solomon Grundy is a fictional character, usually depicted as a supervillain in DC Comics and an antihero in the DC Animated Universe. 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