Peacemaker (comics)
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The Peacemaker is a superhero owned by Charlton Comics who was later acquired by DC Comics.
Charlton Comics
The Peacemaker first appeared as a backup series in Charlton Comics's Fightin' 5 title, starting with #40 in 1967. When that title was cancelled with issue #41, he got his own title starting with issue #1, with the Fightin' 5 as a backup series. His title would end with #5, but artwork for a sixth issue was done (some of this artwork has appeared on-line). Artwork was by Pat Boyette.
The Peacemaker was really Christopher Smith, a pacifist diplomat who is so committed to peace that he is willing to use force as a superhero to advance the cause. He used an array of special, non-lethal, weapons and planes to achieve this. Most of the villians he went up against were dictators and warlords.
DC Comics
When the character was acquired by DC Comics, this contradictory motivation was explained as a serious mental illness brought on by the shame of having a Nazi death camp commandant for a father. He believes that his father's spirit haunts him continually and criticizes his every move even as he tries to live down his past.
He would become a government agent under the auspices of Checkmate (a paramilitary version of the CIA in the DC universe. Its agents are highly trained and wear specialized, almost superhero like outfits). The DC Peacemaker was later killed by Eclipso in Eclipso #13, and a man called Mitchell Black is the new Peacemaker. The Peacemaker would appear in the miniseries titled The L.A.W. (Living Assault Weapons) reunited with the other heroes acquired from Charlton.
He was briefly shown in flashbacks in Alex Ross and Mark Waid's comic Kingdom Come as a member of Magog's Justice Battalion, along with the rest of the Charlton 'Action Heroes'. In them, he is wearing an outfit more reminiscent of Boba Fett from Star Wars. He was apparently killed with the other members when Captain Atom was killed.
The character was adapted in the famous comic book Watchmen as The Comedian.