Pale Wanderer

Origin

After the fighting at Picachio in 1862 a soldier moved out to the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, to have a quiet and peaceful solitude life. He would come to town to do odd jobs but then the great depression hit and turned the town into a ghost town overnight. Desperate the soldier trekked into the heart of the desert and was not seen for a long while.

Almost 50 years later, oil jacks near Yuma found the soldier in one of their storage houses. He was drinking the crude oil like water, and he had transformed into a monster with fangs and claws. He had been become the Pale Wander and would attack people in “his desert”.

He always attacked when it was hot, and only at night. He would eat his victim and would leave the desert covered in blood and horror.

Creation

The Pale Wander was created by Ram V for his The Swamp Thing series.

Major Story Arcs

Becoming

For more information see: The Swamp Thing

In modern days, the Pale Wander has started killing again, and this leads to the local law enforcers to investigate. One night while in the desert the local sheriff is attacked by the Pale Wander, and is only saved by Swamp Thing, who bursts from a cactus. The Pale Wander, attacks Swamp Thing and rips him to sherds. It is revealed that the Pale Wander can talk and seems to be smarter than just a blood thirsty monster.

Over the next couple nights, the Pale Wander, goes on a killing spree. He kills a poor truck driver, a woman crossing the Mexican border and a small boy camping. Each night Swamp Thing appears, too late to stop the Pale Wander and each night the Pale Wander kills Swamp Thing and sends him back underground. This goes on until one night when the sheriff shows back up in the desert in an attempt to kill the monster.

The Pale Wander is about to kill the sheriff when the Swamp Thing shows up but this time, he is more powerful and is able to grow a tree inside the Pale Wander, ripping him apart and killing him for good.