In the WEBTOON Zatanna and the Ripper, Jack is revealed to have been a double act between Shauna Belzer (the third Ventriloquist) and the Flash villain Murmur, displaced in time by Zatanna’s nemesis Allura. The original “I, Vampire” stories in the House of Mysterystories of the 1980s identify Jack as a man named John Kelsey, who accidentally stabs himself with his own knife in a confrontation with vampire Andrew Bennett. (Although on Smallville, Vandal Savage stand-in Curtis Knox probably was Jack the Ripper.) Vandal Savage has also claimed to have been Jack the Ripper in the past, but it should be noted he’s a notorious liar. Several demons have taken responsibility as well: Calibraxis (in the Vertigo Hellblazerseries), Buzz, a frequent antagonist to Supergirl in the 90s Peter David series, and Bertok-Raaf (in 2020’s DC: The Doomed and the Damned) also claims to have influenced Jack the Ripper. In other comics, the Doom Patrol villain Red Jack (below) has claimed to be Jack the Ripper. As we learn in 2002’s Hawkman #7, Craddock met his end after escaping to the United States and getting hanged for his crimes by Nighthawk, the 19th century incarnation of Hawkman. In the comics, Jim Craddock was a stagecoach highway robber, as opposed to wealthy gentry who preyed on streetwalkers. That’s an invention of the show, as seen in the season one episode “Trials of the Demon!” The Jack the Ripper connection is never explicitly spelled out in text, per se, but it’s pretty simple to infer, given the time and place of the killings with which Craddock is involved. How much of “Gentleman” Jim Craddock’s print history ties in to his animated Batman: The Brave and the Bold appearance, which connects him to Jack the Ripper?
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