Ray (comics)

Ray (comics)

The Ray is the name of four fictional characters, all superheroes in the DC Comics universe.

The first Ray was Lanford "Happy" Terrill, a Quality Comics character. When DC Comics later purchased Quality Comics, Happy Terrill was retconned as a member of the Freedom Fighters on Earth-2. Following DC altering much of its continuity and history in the storyline Crisis on Infinite Earths, Happy Terrill was now an inhabitant of the mainstream DC Comics universe and his son Ray Terrill became the second Ray. Later, the character Stan Silver briefly operated as the third hero called "the Ray." In the "New 52" relaunch of DC Comics, where continuity and history is again being restructured, a new character called Lucien Gates is introduced as the Ray. Although historically he is the fourth superhero character to use this name, in The Ray #1, set in a rebooted continuity, he refers to the origin of Happy Terrill as a story he had heard as a child.