SKY-WALKER
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Apparently terrestrial with access to advanced extradimensional/extraterrestrial technology
Occupation: Unrevealed
Group Membership: Stranger's Prisoners
Affiliations: Viela (lover) and residents of the planet Starron;
Daredevil (Matt Murdock);
former pawn of Overmind
Enemies: Death-Stalker (Phillip Sterling);
briefly forced to fight Makkari the Eternal, Quasar
(Wendell Vaughn), the Stranger,
and Earth-712's Squadron Supreme
Known Relatives: Viela may or may not have been his wife
Aliases: The Sky-Walker from Starron; Starron (see comments)
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
formerly Earth and Stranger's
laboratory world;
at least previously Starron
First Appearance: Daredevil I#128 (December 1975)
Powers/Abilities: In addition to his access to advanced weaponry, he wore full body armor which enabled him to survive in the vacuum of space; his boots contained suction cups which enabled him to scale vertical surfaces. He carried an energy rifle which was connected to twin fuel pods on his back; via "stellar energy," this rifle could energize him to create "star-steps," progressively higher energy platforms that served as stairs via which he could exit a planet's atmosphere, at least.
Sky-Walker survived over six centuries on Earth, indicating a slowed aging process.
Sky-Walker somehow sensed Daredevil was blind, whether via analysis and deduction, sensing energy patterns, or perhaps via some telepathic abilities.
Sky-Walker's detection of Daredevil's words after he had departed Earth's atmosphere (or was in its upper levels) supports telepathic abilities.
Traits: A strong longing for his adoptive planet (Starron) and his lover Viela.
Height:
5' 8"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Unrevealed
History:
(Daredevil I#128 (fb) - BTS) - Per his
own account (which
he reviewed to himself, with no reason to be
deceitful), the man who would become
known as Sky-Walker was born on Earth centuries
ago, but he somehow traveled to the distant
world of Starron.
(Daredevil I#128 (fb) - BTS) - Starron was "in the blackness of space on an infinitesimal dot of light."
(Marvel Legacy: The 1970s Handbook: Sky-Walker / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Sky-Walker) - Starron is a "sub-atomic world," in a parallel dimension accessed via the energies of shrinking.
(Daredevil I#128 (fb) - BTS) - Sky-Walker fell in love with Starron native Viela.
(Daredevil I#128 (fb) - BTS / Marvel Legacy: The 1970s Handbook: Sky-Walker / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Sky-Walker) - Following the discovery that Starron would eventually explode, the planet's "Masters" - perhaps blaming Sky-Walker for the discovery, whether they believed it true or not — exiled Sky-Walker to late 14th century Earth, where the adventurer, who now regarded Starron as home, longed to return to Viela regardless of risk.
In recent years, Sky-Walker learned of a rare stellar alignment that would allow him to return to Starron, regardless of the Masters' orders.
(Daredevil I#128 (fb)) - Sky-Walker traveled to Flushing Meadow Park (home of the 1964-1965 World's Fair) and ascended a giant rocket in the Science Pavilion.
(Daredevil I#128 - BTS) - Unbeknownst to Sky-Walker, the criminal Death-Stalker was in the process of stealing the lenses created by the ancient Atlantean wizard C'Thunda; while Death-Stalker's powers/technology had allowed him to bypass all security measures, Sky-Walker set off a silent alarm, which ultimately summoned the super-heroic Daredevil.
(Daredevil I#128) - Sky-Walker fired his rifle and generated a classic atom-shape energy explosion, which -- apparently in conjunction with the alignment of the stars -- generated cosmic energy; he absorbed this cosmic energy to form "star-steps," which he climbed to begin his journey.
As Daredevil arrived and fought Death-Stalker, the villain teleported onto Sky-Walker's "star-steps," and Daredevil pursued him onto the steps.
(Daredevil I#128 / Marvel Legacy: The 1970s Handbook: Sky-Walker) - Eventually Death-Stalker inadvertently bumped into Sky-Walker; this disrupted the villain's power, sending Death-Stalker into the pocket dimension in which he spent most of his time.
(Daredevil I#128 - BTS) - By the time Daredevil regained his bearings, the Sky-Walker was long gone, having continued his walk into space.
(Daredevil I#128) - When Daredevil noted that he was gone, Sky-Walker--despite being high into (or possibly having already departed) Earth's atmosphere--replied, "No, my blind friend...not gone. Though I fear you may not have seen the last of me. For, should I be forced to return, I may yet be the death of you."
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Sky-Walker) - Sky-Walker's comments perhaps indicated that Earth would face whatever menace threatened Starron.
(Quasar I#14 (fb) - BTS / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Sky-Walker) - The enigmatic Stranger subsequently captured Sky-Walker, although whether before or after he reached Starron is unrevealed.
(Quasar I#16) - When the Over-Mind attacked the Stranger on his laboratory planet, Sky-Walker was one of those sent to battle the Stranger and his allies Quasar, Makkari the Eternal, and Earth-712's Squadron Supreme. His fate after the conclusion of the battle is unrevealed, but numerous inmates escaped, so it is entirely possible he returned to his journey.
Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman, Bob Brown, and Klaus Janson.
This character wins my award for Master of Obscurity. No origin, no follow-up; he was not even named in either appearance. Marvel Comics Index#9B lists him as "Sky-Walker", but in the advertisement for "Journey into Mystery," the four-part saga in Quasar#13-16, the name Starron is one of those listed in the background. Lastly, I couldn't quite place the Walker in Quasar#16, but Kurt Busiek (lord of all knowledge) named him as the Sky-Walker from Starron.
In Quasar#16, he had a cameo appearance among some of the other inmates of the Stranger's laboratory world.--Ron Fredricks
Perhaps Black
Axe, Amentah and Sky-Walker
were from the same kingdom that
the Golden Age Hero Dynaman was
from---Korug. Seeing that Dynaman
was alive centuries after his
Daring Mystery Comics#6 (9/40)
story took place: see
Avengers/Invaders#12 (8/09) during
World War 2. So Dynaman is either
also immortal or else time travel,
resurrection or suspended
animation was used to get him to
the 1940s.
--Gammatotem
Sky-Walker has an entry in Marvel Legacy: The 1970s Handbook, updated and expanded in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z.
New and additional images by Ron Fredricks.
Profile by Snood, reformatted by Luis Dantas.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Sky-Walker has no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
Daredevil I#128, p12, pan2-5 (main image - Sky-Walker forming "star-steps")
Daredevil I#128, p10, pan7 (headshot - Sky-Walker, visor up)
Daredevil I#128, p11, pan1 (headshot - Sky-Walker, visor down)
Daredevil I#128, p18, pan6 (Sky-Walker using "star-steps" to walk home)
Quasar I#16, p15, pan2 (Sky-Walker among other prisoners of Stranger's laboratory world)
Appearances:
Daredevil I#128 (December, 1975) - Marv Wolfman (writer/editor), Bob Brown (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks)
Quasar I#16 (November, 1990) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Mike Manley (pencils), Dan Panosian & Keith Williams (inks), Len Kaminski (editor)
First posted: Uncertain, but before 09/15/2001 (Sky-Walker was one of the first 238 profiles I posted on the site, perhaps part of initial upload before I began adding them to appnew page)
Last updated: 07/14/2025
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