OJO MACABRA
Real Name: Candelaria Vélez (see comments)
Identity/Class: Human;
citizen of San Gusto
Occupation: Super-heroine
Group Membership: Zeitgeist's victims (see comments)
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Zeitgeist (Larry Ekler)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: San Gusto, South America (see comments)
First Appearance: Captain America I#442 (August, 1995)
Powers/Abilities: She had the power to petrify at a glance, but the nature of this ability was unrevealed (see comments).
Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed
History:
(Marvel Atlas#2: San Gusto) - Having the ability to petrify
with a glance, Candelaria Vélez took the identity of Ojo Macabra and
became one of her native country's few superheroes.
(Captain America I#442 (fb) - BTS) - Ojo Macabra was one of several South American superhumans slain by Zeitgeist, who took a picture of each one's death before stabbing them in the chest with his sword.
(Captain America I#442) - Schutz Heiliggruppe set up a temporary base in Buenos Aires to investigate the serial killings of numerous South American heroes and villains -- Blitzkrieger was looking over photographs of Ojo Macabra and the others (see comments) when he was killed by Zeitgeist as well.
Comments: Created by Mark Gruenwald, Dave Hoover, Sandra Floreau and Danny Bulanadi.
Ojo Macabra's name seems to be the equivalent of "evil eyes." Possibly a woman with a stare of death?
Spanish fan Skippy Farlstendoiro comments: "In Spanish, adjectives are declined with the gender of the name. "Ojo" ("eye") is male, so the correct adjective would be "Macabro" ("evil" or "macabre", in its male form), instead of "Macabra" (female form for the same adjective). There is a superstition of "evil eye" in Spanish-speaking countries, but it is not known as "ojo macabra" or anything like that. The common phrase is "mal de ojo" ("evil of eye"), with a less common word, "aojamiento" ("eye-ing"). The "evil eye" is an active belief in certain areas (including big cities), but it is not lethal, instead leading to a continuous tiredness and/or a patch of bad luck. Without any proof, it could be theorized that Ojo Macabra, with that name, had powers related to this (or a Black Cat/Felicia-Hardy-style equivalent)."
Her real name, powers, and country of origin were revealed in Marvel Atlas#2 -- the source of her power (whether by mutation, sorcery, technology, etc.) was unrevealed; San Gusto was once used as a base by the Hate-Monger.
I guess Ojo Macabra is supposedly in that group of
photographs laying on the desktop (see main image), but she was never
otherwise depicted anywhere else--other victims apparently seen in the
photos: Captain
Forsa, Defensor,
El Condor,
La
Bandera, Machete (Ferdinand Lopez), and Zona
Rosa.
--Ron Fredricks
New image by Ron Fredrick.
Profile by Prime Eternal.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Ojo Macabra should not be confused with:
images: (without ads)
Captain America I#442, p1, pan3 (photos of Zeitgeist's victims; Blitzkrieger's thoughts in captions)
Appearances:
Captain America I#442 (August, 1995) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Dave Hoover, Sandra Florea (pencils), Danny Bulanadi (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
First posted: 01/29/2006
Last updated: 01/03/2025
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