SAND DEMON (Eddie Slick)	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Gerry Conway and Joe Brozowski; John Ostrander and Joe Brozowski

PERSONAL DATA

Real Name: Eddie Slick
Status: Deceased
Citizenship: American
Gender: Male
Eyes: (as Sand Demon): Red
Hair: Grey
First Appearance: (as Eddie Slick): Fury of Firestorm #51 (September 1986): "Collision Course"
(as Sand Demon): Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #74 (August 1988): "Personal Demon"
Creators: Gerry Conway and Joe Brozowski; John Ostrander and Joe Brozowski

HISTORY

Eddie Slick was a small time mobster who happened to look very much like Martin Stein. He was feeding mutagenic drugs to wrestlers (such as King Crusher) to enhance their performance. This drove King Crusher insane, and he began to pursue Eddie with the intent to kill him. Fortunately for Eddie, he ran across Martin Stein, who was on a date with Dr. Emily Rice, and King Crusher pursued Martin instead. Martin manifested Firestorm (after getting away from Emily) and Ronnie and the Professor stopped King Crusher and Eddie.

Eddie never did recover from this, and was caught by his mob, and buried in the Las Vegas desert. Eddie was revived as the Sand Demon, and attacked the mobsters who had killed him in Vegas, and confused the new Firestorm (Ronnie and Mikhail) who, for a time thought he was Martin Stein. This new Firestorm stopped the Sand Demon by striking the villain with a massive burst of heat, fusing him to glass. Later, separated from Firestorm, Raymond found the real Martin Stein.

POWERS AND WEAPONS

As the Sand Demon, Eddie Slick possessed the power to control sand, whipping it up to 100 mile per hour speeds. This sand blaster force could do tremendous damage, icluding stripping flesh from bone. Sand Demon could also fly by the wind force generated.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Sand Demon in chronological order click here