Timothy Hunter
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Timothy Hunter (often called Tim Hunter) is a fictional comic book character in the DC Comics universe, a young sorcerer who first appeared in the four-issue miniseries The Books of Magic (1990-91), written by Neil Gaiman, with painted art by John Bolton.
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[edit] Character history
In that story, a group of four DC mystics — John Constantine, the Phantom Stranger, Mister E, and Doctor Occult (the Trenchcoat Brigade) — approach the young Hunter and inform him he had the potential to become the world's greatest magician. In A Christmas Carol fashion, he is taken on a journey to the mystic parts of the DC Universe's past (by the Phantom Stranger), its present (by Constantine), and its future (by Mister E), and also shown the world of the Faerie (by Doctor Occult), along with such other planes of existence as The Dreaming).
After the journey, he must decide whether to remain an ordinary boy or to follow the path of magic. After some thought, he chooses the former, then immediately recants the choice. However, he had made the decision long before.
The original miniseries was collected as a 1993 trade paperback. Subsequent Tim Hunter appearances have included the one-shot Arcana: The Books of Magic in 1993 (part of the Vertigo title cross-over series "The Children's Crusade" in which Tim Hunter appeared a second time), the ongoing series The Books of Magic, which ran 75 issues from May 1994 to August 2000, plus three annuals starting 1997; the two-issue miniseries Hellblazer / The Books of Magic (Dec. 1997 - Jan. 1998); the Names of Magic miniseries, which led into the Hunter: The Age of Magic series. The slightly differently spelled series Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, which ran 15 issues from September 2004 to October 2005, was also a story about an older Tim Hunter, but was not rooted in the continuity of the earlier volumes.
Other trade-paperback collections include The Books of Magic: The Summoning (1996).
[edit] Similarities to Harry Potter
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Many people have noticed similarities between Timothy Hunter — a bespectacled English teenager with family troubles who has a magical owl as a pet — and the later and more famous Harry Potter of J.K. Rowling's novels. Gaiman has been quoted as saying that any similarities between the two are largely superficial and most likely reflect the fact that both draw on common archetypes. Most significantly, the original miniseries was published long before the Harry Potter books, the first of which was published in 1997.
[edit] Trivia
Timothy Hunter bears the face of Bolton´s elder brother at young age.
[edit] External links
- International Hero webpage on Timothy Hunter
- Neil Gaiman interview refuting accusations of plagiarism
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