Jefferson Pierce
Black Lightning: the electric hero who ends up chairing the Justice League.
Jefferson Pierce is Black Lightning, a DC Comics superhero created by writer Jenny Blake Isabella and artist Trevor Von Eeden who first appeared in Black Lightning #1 (April 1977). He was DC's first African-American superhero to headline his own series; in his earliest stories he is a schoolteacher from the Suicide Slum area of Metropolis, and he is generally depicted with the power to generate and control electricity.
Quick Facts
- Voiced by
- Khary Payton
- Powers
- Electricity manipulation
Lore & Background
In Young Justice, Black Lightning is voiced by Khary Payton and is initially a member of the Justice League. In the third season he resigns from the League after accidentally killing a young metahuman on Rann and is persuaded to join Nightwing's Outsiders. At the end of that season he accepts the chairmanship of the Justice League from Kaldur'ahm.
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