I know, I looked it up after my guess.

Just a guess -
Metron?

Wow, just looked it up -
I could have guessed for a year and not gotten it!

I would have never, ever, ever gotten it even with hints, because although I knew of the character, I didn't realize he was a clone of a Marvel character.

Well, I'm back and I haven't a frickin' clue.

Alright then. One last clue.

He was in a crossover a few years ago with Red Sonja.

So, let's recap, shall we?

He's a clone, of sorts, of a character made popular by Marvel.
He has a deformity.
He's met Red Sonja.

Who was played by Brigitte Nielsen, who was in The Hustle with David Alan Grier, who was in The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon.

You're not talking about Claw (who is, as you know, Unconquered), are you?

I object to your "Marvel character clone" hint, if you are. Conan is as much as "Marvel character" as Luke Skywalker is. And really, "clone" is a bit much.

--wyld

Well, prior to the Ah-nold films, Conan was best known, to the widest audience, by the Marvel comic books. I will give you that "clone" is a bit much, except in the fact that all sword-and-sorcery heroes that followed him were inspired by Conan; it's as valid a point as to say that the Martian Manhunter is a "clone" of Superman.

MM as a clone of Supes? Only in that they are similar in backgrounds.
Both from dead planets. And it's in that way I meant the two I mentioned are alike as well as in their physical appearance.




Take a good look at Claw. Except for the hand, he looks like a Conan knock-off. And I said "a clone, of sorts". Not an exact clone. You can object all you want, it doesn't change things.

Oh, and "Valcan Scaramax" is better known as "Claw The Unconquered"

Wyld has the thread.

And aren't you glad I gave it a bit more time so as you could come up with the correct answer?

Well, by the time the JLofA was originally formed, the writers and editors were ignoring MM's non-Kryptonianlike powers such as telepathy, shape-shifting, etc. In most of the JLA stories he was just doing the same things Superman was doing, like flying, using super-strength and super-breath, etc. Eventually they realized they didn't need two Supermen, and J'Onny went marching home and out of the mainstream DC universe for 15 years.