Monster Files - Gorgon

APPEARENCES: SJA - 'Eye of the Gorgon'.

HOME PLANET: (unknown)

POWERS:

• When Gorgons touch their victim, their victim turns to stone.
• Mind control

WEAKNESSES: If the blue, serpentine Gorgons are deflected away from their victim by a mirror they go straight back to their Host (who they possess) which then turns the Host into stone, destroying the Gorgons in the process

OTHER INFORMATION:

• 3 Gorgons came to Earth in about 1000 BC using a talisman, entering into Greek mythology along the way. 1 Gorgon was slain by a Greek hero, a 2nd by a man and his wife (Edgar and Bea) in 1959, and the last Gorgon survived.