Azrael (Jean-Paul Valley) occurs as fictional character from DC Comics. He number one appeared in the 1st issue of the miniseries Batman: Sword of Azrael (1992, by Dennis O'Neil and Joe Quesada), and appeared as a supporting character in various Batman-related titles, before gaining his own self-titled series (also by O'Neil).

Jean-Paul Valley, the college student around Gotham City, was unaware that he was the latest inside the line of assassin-enforcers for the The correct sequence of St. Dumas, the sinister secret society, & got standard expert instruction and mental conditioning to develop him for his role since prior to he was natural. He was the test tube baby, and his genes had been spliced with those of beast before birth. Moreover, for virtually all of his pre-university life he experienced been brainwashed with "The System", the deep level of psychological conditioning. Vale lone learned of this upon a demise of his father, world health organization was likewise his predecessor, at which instance his conditioning was activated & he was required to choose higher a mantle of Azrael (known as for the angel of death). He rejected this "birthright," & sought to overcome his conditioning & reclaim his life. Vale played the polar role in the larger-than-life KnightSaga story arc (1993 - 1994), in which he substitute when Batman when Bruce Wayne was defeated & paralyzed at the mitts of Bane. Vale fought & defeated Scourge, however his performance when Batman was influenced by his Azrael conditioning; he grew more & more violent, leaving a villain called Shambles to fall to his dying, and refused to recognize Robin as his partner. Upon his link to to fitness, Wayne was forced to fight a technologically-enhanced Vale to reclaim his identity. Vale, disgraced, left Gotham & became Azrael over again.

When Azrael, Vale bore the costume inside blood-cherry & gold coloring. He for instance carried the flaming steel, however likewise utilized 2 retractable daggers hidden in the gauntlets of his costume. He unlocked his superhuman skills by tapping into "The System", which positioned the good strain in his mind, & at days seemed to become camping him insane. A subsequent Azrael series, chronicling Vale's battles against a Sequentially of St. Dumas, ran for Century issues between 1995 and 2003. Towards a prevent of the series' do, it was retitled Azrael: Professional of the Bat witharound an attempt to boost sales by ligature a series in using a rest of the Batman mythos, although this ploy ultimately failed. Azrael was flushed in the series' final issue.