Kane carries the curse of immortality, although he can be slain by violence. Just don’t call him an “anti-hero”-Wagner despised the term. Wagner does a skillful job rendering him identifiable and human, just sympathetic enough to earn our rooting interest (in most stories-in some he’s a real bastard). While Kane lacks a traditional morality, he’s not a serial killer or sadist, but a mercenary. This aspect of his identity is hinted at in the stories rather than explicitly stated, which adds to his general coolness and mystery. Kane is the rumored Cain of the Hebrew bible, cursed by his creator for some ancient transgression. Dark of nature and enigmatic of motive, the red-headed, blue-eyed, immortal Kane, the creation of the pen of Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994), is very much cut from this same cloth.
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