The obituary writer at the Daily Bugle tells Ben Urich that the worst part of his job is having to write an obituary for superheroes. Finding someone you thought was dead is alive is so common that there's a checklist to go through. Exhibit D: Astonishing X-Men, The Cure: When Shadowcat finds Colossus alive and well, she is lucid enough to quickly run through the gamut of all the possible explanations: You have to know, if you're a clone or a robot or an alternate universe thingie, I can deal, but if you're some shapeshifter or pscionicist watching me twitch, I will kill you with an axe.
Superman gives a eulogy for Martian Manhunter in which he says he'll be praying for him to be resurrected. An in-universe explanation of why the cycle of death and resurrection are just part of the job description of superheroes and supervillains, apparently.
And sure enough, one Celestial Death Seed later, he's alive and well on Krakoa. When Cyclops delivers Banshee's video will and she has to face the possibility that it's the real deal, she switches her coping mechanism to OK, but he's an X-Man, and X-Men are always dying and coming back to life, so he's only dead for now. She's going to get a notice in a couple of days that he's just fine and he's in hiding for black ops reasons. When the rest of the team offers its condolences, she asks who's up for Chinese food. She totally laughs it off at first, because he's an old MI-5 agent, and he's had to fake his death a couple of times before. There's a 30 some-odd issue arc where Siryn flat-out refuses to acknowledge that her father Banshee was killed in a plane explosion battling Vulcan. Matt’s point - the in-universe acknowledgment both Marvel & DC have introduced that death isn’t permanent, and how that’s starting to affect people Exhibit A: X-Factor.
He was killed by henchman of a gangster he helped incarcerate. Intro Background (1:42) Comic book death - the Comet was the first superhero to die in the comics, in Pop Comics #17 (July 1941) - created by Jack Cole for MLJ Comics, the precursor to Archie Comics, John Dickering was a scientist who injected himself with a gas that allowed him to fly at the expense of uncontrollable rays that shot from his eyes. About Issue 121 - Comic book death Episode
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