The "Birds of Prey" is an unofficial name used to refer to the partnership of heroes instigated by Barbara Gordon — Oracle (formerly the original Batgirl). Oracle has never given a name to her ring of covert operatives, but has masterminded many missions over the years. Oracle began her adventuring as Batgirl, but after she was shot in the spine by the Joker (The Killing Joke), she turned her crimefighting attentions to cyberspace. As Oracle, she first approached the covert Suicide Squad, offering her services as a hacker and information broker. Eventually, she even showed her face to the team, but none of its members knew her real name. Around this same time, she contracted her first freelance operative: Power Girl. In her first mission in the Middle East, she was forced to decide between the fates of one head of state and hundreds of people on a boat. The people died, and Power Girl was traumatized; from then on, she was unwilling to work with Oracle. (Birds of Prey #42) Only once since then has she responded, in order to save Black Canary's life. (#12) Barbara knew that establishing a rapport with one operative would be best, and out of the large pool of potential candidates, she chose the Black Canary. (BoP Secret Files #1) Canary had the right resume: a past with the JSA and JLA, and a life that — at the time — was directionless at best. Canary was game, but not, in the beginning, privy to Oracle's identity; the pair spent some time working out the kinks. Some of those first missions also involved Catwoman and the Huntress, but neither of those was welcomed to stick around. While online, Oracle also struck up a friendship with someone known only as "BB." Once they met, she discovered that this was in fact Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle. (#15) The Beetle ran a couple missions before discovering that he had a serious heart condition. After this, his adventuring was curtailed, but he continued to help out in a technological capacity. (#39-40) As Oracle's prowess grew, so did her stable of enemies. It was inevitable that one would eventually trace her to her clock tower headquarters in the Gotham City. In this case, Canary saved Babs from the clutches of Blockbuster and the two finally met in person. (#21) She has shown many signs of a forgiving nature not so prevalent in her own mentor, the Batman. After Black Canary was kidnapped and severely beaten by the man called Savant, she recruited Savant into her service, challenging him to clean up a particulary surly Gotham neighborhood. (#74) In this he succeeded, but has since disappeared. The case with Savant also brought the most significant addition to the team — Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress. The Huntress was drawn in as a last resort to rescue Canary from Savant. Her past with Oracle has been strained, but she found a genuine friend in Canary, who persuaded both Oracle and Huntress to attempt a team of three. (#69) Soon after the Huntress signed on, Oracle's headquarters was destroyed and compromised. She was tired of the baggage that Gotham held and so decided to take the show on the road... or more specifically, the air. Oracle recruited a fourth partner, Zinda Blake, also known as Lady Blackhawk. Blake was also looking for a change and gladly procured a state-of-the art plane which could shuttle the Birds to and from their missions nationwide. (#75) It was also Zinda who at last coined the name for Oracle's ooperation: The Birds of Prey. (#86) The tension never really subsided between Oracle and the Huntress. Helena eventually deduced that Oracle had asked her to join them only because she was viewed as a "pet project," a misguided hero just waiting for a little guidance. Helena was enraged, and quit the team. (#80) With the Huntress gone, Canary called in some help from one of her own mentors, Wildcat. (#81) The Vixen has also served undercover in one known case. (#69-72) Most recently, the young heroine, Gypsy, has joined the group. (#92) Oracle was recently given metahuman-like ability after being invaded by Brainiac. After apparently defeating him, she left with the ability to directly interface with computers. This ability came with a heavy cost; Brainiac's circuitry threatened to overtake her like a virus, and kill her. Oracle was ultimately forced to swallow her pride and agreed to undergo surgery. This was performed by Dr. Mid-Nite, and amazingly, following this she regained some sensation in her legs. After leaving Gotham, Oracle established a new headquarters in Metropolis, Dalten Tower (designed by the same architect as many Gotham buildings). Zinda unveiled a new helicopeter, the Aerie Two, and handed out new jackets bearing a modified Blackhawk logo (for the Birds of Prey). (#86) Oracle also began rebuilding bridges with Huntress, and backed a plan by Helena to infiltrate Gotham's mobs. Though Helena at first refused full-time membership, she was soon convinced after the successful completion of their mission. Even the Batman was impressed when Huntress finally handed over a complete list of the mob's key members. (#86-91) Helena accepted full-time affiliation amidst this. (#88) When Earth was beseiged by the villainy of Alexander Luthor, Oracle herself became the number one target of thge Society's Calculator, her opposite number. Society members tortured her former associate, Savant. (#88) Savant disappeared after this incident. It may have been sufficient impetus for him to return to a life of crime. Black Canary's continued exploration into the martial arts led her into more direct contact with the world's master, Lady Shiva. She agreed to become Shiva's pupil, in the secret hopes that she could turn the assassin away from her murderous ways. Even Green Arrow noticed the Canary's improvements. Dinah eventually went so far as to challenge Shiva to trade lives with her. Each agreed to live the other's lives completely. After the "Crisis," Shiva joined on with the Birds as the Jade Canary, and Dinah ventured to Shiva's homeland in Southeast Asia to undergo training with her "Mother." At this time, Oracle added Gypsy as a full-time operative. (#92) Dinah found a brual life in Asia, and met a little girl named Sin, whom the "Mother" was training to become the next Shiva. Dinah successfully completed Mother's trials, but refuesed to compromise her true self, or allow Sin to become an assassin. While with the Birds, Shiva participated in a mission to save the Crime Doctor, who agreed to reveal the Society's secrets to Oracle. In the process, they protected his daughter, Bethany. (#93) Dinah and Shiva decided to end their challenge simultaneously; neither could assume the other's ideals. 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Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey #1 (1996). Named as such: Birds
of Prey #86 (November 2005)
Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey #1, one-shot (1996)
Birds of Prey: Manhunt, 4-issue limited series (1996)
Birds of Prey: Revolution, one-shot (1997)
Birds of Prey: Wolves, one-shot (1997)
Birds of Prey: Batgirl, one-shot (February 1998)
Birds of Prey, ongoing (1999-present)
Oracle • Black
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Lady Blackhawk Goes Bad
Newsarama:
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Janos Prohaska was born on October 31, 1912 in Krakow, Poland amid a country in turmoil. During his young life, he would experience ravages of both the Great War and Poland's war with Russia. His father committed suicide in 1929 and Janos was forced to leave his younger siblings, Józek and Staszka, in the care of his aunt. Janos himself joined the Polish air force where he met his good friend Stanislaus Drozdowski. They gained skills in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship and aviation. By 1936 they were national heroes. When the political climate in Poland grew sour, the young men went into freelance service, which took them abroad. They served in the Spanish Civil War and traveled aimlessly for a while. (Secret Origins #45)
During this time, Janos went to America with a flying circus in hopes of finding funding for a European resistance group. Instead he was framed for a series of murders. He was ultimately exonerated through the efforts of the Sandman and returned to Poland. A few days later, Wes Dodds and Dian Belmont received a false report that he has been shot down and killed by Nazi fighters in the Mediterranean. (Sandman Mystery Theatre #45-48)
On 1 September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and Prohaska returned in defense of his home. He was unable to prevent the Nazis from killing his remaining family. Soon thereafter, Jan organized a multinational group of aviators he dubbed the Blackhawks. This original group included: American brawler Capt. Carlos "Chuck" Sirianni; Swedish acrobat Capt. Olaf Friedricksen; the elder, Dutchman Capt. Ritter Hendrickson; ladies' man Capt. André Blanc-Dumont; and Chinese martial artist Lt. Weng Chan. In March of 1942, the Blackhawks shared an adventure with the All-Star Squadron against the wizard, Wotan, in England. (All-Star Squadron #48-49)
After Stanislaus died in a take-off to battle (Blackhawk v.2 #2), the team was joined by Captain Natalie Reed (nee Gurdin, a.k.a Lady Blackhawk), an Russian-American member of the Communist party. A brilliant flight engineer, Reed redesigned the Blackhawks' aircraft (Blackhawk v.2 #1-3). Reed served with the Blackhawks throughout the war and eventually renounced her membership in the Communist party.
After the war, the Blackhawks all went their separate ways. Jan found himself in the new nation of Vietnam, where in 1947, he was approaced by Cynthia Hastings with a proposition to retrive lost treasure. This gold was originally stolen by the Japanese in Indochina, found in Hanoi by the French in 1946, and stolen again by their clerk, Robert Massié. The last anyone knew, Massié was then overtaken by a Chinese crime lord known as the Red Dragon. Cynthia hoped to be able to offer the Dragon their services to get the gold out of the country, and then hijack it. Jan agreed to the plan and took a cargo plane and enough whiskey to tempt the Dragon. Before leaving, he also wrote a letter to Blanc-Dumont, asking him to join the mission covertly.
Jan faked engine trouble to land on the Dragon's air strip and the two were taken captive by the Red Dragon. They're suprised to learn that the Dragon is a woman: Sheah Chun Ryan. The Dragon agreed to Jan and Cynthia's proposal, but insisted that Hastings must remain behind as insurance. Cynthia soon revealed her true identity as a Catholic nun and raced after a Buddha among the treasures. She explains thtat when France fell to Germany, Catholic bishops put their artifacts in Buddhist care. The Red Dragon was unsympathetic to her cause and ordered them killed. Just then, lightning struck and allowed them to escape with the statue. André, joined by Chuck Sirianni swooped in to save the day, and the Red Dragon's plane was shot down. (Action Comics #601-608)
In June 1947, Natalie rejoined Blackhawk Airways at their new base in Singapore. Jan used his gold from the Red Dragon case to upgrade the Blackhawks planes (which had been reacquired from Interpol) and start a charter service. In addition, Jan asked Chuck to try to use his O.S.S. connections and to buy two refitted XF5F-1 planes from the U.S. They were approached for hire by an undercover operative of the U.S. Central Intelligence Group named Steve Claiborne. His sister, Marcia Rossiter had disappeared on a mission to obtain a Japanese microwave generator. Her plane had gone down in Sumatra, where another interested party (and 5th Column survivor), Johannes Vander Houten.
Weng and Olaf rejoined the squad for this mission, but when they arrive, Jan exploded over the possibility that Olaf was the father of Natalie's child. Natalie denies that but admitted that the two had slept together. The squad landed at Vander Houten's camp, and were immediately captured. Jan escaped with Marcia and the two holed up in a temple overnight, where things inevitably turned intimate. Though one of Vander Houten's men did discover the generator, the volcano on which it lay began to erupt. The villain gave up on the generator and attacked the Blackhawks, but Jan led him through the cone of the volcano just as it erupted. Jan blamed Claiborned for Marcia's death; she was fatally wounded during their escape. (#615-622)
Natalie found life in Asia difficult but hired Quan Chee ("Mairzey") Keng to help her on the ground. She missed her son, but could not risk moving home because of all the anti-Communist paranoia. For their next mission, the Blackhawks were tapped by the U.S. government itself. At the behest of Admiral Hillenkoeffer, Jan received an invitation to meet with President Truman. Jan was briefed on protocol for their presidential visit by Wendell Hardesty from the State Department. Truman proposed that Jan serve as a special covert operations agent. Further, Blackhawk Airways would be secretly purchased by the U.S. and serve as a front for the nascent CIA, which was "not yet ready" for missions. The operation would also move to Washington D.C.
The Blackhawks accepted this offer, and their first mission: to transport a modified form of LSD from Germany. Its inventor, Dr. Schmeling's office was destroyed and his drug was also coveted by a secret cell of Nazis. He was accompanied on the mission by pharmaceutical head, Constance Darabont. The Nazis' Gretchen Koblenz attacked and replaced Darabont, but Olaf sensed her subterfuge and caught her drugging their coffee. Koblenz shots Olaf then parachuted off the plane with a plan to sell the LSD to the Soviets. The Blackhawks were left mad from the drug and abandoned their plane.
They receive an Claiborne is kidnapped. Natalie is kidnapped. The Blackhawks obtain papers for Mairsey, who joins them in the U.S. (#628-634)
She found herself in rough waters in the late '40s and early '50s, when the "Red Scare" permeated the U.S. Congress. She was forced by the State Department to give up her career in aviation and returned to America as a comic book writer. Though she wanted to write "the facts," her editors censored her in light of growing anti-communist paranoia. (In post-Crisis continuity, Natalie Reed's doctored comic book scripts of the late 1940s represent the Blackhawks' original pre-Crisis adventures.) Also after the war, Reed had a brief affair with Hendrickson, producing a son, James. (Action #630-631, Blackhawk v.3 #1) The two had barely come to terms with their breakup when Hendrickson died in a helicopter explosion over Albania. (Blackhawk Annual #1)
Also, Jan is meant to take some of the anti-communist heat.
In 1958, they were joined by a second Lady Blackhawk, Zinda Blake (Blackhawk #133, 2.59). She served off-and-on for some time before disappearing amid the time fluctuations caused by Zero Hour. She emerged decades in the future.
Later, Weng, Chuck & Jan were called to President Truman's office to be recruited as special agents in covert mission. This operation was administered by the fledgling CIA. At this time, the government offered to buy Blackhawk Airways outright. Their first mission: to escort a U.S. official to Germany to retrieve a dangerous new chemical called LSD. (Action #630) By the 1950s, the Blackhawks were a fully integrated CIA unit, with a cover as an air courier service. New recruits Paco Herrera and Grover Baines also joined in 1955.
In 1963, the Blackhawks became entangled in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Their former colleague, Blanc-Dumont was working for the CIA and uncovered information implicating U.S. government officials of wanting to escalate involvement in the Vietnam war. This ran counter to the President's feelings, and his enemies killed Blanc-Dumont before he could return to Washington D.C. His killer, code named "Hardwire," left a calling card for the Blackhawks to lure them to Dallas. There, they fail to stop JFK's assassination and its cover-up.
After years of investigation, in 1968, Olaf uncovered Hardwire's identity in Saigon. His name was Stephen Weir, and Janos had evidently killed his parents in the war. Olaf went missing-in-action when Hardwire bombed the embassy; his body was shown floating in a river and it was never recovered. Back in the states, Natalie Reed was again recruited to help Janos watch over Robert Kennedy (she had taken the alias Constance Darabont). She bore witness to RFK's assassination, but was helpless to prevent it. Jan finally had his revenge in 1975, during last days of the Vietnam War. A secret informant revealed Hardwire's location, and the Jan killed him in battle. (Blackhawk Special #1) Jan was still around during the "Silver Age," when he participated in a short-lived "Seven Soldiers of Victory." (The Silver Age: Showcase)
In 1980, Weng Chan became the CEO of the organization's latest incarnation, Blackhawk Express. This charter service specialized in dangerous cargo and boasted all-female flight crews. Chan answered to a secret Board of Directors (whose members may included some of the original surviving Blackhawks). In one of thier first recorded missions, Chan, R&D man Clay Kendall, and pilot Susan Sullivan were shot down over the country of Sumango by Colonel Diaz. Green Lantern, Superman and Black Canary were called in to rescue them. (Action #635) At a social function, Chan also met Katar Hol, the Hawkman of Thanagar. Katar helped Blackhawk Express when the Killer Shark (Bunther Haifisch) planted a bomb on a plane with sensitive cargo. (The plane used in this story was a Gates Lear-Jet 55C; Hawkworld v.2 #11-12.) Chan's grandson, Nelson Chan also joined B.E. as a mechanic.
Eventually, Blackhawk Island and the Blackhawk Express service were acquired by D.E.O., another U.S. agency which investigates metahuman affairs. The DEO's Director Bones tricked the JSA into driving Kobra from the island. Though the mission resulted in serious damages, the island was salvaged. (JSA #11-12) During the Imperiex War, an all-new Blackhawk fleet was created by combining Brainiac 13 technology with Ferris Aircraft designs. These new warbirds can travel into space.
When Zinda Blake emerged from the 1950s in modern time, she joined Buck Wargo's monster hunters for a time. (Guy Gardner: Warrior #24). Eventually she grew lonely as, according to her, she was the last living original Blackhawk. Later, she was contaced by Oracle and was invited to join the Birds of Prey as their pilot. Craving the adventure, she agreed, leaving the Blackhawk organization (and her share in it). She took with her but one thing: a brand new state-of-the-art plane to courier the Birds to their cases' destinations. (Birds of Prey #75) This was the first official declaration that the other original Blackhawks were dead.
No account has been made of the surviving Blackhawks' last days. Knowing the extent of Jan's sexual exploits, it is quite possible that he fathered children. The fate of Natalie and Hendrickson's son is unknown.
The Blackhawk operation continues to operate in covert and overt capacities for the United States military and espionage operations.
Blackhawk was one of the properties purchased by DC Comics from Quality Comics in 1956. In pre-Crisis continuity, none of the core members ever died. But Howard Chaykin's 1988 mini-series established a new, post-Crisis continuity for the Blackhawks. Though his version drastically changed the personality of Blackhawk himself, it did return the team to it's multinational roots. As the U.S. entered the war, some of the Blackhawk characters did not appear "sympathetic" enough to the publisher, Quality Comics. For more on this, read the letter column of Blackhawk Annual #1 (1989). The era of Blackhawk history which is most suspect in current continuity is the 1970s revival (which began in Blackhawk #244, Feb. 1976). Many would assert that Blackhawk #244-250 are no longer in continuity. Another change: Chan's pre-Crisis first name was changed from "Wu" to "Weng," and his nickname, "Chop-Chop" is clearly represented as pejorative.
The pre-Crisis gang also included Kazimierc "Zeg" Zegota-Januszajtis, Boris Zinoviev, Ian Holcomb-Baker (all of whom died pre-Pearl Harbor); Lt. Theodore R. Gaynor (Blackhawk #266); and Blackie the Hawk (Blackhawk #75).
Their earliest aircraft were based on Grumman F5F Skyrockets & Lockheed P-38s, later Douglas D558-1 & Lockheed XF-90s. See link below for more on their aircraft.
Military
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Military Comics, 43 issues (1940-45)
Blackhawk v.1, issues #9-273 (took over numbering of Uncle Sam; 1944-68,
1976-77, 1982-84)
Blackhawk v.2, 3-issue mini-series (1988)
Blackhawk v.3, 16 issues (1989-90)
Action
Comics Weekly #601-608, 615-622, 628-635 • All-Star
Squadron #48-49 • Blackhawk Special #1 (1992) • Hawkworld v.2
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Squad v.1 #64
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Created by Robert Loring Fleming and James W. Fry
The group who would become the Blasters began as human test subjects for the alien Dominion invaders. The Dominion's experiment sought to discover how prevalent the "metagene" was in the human genome. To this end, they lined up 50 humans and initated their "blaster field." To their horror, a staggering six humans survived the carnage by developing latent metahuman powers. (Invasion! #1) Among them were:
When the alien invaders were driven from Earth and their captives freed, the Blasters joined with Earth's heroes and the Omega Men to reverse the effects of the Dominators' gene bomb. (Invasion! #3) Following this, they hung around with the Omega Men and captured the ship of the cat-woman named Churljenkins. Soon the Blasters returned to Earth. The the Omega Men remained stranded for a month to try and fix the ship so they too could return home. Later (and unwittingly) Snapper teleported back to Churl's ship and freed her from the Omega Men. The two of them reclaimed her ship intended to return Churl to home. They discovered, however, that her home planet had been destroyed to make way for a spaceway to Earth. It seemed that some enterprising Spider Guild beings had established a black market for arms on Earth. The two decided to put an end to it, and returned to Earth to gather the other Blasters.
In truth, most of the Blasters were grateful to be called back into action. Most of them had found it difficult readjusting to their lives after manifesting their metagenes. They took the Spider Guild head-on and also alerted the Justice League to the existence of their "Weapons Depot." Afterwards, all of the Blasters decided to remain with Churljenkins and tour space. (Blasters Special #1)
After wandering in space, the Blasters began to question the wisdom of their decision. Just when they were about to disband and return to Earth, they received a distress call from Valor's digital assistant, Babbage. Valor had been wrongly imprisoned by Kanjar Ru in Starlag II. When they broke into Starlag, they unintentionally released the Unimaginable. The Unimaginable set forces in motion which threatend to destroy Starlag. The Blasters were trapped as the prison began crumbling. Their fate following this incident remains a mystery. (Valor #5-8)
At some point, the Snapper was separated from his teammates. He did not know if they were dead or alive and expressed some guilt over their unknown fate. While searching for them, he was captured by some Khunds, who cut off his hands. (Hourman #20) He was rescued by the L.E.G.I.O.N., but knew nothing about the fate of the Blasters. Vril Dox gave Snapper new hands — and lost the ability to teleport — and was returned to earth. (Hourman #20-21)
The Blasters were a pet
project of Robert Loring Fleming. They had been slated for their own series,
but editorial reigns changed hands, Fleming lost interest, and other creators
became unavailable. The L.E.G.I.O.N. was another
major team to spring from Invasion!. Fleming brought the Blasters in
as guests when assumed writing the Valor series, but again left them
in limbo, as the Zero Hour plans for the Legion soon overshadowed the book.
Snapper: Brave & Bold #28. Others: Invasion! #1. As
team: Invasion! #3
Blasters
Special #1 • Hourman #20-?? • Invasion! #1,
3 • Valor #5-8
The Blood Pack is one of the shortest-lived and strangest teams to ever appear in the DCU. Its members were all part of the "New Bloods," who recieved their powers from spinal-fluid-sucking aliens (no, really). The alien parasites could disguise themselves as humans and preyed upon dozens of humans. After an attack, the parasite would discharge the spinal fluid into a large vat where a monster called the Taker was waiting to be fed. When the Taker was sufficiently fed, it would then consume his own parasites and emerge to ravage an entire planet and strip it of all of its raw minerals. This cycle of death could then commence anew on another world.
The Blood Pack was a group of New Bloods called together by a group of "producers" called the Quorum to make a behind-the-scenes super-hero documentary. In truth, the Quorum sought to use the New Bloods for world domination.
Though there is no evidence, it has been speculated that the Pack's mystery member, Loria, was created and planted by the Quorum as a spy. She Could turn into a being of solid metal — impervious and incredibly strong. She was soon killed by one of the armored "Sweepers" (security guards) when she tried to leave the Blood Pack. (Blood Pack #3) The Quorum then secretly used her body as a host for DNA from the Taker (who'd been destroyed in Bloodbath #2). The resulting creature had features of both Loria and the Taker. However, Loria's mind remained locked inside thise body, which she could not control. She contacted the Blood Pack via their computer system and telepathy, and ultimately sacrificed her remaining being to reveal the Quorum's evil intentions to the world. (Blood Pack #4)
Most of the Blood Pack (Ballistic, Geist, Mongrel, Nightblade and Razorsharp) were killed during Earth's heroes' battle with Superboy Prime and the Society. (Infinite Crisis #7) Jade also died in space during this Crisis. (Rann/Thanagar War Special)
As if that weren't bad enough, two more New Bloods fell prey to a villain called the Organ Thief. He harvested Argus' eyes and Loose Cannon's heart (though he still lived). (JSA Classified #19)
In 1993, Skybox produced
a series of horrible trading
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Team: Showcase
'94 #12 (all members joined here)
Guy
Gardner: Warrior #29 • Showcase '95 #1-2 • Superboy #16 • Young
Justice #8
Anima, 15 issue (1994-95)
Argus, 6 issues (1995)
Bloodbath, 2 issues (1993)
Blood Pack, 4-issue mini-series (1995)
Gunfire, 13 issues, (1994-95)
Hitman, series, 1996 - present
Loose Cannon, 4-issue mini-series (1995)
The Psyba-Rats, 3-issue mini-series (1995)
Showcase '94, 12 issues, (1994). Gunfire in issues #1-2; Razorsharp
and Psyba-Rats in #3-4; Loose Cannon in #5; Sparx in #6; Terrorsmith in #7;
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adapted from Who's Who Update '88 #1
Dr. Pytor Orloff, a scientist at the Puleski Institute in Russia, attempted to confer the power of super-speed on his laboratory subjects, using steroids and electrode implants in addition to genetic splicing. Two of the subjects, Boleslaw Uminski and Gregor Gregorovich, could reach 700 mph; the third, a woman known only as Christina, could exceed the sound barrier. Though all three were fast, they were made abnormally strong, emotionally unstable and particularly dull-witted due to the nature of the experiments.
Taking the name Blue Trinity, the three speedsters became super-powered agents of the Soviet Army, coming into conflict with Flash and Red Trinity when they attempted to remove Dr. Orloff from Russia and bring him to America, where he might save the life of Speed McGee. Though they actually followed Flash and his companions as far as Flash's home in New York, they were eventually beaten back by Red Trinity and returned to Russia.
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Original: Doom
Patrol v.1 #86. Second team: New Teen
Titans v.1 #14. Society of Sin: New Titans
Annual #6
Brave & the
Bold #65 • Doom Patrol v.1 #86, 87, 90, 93, 96, 97, 101,
104, 107-112, 118-119, 121 • Doom Patrol v.3 #14 • New
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