Post by Z451 on Dec 14, 2013 17:50:36 GMT
Captain Boomerang
The illegitimate son of an American toymaker, W.W. Wiggins, and an Australian woman, Betty Harkness, George Harkness was raised in poverty in the small town of Kurrumburra, Australia.
His stepfather, Ian, hated the boy and made his life miserable.
In school one day, George crafted a boomerang.
He discovered he had great skill with the aboriginal weapon and often used it for mischief with his best friend, Mick Wentworth.
He further honed his skills while spending some time hiding from the law in the Australian bush.
When George was eighteen, he and Mick robbed a general store and were able to make their escape with the aid of George's boomerang.
However, this incident caused George's stepfather to kick him out of the house.
His mother gave him a plane ticket to Central City and told him to get in touch with Wiggins.
Wiggins had been searching for a spokesman for his company's latest product, a toy boomerang.
Under the alias "George Green", Harkness auditioned for and got the job.
Wiggins outfitted him with a costume and gave him the name "Captain Boomerang."
Harkness, however, had other plans for his new alter ego.
He began a string of jewelry thefts.
This alerted the attention of the Flash, and the Scarlet Speedster caught him in the act during one of his heists.
However, Captain Boomerang fooled the speedster by claiming that he was being impersonated.
He even brought the Flash to his apartment and introduced him to actors posing as his parents, stating that they would starve if he was convicted of the robberies and lost his job as Wiggins's spokesman.
The next time that Boomerang encountered the Flash, he knocked him out with one of his boomerangs and tied the unconscious speedster to his "Rocket Boomerang", which he sent hurtling high up into the Earth's atmosphere.
However, on the descent back to ground, the Flash released himself and captured the villain.
Once, he planted special getaway boomerangs in every jail within one hundred miles of Central City, where they would remain invisible until he concentrated his brain waves to materialize them.
One year later, he had the chance to use one of them.
He was being transported to the state pen, but an anonymous phone call, which had actually been made by Boomerang's father, Aussie Green, said that there was a bomb in the patrol wagon that he was being transported in.
The police evacuated the wagon and put Captain Boomerang into temporary custody at the police station.
However, he used one of his getaway boomerangs to escape.
As he escaped, he hurled a boomerang at Barry Allen for rubbing him the wrong way (a little earlier, the scientist had told one of the police officers not to take off the villain's straightjacket).
Barry quickly changed into the Flash, and tried to apprehend Boomerang by creating air gusts, pushing the villain in front of him.
However, the Captain contorted his body into the shape of a boomerang, which caused him to hurtle back towards the Flash, knocking him down.
All of this had been recorded by Boomerang's father and put into a scrapbook entitled Flash -- This is your Death!
Boomerang set Flash up in a machine, that sent the hero hurtling like a boomerang into another dimension, filled with terrible monsters.
However, Flash stayed in the shape of a boomerang, knowing that he would be returned to his sender.
Foiled, Boomerang and his father tried to get away with a special flying boomerang, but Flash created a waterspout as they flew over a lake, bringing them back down, where Flash could take them to the police headquarters.
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His stepfather, Ian, hated the boy and made his life miserable.
In school one day, George crafted a boomerang.
He discovered he had great skill with the aboriginal weapon and often used it for mischief with his best friend, Mick Wentworth.
He further honed his skills while spending some time hiding from the law in the Australian bush.
When George was eighteen, he and Mick robbed a general store and were able to make their escape with the aid of George's boomerang.
However, this incident caused George's stepfather to kick him out of the house.
His mother gave him a plane ticket to Central City and told him to get in touch with Wiggins.
Wiggins had been searching for a spokesman for his company's latest product, a toy boomerang.
Under the alias "George Green", Harkness auditioned for and got the job.
Wiggins outfitted him with a costume and gave him the name "Captain Boomerang."
Harkness, however, had other plans for his new alter ego.
He began a string of jewelry thefts.
This alerted the attention of the Flash, and the Scarlet Speedster caught him in the act during one of his heists.
However, Captain Boomerang fooled the speedster by claiming that he was being impersonated.
He even brought the Flash to his apartment and introduced him to actors posing as his parents, stating that they would starve if he was convicted of the robberies and lost his job as Wiggins's spokesman.
The next time that Boomerang encountered the Flash, he knocked him out with one of his boomerangs and tied the unconscious speedster to his "Rocket Boomerang", which he sent hurtling high up into the Earth's atmosphere.
However, on the descent back to ground, the Flash released himself and captured the villain.
Once, he planted special getaway boomerangs in every jail within one hundred miles of Central City, where they would remain invisible until he concentrated his brain waves to materialize them.
One year later, he had the chance to use one of them.
He was being transported to the state pen, but an anonymous phone call, which had actually been made by Boomerang's father, Aussie Green, said that there was a bomb in the patrol wagon that he was being transported in.
The police evacuated the wagon and put Captain Boomerang into temporary custody at the police station.
However, he used one of his getaway boomerangs to escape.
As he escaped, he hurled a boomerang at Barry Allen for rubbing him the wrong way (a little earlier, the scientist had told one of the police officers not to take off the villain's straightjacket).
Barry quickly changed into the Flash, and tried to apprehend Boomerang by creating air gusts, pushing the villain in front of him.
However, the Captain contorted his body into the shape of a boomerang, which caused him to hurtle back towards the Flash, knocking him down.
All of this had been recorded by Boomerang's father and put into a scrapbook entitled Flash -- This is your Death!
Boomerang set Flash up in a machine, that sent the hero hurtling like a boomerang into another dimension, filled with terrible monsters.
However, Flash stayed in the shape of a boomerang, knowing that he would be returned to his sender.
Foiled, Boomerang and his father tried to get away with a special flying boomerang, but Flash created a waterspout as they flew over a lake, bringing them back down, where Flash could take them to the police headquarters.
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Angel Fire
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