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T HE O UTSIDERS SEE OPPOSITE PAGE HE HE UTSIDERS S OUBRIQUET T O DC C O VERMASTER THE LIVE UP TO THEIR NAME by flatly refusing to OF AMERICA (1st series) #233 FIRST APPEARANCE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #200 (July 1983) OMICS (December 1984) STATUS Villain REAL NAME None STATUS Hero team BASE Brooklyn, New York City work within the expected constraints of international law and OCCUPATION Assassin BASE Outer space CURRENT MEMBERS AND POWERS propriety.The current version of the team is committed to HEIGHT 8ft WEIGHT 350 lbs EYES HAIR None (leader) Expert acrobat and combatant. taking proactive action—squashing meta-human and alien SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Exact abilities have not yet been documented Arsenal Superior archer and weapons specialist. threats before they even have the chance to become threats! E

but he clearly possesses advanced technology. Grace Superstrength. NCYCLOPEDIA LACK IGHTNING Can increase her body’s density to become invulnerable. The original Outsiders included B L , Android with the powers of flight, projection, and ,,HALO, and the Markovian noble An alien once latched on to another mountainous the ability to emit energy from eyes and hands. GEO-FORCE. Based in City and backed financially by alien.The combined being took the name Overmaster Jade Wields energy to create hard-light constructs. , the hero team were an outgrowth of ’s and journeyed through space, interfering with sentient Shift Fully grown copy of Metamorpho with the power to shapeshift frustration with the political constraints under which the worlds.When this being arrived on Earth, it saw a and transmute the elements in his body. planet filled with super heroes and recognized a JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA were forced to operate. new way to test the populace. Overmaster DIRECT ACTION recruited six humans and formed the .The When Baron Bedlam kidnapped (see FOX,LUCIUS) group challenged the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF in Markovia, the Justice League of America refused to interfere for fear of AMERICA to battle, humanity’s fate at stake.The upsetting a nation’s internal politics. Batman quit the JLA in disgust and JLA, aided by , prevailed. He returned for formed his Outsiders to handle the Markovia incident and similar, man’s “Judgment Day” and was opposed by the unorthodox missions. Geo-Force fought with Batman over the Dark Knight’s JLA, its allies, and a new recruit, tendency to withhold information from team members. Batman quit, and AMAZING MAN II.The villain and his Geo-Force led the team, which relocated to Los Angeles. During this period new, expanded Cadre were the Outsiders became agents of the Markovian government. Later additions defeated. Overmaster’s to the roster included the airstream- current whereabouts GEO-FORCE The manipulating WINDFALL and the are unknown. RG Outsiders’ greatest leader. armored ATOMIC KNIGHT. O RPHEUS O UTLAW Geo-Force eventually disbanded this team. FIRST APPEARANCE BATMAN: ORPHEUS RISING #1 (October 2001) FIRST APPEARANCE ALL-STAR WESTERN #2 (November 1970) STATUS Hero REAL NAME Gavin King STATUS Hero (deceased) REAL NAME Rick Wilson OCCUPATION ; former dancer BASE OCCUPATION Ranger BASE Texas HEIGHT 6ft 2in WEIGHT 180 lbs EYES Brown HAIR Black HEIGHT 6ft 1in WEIGHT 189 lbs EYES HAIR Brown SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Formidable fighter; stealth-circuitry allows SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Was an expert marksman and horseman; costume to blend into shadows; employs high-tech weapons. often accompanied by a trained hawk he once nursed back to health. 3 While other kids were shooting hoops or roaming Rick Wilson’s father Sam was a Texas ranger who enforced NEW BLOOD Grace and Thunder Gotham City’s mean streets and getting into trouble, the law throughout the Old West.When Rick turned 18, O WLWOMAN are two brash young additions, teenager Gavin King turned his attentions to martial arts he set out for parts unknown.When Sam Wilson was lending their muscle to battle 6 and dancing.After finishing his schooling, Gavin joined a called in to investigate a daring stagecoach robbery, he FIRST APPEARANCE #7 (October 1977) threats like . professional dance troupe and traveled the world, where he discovered that Rick was one of the outlaw culprits. Sam STATUS Hero REAL NAME Wenonah Littlebird 1 witnessed more of the same poverty and inequality that declared that he no longer had a son. Sam relentlessly OCCUPATION Jeweler; adventurer BASE London; the Dome Reunited in Markovia, 2 divided races and inevitably led to violence. Determined pursued his son as he rode with infamous outlaws, such as HEIGHT 5ft 5in WEIGHT 125 lbs EYES Brown HAIR Black the Outsiders became to do something about these injustices, Gavin joined a the Dix Gang,“King” Coffin,” and “Gunpowder” Grimes. SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Tribal powers give her superhuman speed, fugitives framed for the shadowy secret organization which provided him with the What no one realized was that the Wilsons were in the power of flight, tracking ability, sight in total darkness, and murder of the country’s 5 training and equipment he needed to combat ignorance cahoots. Rick was infiltrating outlaw gangs and helping superhuman endurance; her genetically engineered claws can cut monarch (correct?), Queen and indifference.As the costumed Orpheus, Gavin took Sam Wilson to catch them dead or alive.After defeating through . Ilona.They cleared their 4 the fight back to Gotham, where he helped the city’s self- the dynamite-wielding names but split into two squads: one led by Geo-Force appointed , BATMAN, expose a cabal of corrupt Grimes, the Wilsons’ ruse and including KATANA and the warsuited ; cops fomenting bloodshed between gangs and gun dealers. was revealed. Sam and A Kiowa Indian from Wyoming, the other led by the Kryptonian and Though initially wary of Orpheus, the Dark Knight Rick served with the Wenonah Littlebird learned including LOOKER,HALO, Faust (see FAUST,FELIX), and the became convinced of the young hero’s good intentions Texas Rangers for the how to channel the spiritual bear-creature Wylde.The two teams united and the Outsiders after Orpheus argued that Gotham could certainly use rest of their days. SB power of her entire tribe remained active through the War (see Great Battles, more heroes of color to act as during a great ceremony called pp. 320–1), their last member being DOCTOR LIGHT II. relevant role models to the city’s the K’Ado. Called “Owlwoman” Former Titan ARSENAL founded the current incarnation of minority populations. Later, by her mother,Wenonah battled the Outsiders, with funding from the Optitron corporation, Orpheus teamed with the Dark small time criminals and low- which paid for an underground HQ and a 7 Knight’s allies NIGHTWING and level mystical threats in the command hovercraft, the Pequod.Arsenal’s . Midwest, eventually becoming recruits included old hands NIGHTWING, Batman recently recruited the American representative of METAMORPHO, and JADE, as Orpheus to team with ONYX DOCTOR MIST’s international well as newcomers GRACE, and infiltrate Gotham City’s team of heroes, the GLOBAL THUNDER, and INDIGO.The STORYLINES underworld to help prevent GUARDIANS. team has survived attacks • BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #1 (AUGUST 1983): The a gang war. SB Owlwoman fell in love with from both GORILLA GRODD classic Outsiders team makes its debut while fellow Guardian JACK O’LANTERN. Her and , as well as the meddling in foreign affairs. powers were enhanced when she was news that their • OUTSIDERS (2ND SERIES) #1 (NOVEMBER1985): Without FAST ON THE DRAW captured by the first and subjected to “Metamorpho” is a growth of Batman, the Outsiders move to California. Rick Wilson masqueraded as genetic experiments.After deposing terrorist dictator tissue from the original hero • OUTSIDERS (3RD SERIES) #1 (JUNE 2003): Nightwing an Outlaw to bring in SUMAAN HARJAVTI from his rule in Bialya in the Middle that has gained sentience and and Arsenal, ex-, form a new team. desperados—dead or alive! East, Jack O’Lantern died, and Owlwoman began an angry its own identity. DW campaign to end terrorism around the world. PJ