In 1990, Captain Boomerang’s origin was retooled and updated. Escaping, he made quick work of Captain Boomerang.īoomerang came back time and again to bedevil the Flash and eventually became a part of the Suicide Squad. Fortunately, Flash was able to generate sufficient friction to break his ropes. If that didn’t kill the Scarlet Speedster, the boomerang’s subsequent plunge into the ocean would. Using a powerful launching device, he hurled Flash into the atmosphere. The villain had a stash of special trick boomerang, including a gigantic one, to which he tied the Flash to. Later, Boomerang was able to knock the Flash unconscious. He even hired some other crooks to pretend to be his lovable mother and father, who convinced Flash of Digger’s innocence. He claimed that someone else was impersonating him to commit these crimes and was hurting his good name with their activities. When the Flash caught up with him, Digger even had a story to throw him off his track. Digger was given the job with the toy company, who also supplied him with a snazzy new set of threads and the name Captain Boomerang.ĭigger was a hit with the public as the boomerang promoter, but he really cleaned up moonlighting as a boomerang-throwing criminal. To promote the product, he decided to find an expert to show people just what can be done with a boomerang.Īs luck would have it, petty criminal George “Digger” Harkness, an Australian newly arrived in America, had just been thinking about incorporating boomerangs into his crooked activities. Wiggins wanted to make the boomerang into the next big children’s toy fad.

The answer goes back to 1960’s Marvel Comic’s Universe where toy tycoon W.W. He’s given the Flash a run for the money for decades, but just how did he come to be? This villain from down under can get a lot done with various types of boomerangs. We have chosen primarily to follow the storyline which unfolded in 1960's Flash #117 and was expanded upon in 1990’s Suicide Squad #-2005’s Identity Crisis #4-6. Welcome to and today we will explore the comic book origin of Captain Boomerang.Īs with most comic book characters, there are often re-imaginations and different versions to a character’s past. My interpretation of him borrows from both screen and comics – he has a beanie and long coat and the film-style boomerangs, but also wears a long coat and scarf – and borrowing from my own body shape is not necessarily a classically superheroic build.What goes around comes around – as this supervillain certainly knows. Unlike his Marvel counterpart he hasn’t used gimmick boomerangs in any way, but for a number of years was used as comic relief in his appearances. As his name more than suggests, his favoured weapons are sharpened boomerangs. In all his incarnations he’s been a blowhard and scoundrel rather than any kind of top tier world-threatening villain, but he has tangled at one point or another with most of the heroes of the DC universe. Ah, currently one of my favourite cosplays, the not-so-good Captain became a more mainstream character with the film release of Suicide Squad, though he had long been known to me as part of the Flash’s Rogues, and indeed of the comicbook Suicide Squad since at least the nineties.

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