Boomerang

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Real Name

Frederick Myers ^[1]

Current Alias

Boomerang

Aliases

Fred Slade; Outback^[2]

Relatives

Unidentified wife, unidentified parents, William Baker (Sandman, cousin-in-law)

Affiliation

Sinister Six, formerly Thunderbolts, Heavy Hitters, Masters of Evil, Sinister Syndicate; Former employee of the Secret Empire; ally of Viper and Silver Samurai; employee of the Kingpin, Sinister Twelve, Assassin Guild

Base Of Operations

Mobile

Status

Alignment

Bad

Identity

Secret Identity

Citizenship

American, Australian

Marital Status

Married

Occupation

Professional criminal, assassin; former trail guide, baseball pitcher

Education

High school graduate

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

5' 11"

Weight

175 lbs (80 kg)

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Brown

Origin

Origin

A former baseball player, Fred Myers became a subversive criminal after being suspended from the game.

Universe

Earth-616

Place of Birth

Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

Created by

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

First appearance

Tales to Astonish #81
(July, 1966)

HistoryEdit

Fred Myers was born in Australia but moved to America when he was a small child. In America, his great love was baseball and he developed an extraordinary pitching arm. He became a professional baseball player in the minor leagues after graduating high school, and a few years later entered the major leagues. Within a year he was suspended for accepting bribes. Embittered, he was eventually contracted by the subversive criminal organization, the Secret Empire, and offered employment. They designed special weaponry for him to exploit his pitching ability and he became their special operative, code-named Boomerang. When the Secret Empire crumbled, Boomerang went to Australia to hide out and recuperate. There he incessantly practiced the art of throwing and decided to become a freelance assassin. Obtaining a new arsenal of weapons designed and financed by underworld financier Justin Hammer, Boomerang came back to America to pursue his criminal ambitions.

Boomerang later joined the supervillain team the Sinister Syndicate. The team clashed with the hero Spider-Man and the mercenary Silver Sable when they were hired by the villain Jack O'Lantern, who the pair were hunting at the time. Although Boomerang was easily overpowered by Silver Sable, the Syndicate defeated the duo and were about to finish them off when they were interrupted by the reformed villain Sandman, who helped the pair defeat the Syndicate. The Syndicate were seldom seen together afterwards, and eventually disbanded.

After the events of the Civil War, Fred joined the Initiative and became a superhero in the service of the law with the alias of "Outback". He was outed as a criminal and punched in the face on TV by Prodigy. He next showed up being recruited by the Assassins Guild during their conflict with X-Force.

He recently assembled his own Sinister Six line-up, but they were defeated by the Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius).

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Abilities

Strength level

Boomerang possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise.

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

• Costume: Boomerang's costume contains a wide variety of hidden pockets and pouches for his smaller, specialized boomerangs, in addition to attachments for securing the seven larger primary boomerangs.
  
  • Light body armor: Boomerangs costume acts as light body armor.
    
  • Boot Jets: Boomerang's costume is equipped with boot jets which are mentally commanded using cybernetic circuitry built into the cowl. These are capable of two hours of flight at 30 mph before needing to be refueled, and generate enough thrust to support Boomerang's own weight plus and additional 100 lbs. The boot jets can be used as offensive weapons when fired at close range.
    

• Specialized Boomerangs: Boomerang's primary weapons are the boomerangs, which he wears on his uniform. There are seven boomerangs attached in plain sight, each of which is rigged with special gimmicks.
  • Shatterangs - These detonate with a force equivalent to twenty hand grenades.
  • Gasarangs - These release highly concentrated tear gas upon impact.
  • Razorangs - These razor-edged boomerangs are capable of slicing through steel.
  • Screamerangs - These generate high-intensity sonic waves as they fly through the air.
  • Bladarangs - These whirling boomerangs cut like buzz-saw blades.
  • Gravityrangs - These create a local gravity field around their target.
  • Reflexerangs - These are solid-weighted boomerangs

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