Frederick Myers (Earth-616)

Boomerang
Name	Frederick Myers
Current Alias	Boomerang
Aliases	Fred Slade; Outback
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Sinister Six, formerly Hood's gang, Thunderbolts, Heavy Hitters (Nevada Initiative), Masters of Evil, Sinister Syndicate; Former employee of the Secret Empire; ally of Viper and Silver Samurai; employee of the Kingpin, Sinister Twelve, Assassins Guild, RAID, Defenders (Villains)
Relatives	Unidentified wife, unidentified parents, William Baker (Cousin-in-law)
Marital Status	Married
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5′11″ (1.8 m)
Weight	175 lbs (79.38 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Brown
Origin and Living Status
Origin	A former baseball player, Fred Myers became a subversive criminal after being suspended from the game.
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American, Australian
Occupation	Professional criminal, assassin; former trail guide, baseball pitcher
Education	High school graduate
Base of Operations	Mobile
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
First	Tales to Astonish #81 (April, 1966)
First	Tales to Astonish #81 (April, 1966)

History

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2nd uniform

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.

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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. Boomerang did also his solo criminal operations in San Diego, where he also was defeated by Spider-man .

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, where he was seemingly killed by Archangel.

Despite that, he appeared later at the Club with No Name in Manhattan. Having previously been critically injured by Spider-Man, he was on crutches at the time, Gambit stealing one of his boomerangs to frame Joelle for stealing from the assembled villains.

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

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

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Abilities

Boomerang is an expert pitcher whose accuracy has few rivals.

Paraphernalia

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 an 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

See Also

• 204 appearance(s) of Frederick Myers (Earth-616)
• 14 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Frederick Myers (Earth-616)
• 18 minor appearance(s) of Frederick Myers (Earth-616)
• 17 mention(s) of Frederick Myers (Earth-616)
• 10 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Frederick Myers (Earth-616)
• 164 image(s) of Frederick Myers (Earth-616)
• 8 quotation(s) by or about Frederick Myers (Earth-616)
• 1 victim(s) killed by Frederick Myers (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Profile at Spiderfan.org

References

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