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| Real Name: |
| William Hand |
| Place Of Birth: |
| Coast City |
| First Appearance: |
| Green Lantern Vol.2 29 |
| Group Affiliation: |
| None |
| Base Of Operations: |
| Coast City |
| Grudges: |
| Green Lantern |
| Creators: |
| Gallery: |
| Black Hand | (1964) |
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| Powers: |
| Black Hand is a brilliant criminal strategist who used to use a power rod. Recently he has been altered by the alien Gremlins to absorb life forces. |
| Energy Absorption: Black hand is able to absorb the life forces of beings around him and use the energy to rebuild his body. |
| Power Rod: Black Hand has a power rod that can absorb the emerald energy of a power ring and throw it back at the Green Lantern. |
| Origins: |
| William Hand was one of the renowned Hand family of Coastville, a suburb of Coast City, California. His was a successful family, and in time William came to loath them. He set out to be different from his brothers by starting on a life of crime. |
| His criminal career was methodical, everything William Hand learned was written in a book. Through the years, he came up with every answer to every situation a criminal could get into. The knowledge served him well, with his photographic memory of the book he managed to escape the police on more than one occasion. As his career progressed, Hand designed a costume and named himself "Black Hand", an inside joke as he was the "black sheep" of the Hand family. |
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