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Captain Boomerang
Personal Info:
Real Name: George "Digger" Harkness
Also Known As:
Place Of Birth: Kurrumburra, Australia
First Appearance: Flash Vol.1 117
Died: Identity Crisis 5
Resurrected: Blackest Night Flash 2
Known Associates:
Group Affiliation: Black Lantern Corps, Former member of the Rogues, Secret Society of Super Villains, Suicide Squad
Base Of Operations: Central City, Missouri
Grudges: All sentient life
Creators: John Broome and Carmine Infantino
Gallery: Click

Powers:

Captain Boomerang is an expert at throwing boomerangs.

Black Power Ring: The Black Lantern Rings are capable of wielding the black energy outside of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum. When Black power rings choose wearers, they present themselves to the deceased without a charge. The rings (which constantly ask for "flesh") are recharged by killing living beings and removing their hearts; each heart restores .01 percent power to every ring in the Corps. Black Lanterns are also able to read the emotions of the living as a coloured aura that correlates to the emotional spectrum (red for rage, violet for love, etc.). Black Lantern Rings will regenerate a corpse each time it is damaged, they can create constructs, but this ability is rarely used and they allow flight.

Origins:

Australian born George Harkness is the illegitimate son of an American toy-maker W.W. Wiggins. He was a troubled teenager always getting into scrapes with the law. His presumed father always resented him because of his mother's affair with Wiggins, and after one of George's capers led to a particularly nasty family fight, his mother sent him to the United States, arranging with Wiggins to give him a job in Central City. "Captain Boomerang" was created as a gimmick to create interest in boomerangs.

One day, after a particularly lousy performance, Boomerang tried to pick someone's pocket. He was spotted by the Flash, but Digger threw a boomerang at him and flattened him. Realizing what he could do, he began his criminal career as Captain Boomerang.

Captain Boomerang was a member of the Flashes rouges gallery until he was tricked into attacking Tim Drake's father Jack but he was shot and killed during the assassination. He was resurrected by a Black Lantern Power ring.

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