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For the mainstream Outsiders team, see Outsiders (comics)
The Outsiders 
The Outsiders from 1st Issue Special #10,
artist Jerry GrandenettiPublication information Publisher DC Comics First appearance 1st Issue Special #10
(January 1976)Created by Joe Simon (writer)
Jerry Grandenetti (artist)In-story information Member(s) Amazing Ronnie
Billy
Doc Scary
Hairy Larry
Lizard Johnny
Mighty MaryThe Outsiders are a fictional group of outcasts, comic book characters published by DC Comics. They debuted in 1st Issue Special #10, (January 1976), and were created by Joe Simon and Jerry Grandenetti.
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Publication history
1st Issue Special #10, artist Jerry Grandenetti
The outsiders are a close knit group of humans with terrifying teratological deformities, very few of which grant any beneficial superhuman abilities. The team is first seen during the rescue of a mutant boy named Billy from a club wielding xenophobic mob; after an overwhelming show of force, the Outsiders are able to rescue Billy. Back at their headquarters and engaging in a bit of metacommentary, the team addresses its origin story directly to the Reader, as if the Outsiders are somehow aware of the Fourth Wall.
Lizard Johnny was found at sea during a storm by a fisherman named Ahab, Doctor Goodie saves Johnny from death at the hands of a colleague and raises the infant humanoid himself. Billy's father a poor tailor from the town of Lynville was murdered by burglars, his tailor's shop was burned down while the criminals and terrified citizens attempt to kill Billy who later jumps into a fountain in order to douse his burning clothes. This incident dovetails with Billy's rescue by the Outsiders at the start of the story.
Doctor Goodie was a NASA technician on a manned probe to the planet Venus, the probe crashes on the planet and Doctor Goodie is rescued by Alien surgeons who repair his broken body transforming him into a cyborg, but because the aliens had no idea what a terran looked like, they gave him alien features similar to their own, alien features which terrify humans. Later Doctor Goodie reveals that he has created elaborate prosthetic makeup which allows him to pass as a normal human doctor at the Ronkite Medical Complex. Deep below the medical complex is the hidden hideout of the Outsiders.
The origins of the three remaining Outsiders were never told. At the end of the issue team members are seen wearing their battle uniforms, black uniforms with a red stylized "O" on the front and their names in red on the back.[1]
Current status
The original Outsiders re-appear in Superman #692 (November 2009) as detainees of Department 7734 in Project M.
Membership
- Amazing Ronnie - Ronnie is a four armed cyclopean man with acrobatic combat skills.
- Billy - Billy's hypercephalic skull appears to confer limited invulnerability.
- Doc Scary - Formerly Doctor Goodie, Doc Scary was remade as a hideous cyborg by extraterrestrial surgeons in order to save his life.[2]
- Hairy Larry - Larry is a cybernetic centauroid, half man and half automobile and the team's primary source of transportion.
- Lizard Johnny - Johnny is a lizardlike humanoid possibly of Atlantean origin, with limited regenerative abilities.
- Mighty Mary - Mary has scaled and flippered arms and legs, and possesses limited superhuman strength. The only female member, Mary, unlike the others, appears "normal" from the neck up and has a reasonably attractive face and hair.
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Categories:- DC Comics superhero teams
- Comics characters introduced in 1976
- Characters created by Joe Simon
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