Tar Pit (comics)

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caption=Tar Pit
comic_color=background:#8080ff
character_name=Tarpit
real_name=Joseph "Joey" V. Monteleone
publisher=DC Comics
debut="The Flash" vol. 2 #174 (July 2001)
creators=Geoff Johns
Scott Kolins
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
alliances=Injustice League Rogues
aliases=
powers=could "project" his consciousness to inanimate objects
his mind now dwells in a body of malleable asphalt
can throw pieces of the asphalt at others and is also invulnerable|

Tar Pit is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics and one of the new rogues of the current Flash (Wally West).

History

The younger brother of a local drug lord Jack Monteleone, Joey Monteleone was arrested for armed robbery. While serving time, he discovered he had the metahuman ability to inhabit inanimate objects. With this ability, he got his kicks by transferring his mind from object to object until he couldn't move his mind from a vat of asphalt. Now he remains in that hot tarpit while his real body remains unconscious and locked up in Iron Heights.

Now in his new form, Tarpit first caused havok at a Keystone City ice hockey game, trying to steal the Stanley Cup for himself . He was stopped by Flash and Captain Cold, although Cold himself stole the trophy. He has appeared sporadically with the other rogues ever since.

Most recently, he has been seen among the new Injustice League and is one of the villains featured in Salvation Run.

Powers and abilities

Tar Pit’s body is made of molten asphalt and burns on touch. He is able to trap people in the substance of his body and can hurl flaming chunks of tar at his enemies. Due to his body being made of tar, Tar Pit is practically invulnerable.

Before becoming Tar Pit, Joey was able to project his consciousness into inanimate objects and animate them.

External links

* [http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/tarpit.html Tar Pit's bio]