Crowbar (comics)

Crowbar
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Justice League of America #233 (December 1984)
Created by	Gerry Conway (script) Chuck Patton (pencils)
In-story information
Alter ego	Malcolm Tandy
Team affiliations	Cadre
Abilities	Can fire energy blast from his crowbar

Crowbar is a fictional supervillain in the DC Universe. He first appeared in Justice League of America #233 (December 1984).

Fictional character biography

Malcolm 'Crowbar' Tandy was part of a Detroit gang when the Overmaster infused his namesake weapon with incredible energy and drafted him into his first Cadre. Crowbar’s original crowbar was destroyed during a battle with Justice League. Later, while a regular at the supervillain bar called 'The Dark Side', he lost a replacement crowbar in a card game to an investigative reporter named Tortolini. Several of his supervillain friends lost their items of power also. In Justice League Of America #44 Crowbar and his friends reclaimed the items from the man, but they were soon defeated in a battle with the Justice League. Crowbar was defeated by Lightray.^[1]

He was last seen in San Francisco when he and the rest of the Cadre battled the Power Company alongside Doctor Polaris.^[2]

Crowbar resurfaced in Justice League of America #17, along with Black Mass and Nightfall, trying to leave America and escape capture at the hands of the Suicide Squad, which were sending villains to another planet. Off-panel, the group was stopped by Black Lightning.^[3]

Powers and abilities

Crowbar wields an energised crowbar that can fire energy blasts.

In other media

Television

• Crowbar (alongside Cadre members Black Mass, Fastball, and Shatterfist) appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Clash." They were defeated by Superman and Batman. He later returns as a member of Gorilla Grodd's Legion of Doom.

References

1. ^ "Justice League of America" #44 (November 1, 1990)
2. ^ 'Power Company #5, (August 2002)
3. ^ "Justice League America" #17 (2008)