- Bird-Man
Bird-Man is the name of two fictional characters in the
Marvel Universe . Both have similar powers and appearance, and both appeared primarily as a member of the villain team theAni-Men .Henry Hawk
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character_name=Bird-Man I
real_name=Henry Hawk
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publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Daredevil" #10 (Oct 1965)
creators=Wally Wood and Bob Powell
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
alliances=Ani-Men Unholy Three
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powers=(briefly) natural flight with wings|Publication history
The first Bird-Man first appeared in "Daredevil" #10-11 (October, December 1965), and was created by
Stan Lee , Bob Powell, andWally Wood .The character subsequently appears in "Daredevil" #39-41 (April-June 1968), "Daredevil Annual" #2 (1971), "Marvel Team-Up" #25 (September 1974), "X-Men" #94-95 (August-October 1975), and "Iron Man" #115-116 (October-November 1978), in which he dies. The character appears posthumously in "Iron Man" #139 (October 1980) and "Classic X-Men" #3 (November 1986).
Bird-Man appeared as part of the "Ani-Men" entry in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition" #16, and in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition" #32.
Fictional character biography
Along with Ape-Man, Cat-Man, and Frog-Man, Henry Hawk was recruited by a man named the Organizer to form the original
Ani-Men . The Organizer supplied Henry with a winged costume enabling him to fly, and dubbed him Bird-Man. The Organizer was secretly Abner Jonas, a candidate for mayor of New York City, who sent the Ani-Men on missions to undermine the current administration. Daredevil defeated them and the Ani-Men and Organizer all went to prison. ["Iron Man" #10-11] Later, Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man formed a team called the "Unholy Three" with the Exterminator, and fought Daredevil again. ["Daredevil" #39-41] The Unholy Three, as a team of independent thieves, fought Daredevil andSpider-Man and were defeated. ["Marvel Team-Up" #25]Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man later rejoined the Ani-Men, and the Ani-Men went to work for
Count Nefaria . Nefaria's scientists submitted the unwitting Ani-Men to processes that gave them superhuman powers and animal-like forms. The Ani-Men invaded the Cheyenne Mountain missile base for Count Nefaria, and fought theX-Men . ["X-Men" #94-95]The Ani-Men lost their superhuman powers and reverted back to normal. Nefaria sent the four original Ani-Men to kill Tony Stark, however the Spymaster detonated a bomb with which he had intended to kill Stark, and the resulting explosion killed the Ani-Men instead. ["Iron Man" #115-116]
Powers and abilities
Originally, Hawk had no superhuman powers. He was an athletic man who wore a costume which incorporated a powered exoskeleton that amplified his strength sufficiently to utilize the costume's artificial wings to maneuver in flight.
While employed by the Exterminator, Hawk wielded a "time-displacement ray" ("T-ray") gun that fired a ray which projected its victim into a limbo-like inter-dimensional void. The gun could thus "displace" a victim for a limited period of time, such as 30 minutes. A ray blast of sufficient intensity could exile a victim to the inter-dimensional void permanently.
Hawk was later subjected to an unknown mutagenic process administered by
Count Nefaria 's scientists which temporarily gave him actual natural, feathered wings capable of bearing him aloft in flight and hollowed bones, and gave him superhuman strength and enhanced his speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes.Achille DiBacco
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character_name=Bird-Man
real_name=Achille DiBacco
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publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Daredevil" #157 (Mar 1979)
creators=Roger McKenzie ,Mary Jo Duffy , andGene Colan
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alliances=Ani-Men
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powers=|Publication history
The second Bird-Man first appeared in "Daredevil" #157-158 (March, May 1979), and was created by
Roger McKenzie ,Mary Jo Duffy , andGene Colan .The character subsequently appears in "Captain America" #319 (July 1986), in which he was killed by the
Scourge of the Underworld .Bird-Man appeared as part of the "Ani-Men" entry in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition" #16, and in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition" #32.
Fictional character biography
The
Death-Stalker sometime later recruits a new team of Ani-Men, with a new Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man. He sends the new Ani-Men to capture Matt Murdock. The Black Widow defeats Bird-Man, and the Death-Stalker murders Ape-Man and Cat-Man upon the completion of their mission, effectively ending the Ani-Men. [Daredevil #157-158] The second Bird-Man is later murdered by theScourge of the Underworld , along with many other villains in the infamous "Bar with No Name" incident. ["Captain America" #319]Powers and abilities
DiBacco possessed the same abilities as Bird-Man I, including natural, feathered wings capable of bearing him aloft in flight, hollowed bones, superhuman strength, enhanced speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes.
References
External links
*http://en.marveldatabase.com/Achille_DiBacco_%28Earth-616%29
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