Monday 10 May 2010

Underworld Unleashed Unknowns

Months later than planned, I've just about finished annotating Underworld Unleashed over at the Annotated DC Project and will be publishing the notes in a few days or so.

Before I do, I wonder if anyone can help identify the following characters, most of whom appear in the first issue when Neron's attempting to buy their souls.


#1 - guy with a bandana and a mask. - SOLVED! It's Gunhawk (thanks to Billy K)


#2 - the bare chested guy being hit by the Flash. SOLVED! maverick_slayer and brik-el on the DC message boards name him as Purgatory, a low level Green Lantern villain.


#3 - the guy in black on the left (it's not Merlyn as he appears elsewhere on the same page)

#4 - the one with the white eye patch on the left - Billy K thinks this might be Sonar II, a Kyle Rayner villain; possible but I'm going to hold off and see if anyone else offers anything


#5 - female cyborg (though not Cyborgirl) SOLVED! Anonymous identified her as Hi-Tech, a Superman villain.


#6 - guy in blue and white with a moustache who might, as Kara O'Conner suggests, be the Russian Stalnoivolk, or Wintergreen, Deathstroke's ally as suggested by angelicknight on the DC Message Boards.


#7 - guy with his lower face covered by a mask. Anonymous in the comments (and brik-el on the DC message board) suggested it might be Shadow Thief - possible, I suppose, but I can't find any images of Shadow Thief looking like this even after his Neron-induced upgrade. SOLVED! It's confirmed, this is indeed Shadow Thief; thanks to angelicknight for providing the scan.


#8 - the blue guy behind Cheetah.


#9 - guy with a pony tail (not much to go on there I know!) though Kara O'Conner wonders if it might be Kirk Langstrom, aka Man-Bat.

If you can identify any of these, please leave a comment and you'll get your name on the site's Acknowledgements page!

9 comments:

  1. The guy in the bandanna is Gunhawk from Detective Comics #674

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  2. Cheers, Billy - that's a great help. One down, eight to go...

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  3. #4 is the second Sonar, I believe, who first appeared in Green Lantern #66 during the Kyle Rayner days

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  4. Thanks again, Billy - it might be Sonar II but I'm not 100% convinced; if no-one else comes up with anything, I'll stick with that.

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  5. This page:

    http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=498208&page=2

    has a bunch of scans of Kyle Rayner Green Lantern issues but not issue #66. There are some scans of issue #67, but all the Sonars on them seem to be a male.

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  6. Cheers, Rottgutt - I know #5 is definitely NOT Sonar but if #4 isn't the same character as #5 then #4 might be Sonar, at least that's what Billy K thinks.

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  7. Is #7 Shadow-Thief?

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  8. #5 is the Superman villain Hi-Tech

    Her first appearance is http://www.comics.org/issue/51856/

    The face-metal appeared later I think.

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  9. Anonymous - Hi-Tech's confirmed, so huge thanks for that; #7 as Shadow Thief? Not sure - I've hunted round but can't find anything definitive yet.

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