Bird-Man
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Bird-Man is the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe.
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[edit] Henry Hawk
| Bird-Man I | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil #10 (Oct 1965) |
| Created by | Wally Wood and Bob Powell |
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| Alter ego | Henry Hawk |
| Team affiliations | Ani-Men, Unholy Three |
| Abilities | (briefly) natural flight with wings |
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.[1] Later, Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man formed a team called the "Unholy Three" with the Exterminator, and fought Daredevil again.[2] The Unholy Three, as a team of independent thieves, fought Daredevil and Spider-Man and were defeated.[3]
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 the X-Men.[4]
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.[5]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Achille DiBacco
| Bird-Man II | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil #157 (Mar 1979) |
| Created by | Roger McKenzie, Mary Jo Duffy, and Gene Colan |
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| Alter ego | Achille DiBacco |
| Team affiliations | Ani-Men |
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.[6] The second Bird-Man is later murdered by the Scourge of the Underworld, along with many other villains in the infamous "Bar with No Name" incident.[7]
[edit] 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.
