RED 9

Real Name: Wallace Jackson

Identity/Class: Human

Occupation: Unrevealed

Group Membership: The Initiative

Affiliations: Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady), Bengal, Constrictor, Crusader, Diamondback, Gargoyle, Gauntlet, Geiger, Geldoff, Henry Peter Gyrich, Komodo, Philmont Magee, Melee, Nighthawk, Red Nine, Scarlet Spiders, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Stature, Stingray, Taskmaster, 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett), Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)
the elderly people at State Street Hospital

Enemies: KIA, Doctor Rattamun, Skrulls, Spider-Man (before)

Known Relatives: Steve (uncle)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Baytown, Texas

First Appearance: Amazing Spider-Man I#264 (May, 1985)

Powers/Abilities: Wears a costume which makes him able to fly, and gives him superhuman strength. The costume also gives him a force field protecting him from harm, preventing Spider-Man's web from sticking to him, and enables him to shoot energy bolts. Wallace himself is a 16 year old kid, not stupid but not all that bright, either

History:
(Amazing Spider-Man I#264 (fb) - bts) At NASA, Steve (Red 9's uncle) builds the costume worn by his nephew

(Amazing Spider-Man I#264 (fb) - bts) A few days ago, Wallace turned 16, and a few of his friends put him on a bus o New York City so he could go fight his favorite superhero

(Amazing Spider-Man I#264 (fb) - bts) Red 9 comes to New York City to look for Spider-Man to fight him.

(Amazing Spider-Man I#264) Meets with Spider-Man, begins to "play" with the superhero, telling him "you can't catch me". Telling Spider-Man that Red 9 is "rough, tough, baddest of the bad," he tries to attack him, but Spider-Man evades him, making Red 9 crash into a chimney. Spider-Man tells Red 9 to go home to his mommy, but Red 9 tells him that he has been looking for him for two days and two nights, and now he wants to fight him. Spider-Man still proves smarter than the kid, but Red 9 tries all his tricks using his blasters to try to hit Spider-Man, although he is again outwitted by Spidey. The two of them keep on fighting each other, and suddenly they crash through a window at the State Street Hospital, Philmont Magee's room. Red 9 passes out, and one of the nurses at the hospital looks at the young kid, telling Doctor Rattamun that the kid has a high fever and is out cold. Spider-Man leaves Red 9 at the hospital.
(bts) When he wakes up again, he leaves the hospital to look for Spider-Man again
(Amazing Spider-Man I#264) Out in the streets, he once again attacks Spider-Man to prove his worth. Spider-Man asks the kid where he got the costume from, and Red 9 tells him that he got it from his uncle Steve, who works for NASA. During the ongoing fight between Spider-Man and Red 9, Red 9 accidentally destroys some papers Spider-Man has worked hard for to obtain. Spider-Man gets mad at his "enemy", and Red 9 decides to make a run for it. Spider-Man stops him, and destroys his costume, leaving the kid.
(bts) comes to State Street Hospital to help the elderly people against their doctor Rattamun, helps them tie him up, until Spider-Man arrives.
(Amazing Spider-Man I#264) When Spider-Man comes to the hospital he learns that Wallace has helped the elderly people against Doctor Rattamun

(Civil War: Battle Damage Report) - Tony Stark considered Red Nine as a potential Initiative recruit.

(Avengers: The Initiative#8 (fb)) - Red Nine was drafted into the Initiative, and arrived in a busful of new recruits including Ant-Man, the Crusader, Melee, Geldoff, Dragon Lord, Geiger and Diamondback. Taskmaster inspected the recruits as they arrived, introducing himself as their drill instructor. Red Nine and the other recruits scattered when Ant-Man wound up in a fight with fellow recruit Stature.

(Avengers: The Initiative#9 (fb)) - Red Nine and the other new cadets were pitted against Taskmaster and quickly beaten by him in battle. Later, Taskmaster brought them to the combat simulator room to test their abilities against robots, but the rampaging clone KIA burst in. Red Nine joined the other cadets in attacking KIA.

(Avengers: The Initiative#9) - Taskmaster found Red Nine's unconscious body after his defeat at KIA's hands.

(Avengers: The Initiative#12) - Red Nine accompanied Triathlon, Taskmaster and his fellow cadets as they presented Dragon Lord's remains to his family.

(Avengers: The Initiative#14) - Red Nine was present at Camp Hammond when 3-D Man appeared to warn the Initiative about the Skrull infiltration in their ranks, but due to a deception by Crusader he was led to believe that everyone at Camp Hammond - including Red Nine - was a Skrull.

(Avengers: The Initiative#15) - Red Nine was sent into battle with the rest of the active Initiative cadets to defend New York against an army of powerful "Super-Skrull" agents.

Comments: Created by Craig Anderson

Profile by: The Beetle with Prime Eternal

CLARIFICATIONS:
Red 9 shouldn't be confused with

• RED GHOST, Fantastic Four I#13
• REDNECK, of the Omega Gang at the Xavier Institute, @ X-Men II#135
• NUMBER NINE @ Daredevil I#271
• or any other character named Red or 9/Nine

Wallace Jackson shouldn't be confused with

• JACKSON, a bank robber @Nova I#2
• AJANII JACKSON @Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty#8
• ANDREW "JOCK" JACKSON of Code: Blue @ Thor I#426
• BRENT JACKSON @ Wolverine II#162--presumably the same guy as from Cable II#60 and Deathlok III#1
• BRET JACKSON  - track star, lured into smoking until he began losing races--Spider-Man + Power Man + Storm
• CELIA JACKSON @ Black Goliath#5
• "CRACKAJACK" JACKSON - father of Hammer (of Hammer and Anvil), homeless, taught Hulk how to read
      --Incredible Hulk II#182d
• CURTISS JACKSON, aka Power Broker @ Machine Man I#6
• LUCAS JACKSON @ Thing I#4
• KEITH JACKSON - cousin of Celia, accompanied she and black goliath to kirgar--Black Goliath#4
• OWEN JACKSON - child molester, lost sanity when burnt by Man-Thing—Man-Thing III#1
• RALPHIE JACKSON  – New York Underground—Daredevil I#333
• SARAH ANNE JACKSON @ Thing I#4
• STEVE JACKSON @ Rom#2
• MICHAEL JACKSON, King of pop
• JACKSON 5 / THE JACKSONS, Michael Jackson and his brothers
• or any other named Jackson or members of the Jackson family of pop

Philmont Magee shouldn't be confused with

• PHILIP MAGEE, Again ;-) @ [mentioned] Amazing Spider-Man I#264
• TINA & JERRY McGEE, DC characters friends of Wally West, aka Flash
• MISTER MAGOO, classic cartoon character

DOCTOR RATTAMUN

Doctor and hospital administrator at State Street Hospital, a doctor who works by the books, and it not very fond of elderly people, especially dislikes Philmont Magee.

Called Doctor Ratface by the patients

-- Amazing Spider-Man I#264

PHILMONT MAGEE

Elderly man who lived at 81 West 12th Street, but was by mistake declared dead, due to a computer mix-up with Philip Magee of 12 West 81st Street. Philip Magee died two month ago, and Philmont Magee was moved to the hospital, but the two persons were mixed up by a computer mistake, and Doctor Rattamun who wanted Philmont out of his hospital, tried to use the fact that Philmont was declared dead to have him out of the hospital, but Spider-Man helped the old man

-- Amazing Spider-Man I#264