SPEEDO

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human/Criminal

Occupation: Professional criminal

Affiliations: Leader of own gang, Zipper (his second-in-command), unknown boss

Enemies: Hawkeye, Blind Justice

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Los Angeles

First Appearance: Solo Avengers#9/1 (August; 1988)

Powers/Abilities: Speedo showed some leadership abilities, normal hand-to-hand combatant for a man his age and build, he uses guns as weapons

History: (SA#9/1): Hawkeye comes to Speedo's office to learn more about the vigilante known as Blind Justice. After Hawkeye has defeated all Speedo's men, Speedo tells him that he have no information on Blind Justice. He tells him that he would deliver Blind Justice to him on a silver platter if he had any information, because Blind Justice is bad for business, but he has no information on the guy. Hawkeye leaves, and Speedo calls his boss--a woman--who tells him that they could try to kill Hawkeye and blame someone else. Speedo likes the way his boss thinks.
He calls Hawkeye trying to disguise his voice, telling him that there is something going on at the docks tonight. At night, Hawkeye comes to the docks, where he is attacked by Speedo's gang. The vigilante known as Shroud appears and helps Hawkeye defeat the gang. Meanwhile Speedo and his second-in-command, Zipper, is standing on a building nearby watching the fight. Speedo is angry that he can't see anything because of the darkness: he is unaware that Shroud has clouded the docks in darkness. Suddenly Blind Justice appears behind him, and saying that because he wanted to kill an Avenger, he now needs to die. Speedo tells him that he was only making a joke with Hawkeye, reaches for the gun, and tries to shoot Blind Justice. Blind Justice himself also manage to shoot Speedo who dies

Comments: Created by Tom DeFalco & Mark Bright

A woman with a neckless is seen here-- Speedo calls her boss. We don't know who she is, Lotus perhaps, but the MCP says Lotus first appeared in S.A#30.

Profile by: The Beetle ; Images by Zerostar

CLARIFICATIONS:
Speedo has no connection to:

• Speedball, a.k.a Robbie Baldwin @Amazing Spider-Man Annual 22
• Speedball, a.k.a Darrion Grobe @New Warriors I#50
• Speed Demon, a.k.a Whizzer, James Sanders, @, Avengers I#69, Amazing Spider-Man I#222
• Speed Demon of Earth-Amalgam, Blaze Allen, a hybrid of Barry Allen and Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider/Zarathos and the Demon,
  @ Speed Demon#1
• Speed Demon of Earth-Amalgam, Wally West, a hybrid of Wally West and Ghost Rider/Dan Ketch
• Speedfreak of The Lost Boys @X-Factor#35
• Speedfreek @Incredible Hulk II#388
• Speedy, a super hero from the DC universe

Zipper has no know connection to:

• Daniel "Zapper" Ridge, old friend of the Savage She-Hulk#2
• Zapper, Caesar Cirigliano, who wore an opti-link helmet and fought Cloak and Dagger, @ Strange Tales II#7
• Zapper, Colin Smith, @ Agent Graphic Novel
• ZipZap of the Ultraverse, Leon Balford, @ Strangers#1

Zipper

Speedo's second-in-command, who helps Speedo with all his activities, and almost always by his side. When Blind Justice came to kill Speedo, he was also presumed killed by Blind Justice

- SA#8/1

Last updated: 10/03/02

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