Loop is visited in prison by his "wife": the Black CatLOOP

Real Name: Lash

Identity/Class: Human

Occupation: Prisoner, hacker

Group Membership: Cat's Eye

Affiliations: Formerly Black Cat, Walter Hardy, Paul Proust

Enemies: Scar the Stalker

Known Relatives: Brian Lash (son)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Parkgreen, a prison of minimum security

First Appearance: Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2 (August, 1994)

Powers/Abilities: Lash is a normal human extremely skilled in electronics, computer science and hacking.

Loop and the Black Cat talks about their common "job"History:
(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2 (fb) - BTS) - Lash was a burglar. He was friend and "colleague" of Walter Hardy, Black Cat's father.

(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2 (fb) - BTS) - Lash had a son, Brian Lash, who became a dangerous and violent criminal.

(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2 (fb) - BTS) - At an unknown date he took the nickname of "Loop".

(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2 (fb) - BTS) - Lash was captured and went in jail, after a period of good conduct he was sent to Parkgreee, a prison of minimum security.

(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2) - Lash received the visit of Felicia Hardy who needed his help. That night Felicia, as the Black Cat, went back to Parkgreen, and gave a CD-ROM about the Project: First Strike and some tools to Lash.

(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#3 - BTS) - Lash transformed a television in a video-receiver-transmitter. He learned that his son escaped from prison.

(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#3) - Lash was contacted by the Black Cat again through its new "transmitter". He warned the Black Cat about his son, who was mad and dangerous.

(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#4 - BTS) - During the following week, Felicia Hardy, Paul Proust, and Lash set up an Investigating Agency: the Cat's Eye.
Loop hacked some information about a group of terrorists who would be attacking the New York ?BORSA?. He wrote a program for the advertising of the Cat's Eye Investigations.

Cat's Eye investigations(Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#4) - Loop informed the Black Cat about the terrorists' plan and sent the software to her. Felicia, after having stopped the terrorists, loaded the software in the Stock Exchange network. The day after, the software was run in every computer on the network of the Stock Exchange showing the Cat's Eye logo, giving a great publicity to the investigating  Agency. Loop, Felicia and Proust, enjoyed the increased amount of work of the Agency

(Web of Spider-Man#128) - Loop and Proust, worried for Felicia Hardy who had disappeared from 24 hours, were looking some information about Peter Parker. Loop was contacted by Proust, and seconds later Spider-Man and the Scarlet Spider entered Cat's Eye's facility, asking what was happening.

(Spider-Man Unlimited#11 (fb) - BTS) - Loop hacked the network of the Police of New York and found the dossier about the murder of Andrea Havershaw.

(Spider-Man Unlimited#11) - The day after he told all the information to Felicia Hardy, the first suspect for the murder.

(Spider-Man Unlimited#11 - BTS) - Loop acquired some information about the Russian Mafia and the Kasatanov family, linked to the Havershaw murder.

(Spider-Man Unlimited I#11) - That night he gave the information to Paul Proust.

Comments: Created by Terry Kavanagh/Joey Cavalieri, Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville.

Profile by Spidermay

Clarifications:

Loop has no known connections to


Images:
Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2, page 8, panel 3 (Loop)
Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2, page 9, panel 2 (Loop, head shot)
Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#4, page 24, panel 2 (Cat's Eye Logo)


Appearances:
Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#2-3 (August-September, 1994) - Terry Kavanagh (plot), Joey Cavalieri (script), Andrew Wildman (pencils), Stephen Baskerville (inks), Eric Fein (editor)
Felicia Hardy: The Black Cat#4 (Octpber, 1994) - Terry Kavanagh (plot), Joey Cavalieri (script), Andrew Wildman (pencils), Stephen Baskerville, Don Hudson, Rodney Ramos & Fred Fredricks (inks), Eric Fein (editor)
Web of Spider-Man#128 (September, 1995) - Tom DeFalco (script), Todd DeZago (writer), Steven Butler (pencils), Randy Emberlin (inks), Eric Fein (editor)
Spider-Man Unlimited I#11 (February, 1996) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Dave Hoover (pencils), Joe Rubinstein (inks), Eric Fein (editor)


Last updated: 10/25/12

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