![]() Gordon Godfrey captured Boomerang and promised to execute him on live television. Boomerang immediately returned to the streets and embarked on a crime spree in New York City, where he battled Changeling and The Flash. Waller tried to keep Boomerang locked up, but Flag insisted on honoring their deal and released him. Boomerang was furious when he realized that they were all supposed to die, and Rick Flag explained that every one of them is expendable including himself. Boomerang distracted the monster with projectiles while Deadshot made the kill. They attacked Brimstone at Mount Rushmore. He was forced to wear an explosive bracelet that would detonate if he disobeyed orders. LegendsĪmanda Waller recruited Captain Boomerang to her new Suicide Squad, in exchange for a pardon and prison release. Flash then creates a waterspout as they fly over a lake, bringing them back down, where Flash takes them to police headquarters. Foiled, Boomerang and his father attempt to get away with a special flying boomerang. However, Flash stayed in the shape of a boomerang, knowing that he would be returned to his sender. All of this had been recorded by Boomerang's father and put into a scrapbook entitled Flash - This is your Death! Boomerang set Flash up in a machine, that sent the hero hurtling like a boomerang into another dimension, filled with terrible monsters. However, the Captain contorted his body into the shape of a boomerang, which caused him to hurtle back towards the Flash, knocking him down. Barry quickly changed into the Flash, and tried to apprehend Boomerang by creating air gusts, pushing the villain in front of him. As he escaped, he hurled a boomerang at Barry Allen for rubbing him the wrong way (a little earlier, the scientist had told one of the police officers not to take off the villain's straitjacket). ![]() ![]() However, he used one of his getaway boomerangs to escape. The police evacuated the wagon and put Captain Boomerang into temporary custody at the police station. He was being transported to the state pen, but an anonymous phone call (which had actually been made by Boomerang's father, Aussie Green) said that there was a bomb in the patrol wagon that he was being transported in. One year later, he had the chance to use one of them. Once, he planted special getaway boomerangs in every jail within one hundred miles of Central City, where they would remain invisible until he concentrated his brain waves to materialize them. However, on the descent back to ground, the Flash released himself and captured the villain. The next time that Boomerang encountered the Flash, he knocked him out with one of his boomerangs and tied the unconscious speedster to his "Rocket Boomerang", which he sent hurtling high up into the Earth's atmosphere. He even brought the Flash to his apartment and introduced him to actors posing as his parents, stating that they would starve if he was convicted of the robberies and lost his job as Wiggins's spokesman. However, Captain Boomerang fooled the speedster by claiming that he was being impersonated. This alerted the attention of the Flash, and the Scarlet Speedster caught him in the act during one of his heists. Harkness, however, had other plans for his new alter ego. Wiggins outfitted him with a costume and gave him the name "Captain Boomerang." Silver Age Career Under the alias "George Green", Harkness auditioned for and got the job. Wiggins Game Company's latest product, a toy boomerang. Wiggins had been searching for a spokesman for W.W. His mother gave him a plane ticket to Central City and told him to get in touch with Wiggins. However, this incident caused Harkness's stepfather to kick him out of the house. When Harkness was eighteen, he and Wentworth robbed a general store and were able to make their escape with the aid of Harkness's boomerang. He further honed his skills while spending some time hiding from the law in the Australian bush. He discovered he had great skill with the aboriginal weapon and often used it for mischief with his best friend, Mick Wentworth. In school one day, Harkness crafted a boomerang. His stepfather, Ian Harkness, hated the boy and made his life miserable. ![]() Wiggins, and an Australian woman, Betty Harkness, George Harkness was raised in poverty in the small town of Kurrumburra, Australia. The illegitimate son of an American toy-maker, W.W.
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