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B'wana Beast Zviad Baazovi Baby Boom Baby Boom is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She was among the children who were experimented on by Doctor Love while they were still in their mother's womb, causing her to develop the ability to generate accelerate matter and generate explosions with her mind. She becomes a member of Helix and an enemy of Infinity, Inc. Baby Wildebeest Bad Samaritan The Bad Samaritan (alias Zviad Baazovi) is a reformed anti-villain, and former enemy of the Outsiders who first appeared in ''The Outsiders'' #3 (January 1986). He is a former Soviet spymaster and eventually becomes the second White Queen's Bishop of Checkmate. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Baazovi is very loyal to his native country of Georgia and shows a great deal of distrust for Russia. While working with a Russian White Queen and White Queen's Knight, Baazovi has shown to be very cooperative despite their different political ideo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helix (DC Comics)
The following is a list of fictional criminal and terrorist organizations that have been published by DC Comics and their imprints. 0-9 100 Originally based in Metropolis (comics), Metropolis, the 100 kept a firm grip on the city's criminal underworld for years, indulging in crimes such as drug trafficking and racketeering. Their first appearance was in ''Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane'' #105. A Retroactive continuity, retcon in ''Superman'' #665 (September 2007) shows that during Superman's early years in Metropolis, the 100 was a smaller organization called the 10 with ties to Intergang. 1,000 The former Director of the 1,000 was a US senator named Henry Ballard who shepherded the organization's new direction and goals. Under Director Ballard, the 100 changed its name to the 1,000, attempting to expand their reach to even the Oval Office with Director Ballard as the presidential candidate. The 1,000 first appear in ''Booster Gold'' #2 (March 1986). 2000 Committee A vast cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo!
Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon. Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google. Etymology The word "yahoo" is a backronym for "Yet another, Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doom Patrol
Doom Patrol is a superhero team from DC Comics. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in ''My Greatest Adventure'' #80 (June 1963), and was created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney, along with artist Bruno Premiani. Doom Patrol has appeared in different incarnations in multiple comics, and have been adapted to other media. The series' creator has suspected that Marvel Comics copied the basic concept to create the X-Men, which debuted a few months later. Doom Patrol are a group of super-powered misfits whose "gifts" caused them alienation and trauma. Dubbed the "world's strangest heroes" by editor Murray Boltinoff, the original team included the Chief (comics), Chief (Niles Caulder), Robotman (Cliff Steele), Robotman (Cliff Steele), Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr), and Negative Man (Larry Trainor); Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) and Mento (comics), Mento (Steve Dayton) joined soon after. The team remained the featured characters of ''My Greatest Adventure'', which was re-titled ''Doom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
