Fastball (comics)

Fastball
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Justice League of America #234 (January 1985)
Created by Gerry Conway
Chuck Patton
In-story information
Alter ego John Malone
Team affiliations Cadre
Secret Society of Super Villains
Abilities Powered exoskeleton
Explosive spheres

Fastball is a DC Comics supervillain.[1]

Publication history

Fastball first appeared in Justice League of America #234 and was created by Gerry Conway and Chuck Patton.

Fictional character biography

Fastball (whose real name is John Malone) was a former baseball player whom the Overmaster equipped with an exoskeleton, gloves and the requisite wrist bands to enable him to pitch potentially deadly explosive spheres.[1] He was drafted into the Overmaster’s first Cadre, but after their defeat at the hands of the Justice League, Fastball went underground and was largely forgotten. Another villain with a similar motif, named Overthrow, was often mistaken for Fastball. The real Fastball finally returned to a life of crime, rejoining the Cadre under the leadership of Doctor Polaris in San Francisco. The villains were defeated by the Power Company. [2]

In Infinite Crisis, Fastball was a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. He was later killed by an OMAC.[1][3]

Fastball has been identified as one of the deceased entombed below the Hall of Justice.

Powers and abilities

Fastball throws explosive spheres, thanks to a cybernetic exo-skeleton.

In other media

Television

References

  1. 1 2 3 Greenberger, Robert (2008), "Fastball", in Dougall, Alastair, The DC Comics Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, p. 118, ISBN 0-7566-4119-5, OCLC 213309017
  2. "Power Company" #5, (August 2002)
  3. The OMAC Project #6
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