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Created by:
Irv Novick &
Harry Shorten
Real Name:
Joe Higgins
First Appearance:
Pep Comics #1, January 1940
First DC Appearance:
Green Arrow/Black Canary #20, July 2009
BIOGRAPHY:
Lieutenant Joe Higgins was dying in the dirt of a battlefield in
Afghanistan when they whisked him away to a top-secret facility and
saved his life with nanotechnology so experimental they couldn’t
dare to use it on a living man. Now Higgins has been enlisted to a
whole new mission – to be the public face of the American fighting
man as the patriotic Shield!
POWERS:
Near indestructibility, extraordinary strength, limited flight,
access to the spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet, and the ability
to monitor all know frequencies.
ABILITIES:
Able to withstand tremendous heat. Invulnerable to bodily harm.
Superhuman strength, could also leap tremendous distances and
heightened speed and endurance.
STRENGTH LEVEL:
Superhuman
WEAKNESSES:
None known
CHECK LIST:
Green Arrow/Black Canary #20, July 2009 (1 page cameo)
Wonder
Woman #32,
July 2009 (1 page cameo)
Superman #688,
July 2009 (1 page cameo)
The Red Circle: Web #1,
October 2009
(1 page cameo)
The
Red Circle: Shield #1,
October 2009 (full appearance)
Shield #1,
November 2009
Shield #2,
December 2009
Shield #3,
January 2010
Shield #4,
February 2010
Shield #5,
March 2010
Shield #6,
April 2010
Shield #7,
May 2010
Shield #8,
June 2010
Magog #8,
June 2010
Shield #9,
July 2010
Magog #9,
July 2010
Mighty Crusaders Special,
July 2010
Shield #10,
August 2010
Web #10,
August 2010
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