#government agent bruce wayne from los angeles

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me, clueless: i wonder what i should watch on my crowded train ride to kyoto. hmm, i’ve never watched the 1943 batman serials, and it’s all on youtube! nice let’s watch some historic batman media. ok let’s go, chapter 1

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Redemption: Ex-DEA Agent Darnell Garcia tells the truth and nothing but the truth By Brandon I. Brooks, Managing Editor Published January 21, 2016 Darnell Garcia (Courtesy Photo) Darnell Garcia, LAPD class of November 1977. (Courtesy Photo) Darnell Garcia has lived a storybook life to say the least. So much so that a Hollywood movie is being scripted based on his life story. Bridal Path Films are in the midst of negotiating with major studios to tell the story of a man many would call nothing short of controversial. Why controversial? Well Darnell Garcia is an ex-Drug Enforcement Agent (DEA) that served 21 years in federal prison. In 1988, at 43 years of age Garcia was charged with drug trafficking, money laundering and providing intelligence information to a fugitive drug dealer. He was released from federal prison in November 2011. Garcia was a former Los Angeles police officer who was recruited by the DEA to become an agent. “Probably the biggest mistake I ever made was leaving LAPD and going there,” Garcia said. “While a DEA agent, after a few years on the job, I was involved in and the principal person who sued the agency for racial discrimination,” Garcia said. “The case ended up matriculating its way up to the 9th circuit court of appeals where they issued a written opinion that’s in the law books today (Garcia v. Lawn 9th Cir. 1985). Basically found that the DEA is discriminatory in threatening agents with transfer to a different city if they didn’t play ball.” After winning the famous 1985 lawsuit, Garcia was reinstated as an agent and given about a $100,000 of past time. He would quickly resign six weeks after the ruling. Little did he know at the time but the DEA had an investigation underway and it was clear Garcia was the man they wanted. Darnell Garcia, LAPD class of November 1977. (Courtesy Photo) Darnell Garcia. (Courtesy Photo) Garcia’s mother and close family and friends felt he was a marked man, as well. “My mother who is originally from Arkansas, she told me, ‘You’re hit, you’re so finished there, you’re a marked man’,” Garcia said. While serving as a DEA agent he was a popular person among peers. Garcia won the international Karate Grand Championship in 1972 and was known for having received a black belt under the tutelage and training of Chuck Norris. That relationship and notoriety led to Garcia playing a role in the cult – classic film “Enter the Dragon” starring Bruce Lee. “I was a big friend of Bruce Lee’s,” said Garcia. He later went to work for Fred Williamson, better known as the “Hammer” and his movie company Po’ Boy Productions. “I did a few film’s with Fred but mainly behind the camera, I did some acting and stunt work…but I don’t think the movie business bit me that much,” said Garcia. “I think the that the high profile worked for me as well as it did against me.” Darnell Garcia (right) throws winning punch to win final match during 1972, International Karate Grand Champion. (Courtesy Photo) In late 1988, John Jackson, Wayne Countryman and Darnell Garcia were indicted for theft of 180 Kilos from a stash house in Pasadena and were set to go to trial. “For one year I was a fugitive, I wasn’t in the country, I was in Europe,” said Garcia. “A year later when I am extradited back from Europe and we have a trial in front of the honorable Judge Terry J. Hatter, Jr. who we thought was going to be extremely fair because he was a (President) Jimmy Carter appointee and he had talked like he was always going to be fair. Come to find out since I didn’t plead guilty and the other two guys plead guilty to testify against me, the case went from John Jackson being a principal drug dealer to him cooperating and it immediately changed to where I was the principal because I was pushing back. All about this time South Central L.A. was racked with Freeway Rick, who Jackson indirectly or directly worked with I do not know that part.” Garcia revealed exclusive evidence and information during his sit-down interview with the Sentinel that he expressed would once and for all redeem his name and paint the proper picture of the so-called Ex-DEA agent from south central who went rogue. Garcia produced a video recording of John Jackson recanting his testimony during the trial that assisted Garcia in being locked up for 21 years. The recording was made in October of 2015 and Garcia owns the copyright. In truly shocking testimony, Jackson can be heard explaining how he lied under oath to save himself and to receive less jail time. In addition to the video recording Garcia provided a signed declaration from not only Jackson but also Jackson’s wife Barbara Jean and Wayne Countryman. Countryman signed the declaration in November 2015. Darnell Garcia, 1972, International Karate Grand Champion. (Courtesy Photo) Darnell Garcia, 1972, International Karate Grand Champion. (Courtesy Photo) “In the DVD (video recording) Jackson finally tells the truth after 21 years,” Garcia shares. “Everything he said at trial, the entire 21 years I lost of my life was all a lie simply because they were going to give him life and his wife was going to go to jail also. I went to prison for 21 years, Jackson did 4 years and Countryman did 3 years,” Garcia said. “Everybody was appalled (that) I got an 80 years sentence. Well there is a tax in America as everybody knows, if you fight and go to trial you are going to get more time than if you plead out and say I am going to take the hit. I wasn’t going to plead out under no circumstance simply because I wasn’t going to plead to something I didn’t do to satisfy to get less time. My mentality was kill me, I am not going to lie to myself.” Barbara Jean Jackson’s written declaration expressed how the government at the time had wire tapped her telephone. She went on the write, “I was not allowed by the U.S. District Court, Judge Terry Hatter, to give testimony in the trial of Darnell Garcia. I believe this taped conversation would have explained to the jury how the Government was coercing my husband. I was threatened and intimidated by the prosecutor in the case with me being sent to jail for along period of time if my husband did not testify against Darnell Garcia. Within the attached taped, I told Darnell Garcia, that everyone accused in the case would be leniency according to the prosecutor if they were to say things against Mr. Garcia.” Garcia made it clear he didn’t contact the Sentinel to sell his life story for fame or notoriety. This was simply about the truth being told. “I am in the business of trying to get some type of redemption for my sons, my grandkids,” he said. “So that (they) can see, ‘Well Papa went to jail for 21 years but he might of only supposedly had to be there a much shorter amount of time.” Garcia was released early in November 2011 after violently appealing to President Obama through the clemency board and the parole board. “God Bless the President and the parole board,” Garcia said. According to Garcia, many of the harsher drug laws that affected minorities are slowly but surely changing. “In 1988 the sentencing reform act was changed and they made this harsh mandatory minimum and it really affected the crack guys a lot…it mainly affected the Brown and Black communities and they are trying to revisit that,” Garcia said. Back row top (left to right): V. Moogen, B. Burbege, D. Garcia and T. Updike, Front row (left to right): J. Natividad , Chuck Norris and P. Johnson. (Courtesy Photo) Back row top (left to right): V. Moogen, B. Burbege, D. Garcia and T. Updike, Front row (left to right): J. Natividad , Chuck Norris and P. Johnson. (Courtesy Photo) Despite it all Garcia notes that things like this, no matter how severe in nature, are a part of the job he signed up for. “People ask me, who is your animosity toward? My animosity is not toward the guys that testified against me. I was an agent I have been a policeman. I have seen it before and I saw it at trial. You don’t realize the real life as an agent or as a law enforcement person. You tell people, ‘I have seen mother’s tell against their son’s I have seen son’s tell against their mother’s,’” Garcia said. Instead, he remains thankful that he made it out despite the obstacles. “Our system is that you cooperate or we will bury you. The only way you can get on the other side of that is you outlive the sentence, which I have done. Thank goodness again to the President properly putting people on the parole board who let me go.” When asked was he innocent of all the crimes accused or did he simply commit some crimes as an agent, Garcia remained honest. “By no means am I saying I am innocent. I am saying that I am innocent of the drug crimes. Garcia notes that his decision to go to court was actually based on his faith in the justice system. “The reason I chose to go to trial is I actually believed the system is designed so you can have your day in court. My day in court I took the stand. I didn’t choose to not take the stand. People said you shouldn’t do it because you open your self up to cross-examination and all the other stuff. I absolutely believed in the system,” Garcia said. “ I grew up here in this city. When I became a policeman. That was very proud for me. I enjoyed being a policeman. I never lied on anybody, I never stole from anybody, and I never took a life, none of that. But to be in federal court and be a federal agent and ask for your day in court, I asked for my day in court because I knew I was going to take the stand and defend myself. I was going to take the stand and say let me tell you what I did do. I did cover for them in the sense that I knew what they were doing and I failed by not telling on them. And now I am in a position to where I see somebody stealing, dealing drugs and I should by the oath I took step up and tell on them. I didn’t, I will live with that. I failed the community in that.” “I had the opportunity at trial, which I chose to take to get on the stand and tell my side of the story and my side of the story was I didn’t do the drugs but I did help them put their money overseas. I did help Countryman put his money in the Cayman Islands because he wouldn’t go to the internal schools we had to learn how to do it him self. I did that. I did take Jackson into a fiduciary in Zurich and introduce him to someone who do what they do in Switzerland is hide money, hide the money. “I had to tell the Sentinel there are a lot of guys stuck prison because Bill Clinton took away habeas petition when he was President. A lot of guys have new evidence that can bring them home, or a 100 to 1 on a drug conviction, crack cocaine giving you a mandatory time where you can have 10 pounds of coke and go home in 5 years. So the habeas petition is the only way these guys are going to get it back. But for a sitting judge, a Black man (Judge Terry Hatter) to sit there and not suspect the system, meaning people who are in court telling, people you have let out while you had them on bail and you caught them again selling drugs and you are still going to go with what they say.” Garcia does, however, feel that his case is a great example of what the justice system could do better. “My condemnation from losing 21 years is the judiciary could have done better by me. They could have just asked all the people who wanted to recant, come into my court room and tell me face to face what you lied about. It’s never too late to save someone’s life

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BATMAN SERIAL'S 75th Anniversary (1943)

THE BATMAN 1943 Columbia Pictures Directed by Lambert Hillyer Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, Shirley Patterson, William Austin, Gus Glassmire, J. Carrol Naish 15 Chapters.  Released July 20th, 1943

Running 15 weeks and starting late July this meant Batman was on the screen in its various theaters well into the Halloween season of 1943.

Millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne (Lewis Wilson) and his young ward Dick Grayson (Douglas Croft) are secretly the crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. Their secret is known only by their faithful butler Alfred (William Austin) and apparently the US Government who has employed Wayne as a secret agent who are assigned to bring down a fifth column Axis Powers spy ring led by the insidious  Japanese Prince Dr. Tito Daka (J. Carrol Naish).

Daka kidnaps Martin Warren (Gus Glassmire), who happens to be the uncle of Bruce Wayne’s girlfriend Linda Page (Shirley Patterson), he transforms him into one of his mindless zombie slaves after his refusal to aid his subversive fifth column activities.

Missing from the serial is Police Commissioner Gordon who is replaced by the surly Captain Arnold who seems both to admire Batman’s results as he vows to hunt the vigilante down and capture him.

Over the course of fifteen chapters Batman and Robin interfere with Daka’s plans and try to help Linda find her missing Uncle Warren.

Complete with rayguns, alligator pits and the aforementioned zombies THE BATMAN is one of Columbia’s best serial efforts.

Wilson was 23 when he was contracted to play Batman making him not only the first actor to assume the role but the youngest to date.   He brings a good natured charm to the character and incorporates elements of Zorro’s Don Diego disguise complete with foppish and lazy attitudes to keep anyone from suspecting his true identity.  His clipped New England Accent adds a great deal to his performance.  Wilson was a 1939 graduate of the prestigious Worcester Academy.  His background was on Broadway and Batman was one of his first films and is his first lead role.  His son is currently the producer of the James Bond series.

Croft at 14 or 16 years old (depending on the source) is also the youngest actor to play Robin the Boy Wonder and brings a charm to the role that makes him a nice complement to Wilson’s more serious Batman.  Croft had an extensive acting background in film including playing the young James Cagney in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.

Shirley Patterson brings sincerity of emotion to the role of Linda Page who seems to genuinely care about the other characters and the dire situations they all find themselves in.  Patterson was a contract player for Columbia and was fresh off filming with The Three Stooges when she did BATMAN.  She would go on to star in such films as IT THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE.

William Austin is so good as Alfred the Butler that his physical appearance as well as his slightly bumbling efforts were adopted by the comic book character after this serial was released.  Alfred is a quasi third member of the Batman team and offers mixed results when he’s called in to help with a level of humor that never gets obnoxious.  A comedy relief character who adds just the right amount of laughs.

The serial is often criticized for not having a Batmobile, but since the character was only four years old at the time of filming we need look only to the very earliest Batmobile’s to see that Batman was often driving a regular roadster.

Equally unfair are the complaints about the costumes, while its true some of the angles are less than flattering, in some shots it looks spot on and offers a good representation of the suit worn in the comic books of the time.

The devil ears offer a slightly sinister look to the cowl which works.  The utility belt, although it's used only to hold his rope, is still more than just a standard belt.  A lot of the criticism of its lack of equipment is seen through the prism of the Adam West TV show where he seemed to pull whatever he needed out of that belt on a weekly basis.   The show was still 23 years away.

Movie serials were shown weekly often at Matinees as many of them were designed for kiddie shows, but at this period of the genre they were sometimes shown in first run theaters and the fact that THE BATMAN premiered on July 20, 1943 (which was a Tuesday) leads us to believe that the serial was treated as an A-Production, at least by serial standards.

When the serial was first announced the villain of the series was set to be The Joker and this is backed up by early posters for it.

That’s clearly The Joker that Batman is punching out and when you look at Daka’s costume and makeup it’s not hard to imagine the connection to The Joker.   National Comics objected to their villain being a spy for the Axis powers so he was changed to the Japanese spy.

Add to it that Daka’s secret headquarters is set deep within a  carnival sideshow and you have further evidence to back this theory up.

One of the things that strikes me about halfway through the first episode is the appearance of a paperboy who offers Bruce Wayne a newspaper detailing Batman’s latest adventure. The camera is strangely focused on the Paperboy as he approaches and there’s something to his swagger that makes him stand out.

Is this possibly a cameo by Batman creator Bob Kane?

Here’s a screen shot of the paperboy as he walks away set beside one of Kane at the time.   Looks like it very well could be.

Why would this not be noted anywhere else?  It’s a tough question to answer especially if one knows the level of Bob Kane’s ego, which is to say it’s doubtful he’d have forgotten such a monumental screen appearance— surely the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences must have considered a special Cameo Oscar?  Certainly Kane would think so.

There’s just something about the Newsboy scene that makes me think it is Kane.  In his autobiography he notes that he was in Los Angeles while they filmed the serial, although his memory is faulty as he states the car used was a simple Mercury (which was used in the second serial in 1949).  Kane also states he first met Marilyn Monroe at this time which is highly unlikely but right in line for the legend of Kane’s bravado.

It seems more likely to me that Kane simply forgot his cameo, as hard as that is to believe, because he sure looks and acts like Kane to me.  If its not Kane then it's clearly some other VIP such as a screenwriter or copy boy who's hamming up his big scene.

The serial is notable not only for being the first DC Comics character to make it to the big screen and for remaking Alfred into more of a comic foil, but also as the source that introduced The Bat Cave, although in the serial its called the slightly more awkward "The Bat's Cave" as Batman's hidden headquarters.  In the comics up to this point Batman used a barn behind Wayne Manor.  The serial also introduced the grandfather clock in Wayne's Study which leads to the secret staircase down to the cave (the poles wouldn't come along until 1966).

In all, THE BATMAN is a fine serial from Columbia Pictures and ranks among its top ten both in terms of box office and critical reception.

So congratulations on your screen debut 75 years ago today!

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► Roy Harper

Arsenal is the current vigilante identity of Roy Harper, Green Arrow's ward and former sidekick. He has also been known as Speedy and Red Arrow during his long career. Though Arsenal has no superpowers, his accuracy with projectiles is equaled only by his mentor.

The boy who would become Arsenal was born Roy Harper, Jr.- the son of a forest ranger. Roy states that he "never knew his mother" and in fact does not even know her name. Roy Harper Sr. raised the child on his own for some time. Unfortunately, Roy, Sr. died while saving members of a Navajo reservation during a major fire when his son was barely two years old. The shaman of the reservation, Brave Bow, raised young Harper in gratitude for Roy, Sr.'s sacrifice. Under Brave Bow's care Roy Harper was raised as a traditional Navajo and treated as a member of the 'Tachini' tribe.

Brave Bow recognized in Harper an early talent for archery, and he was trained in that skill throughout his time on the reservation. With few friends and a lot of time on his hands, Harper practiced extensively, eventually developing the skill of someone twice his age.

After Green Arrow's public debut, Harper developed an immediate hero worship and followed the hero's exploits avidly. When Green Arrow visited the reservation in order to judge an archery contest Harper was participating in, eager Roy did his best to impress his hero, and succeeded in doing so. However, in the final elimination of the tournament Harper was given a magnetized arrow and missed his last shot. When he helped to stop a robber by quickly drawing and firing an arrow, Green Arrow noted that Harper had been "speedier" than he, and offered to take Roy in as his ward. Though publicly the two were known as Oliver Queen and Roy Harper, benefactor and foster child, in private Queen trained Harper to be his partner in crime-fighting. Roy Harper was extensively drilled in the use of both standard arrows and the trick arrows that Green Arrow had created for use in crime-fighting, and when Green Arrow judged him to be sufficiently skilled, he was presented with his own costume and the super-heroic identity of "Speedy." Shortly afterward, Brave Bow died, and Oliver Queen became the only father figure in Roy Harper's life.

After his stint with the Titans, several events occurred that made Speedy feel increasingly rootless and abandoned. His relationship with Donna Troy failed to progress past the "teenage sweetheart" stage, the Teen Titans disbanded, and Ollie Queen, the closest thing Harper had to a father, lost much of his fortune and abandoned him to travel America with Hal Jordan (the Green Lantern of Earth) and Queen's girlfriend, the Black Canary. Increasingly alone and extremely depressed, Harper developed a heroin addiction. When Green Arrow discovered his addiction, rather than give Harper support or comfort, Ollie punched him and kicked him out, leaving him homeless. He was later found by Jordan, and with the help of Black Canary and others, Harper quit cold turkey.

Though Harper quit drugs entirely, partly in order to prove his strength to Ollie Queen, the latter's actions had already driven a rift between the two that would take years to heal.

Harper worked as a counselor for teens with drug problems following his recovery, while continuing to pursue a solo career as Speedy. He also joined a re-formed Teen Titans for a time, but the team once again disbanded and Speedy was left on his own.

While counseling teenagers and working as a superhero, Harper's obvious skills as well as his personal connection to the drug underground attracted the attention of the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), a clandestine government agency largely concerned with drug trafficking and terrorism. The CBI, led by Sarge Steel, trained Harper in undercover work, as well as the use of firearms (Harper learned he was as accurate with a gun as he was with a bow and arrow.) Harper became an official CBI drug enforcement agent.

On one undercover assignment, Harper was tasked with the job of gaining the trust of the sociopathic mercenary Cheshire. Though Harper was meant to eventually turn Cheshire over to the authorities, the two fell in love and had an affair. Harper could not bring himself to turn Cheshire in, but he was concerned that his continued presence would endanger her. That worry combined with his growing misgivings over Cheshire's disregard for life caused Harper to abandon her, unaware that she was pregnant with his child.

When Harper eventually learned that he was the father of Cheshire's daughter, Lian, he teamed up with his old friend Nightwing (formerly known as Robin) to track down Cheshire and prevent her from assassinating a group of diplomats. Speedy was captured by Cheshire and poisoned but rescued by Nightwing. Cheshire escaped leaving little Lian behind, and Nightwing later brought the baby with him when he visited Roy, who was recovering in hospital, and Roy assumed the duties of a single father.

No longer a member of the CBI or the Titans, and still estranged from Oliver Queen, Harper struggled for some time to find his place in the world. For a time, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he attempted a career as a private investigator. Though he assisted the latest incarnation of the Titans on several occasions, he declined to rejoin as a full member. Eventually, he resumed his working relationship with the CBI and then its successor organization Checkmate.

During this time, Speedy's old friends in the Titans were going through a crisis of their own. After being hunted by the Wildebeest Society, led by Jericho, the team had been shattered and reformed. The Titans Tower, their headquarters, was destroyed, and the Titans were rootless and mistrusted by the American government. After making a deal with Harper's employer, Sarge Steel, to become officially supervised and sanctioned by the US Government, Nightwing voluntarily stepped down as leader. The obvious choice to fill the vacuum was Roy Harper, who had connections to both the Titans and the Federal government. Availing himself of Steve Dayton's technology, Harper decided at this point to abandon his identity as Speedy and become Arsenal. Now no longer simply using a bow and arrows, Arsenal's high-tech costume gave him several devices to use for crime-fighting. He would soon abandon his original Arsenal costume in favor of a more streamlined one, but retained his new codename and leadership of the Titans. Unfortunately, the team suffered from a lack of commitment from its various members, and was dissolved yet again.

Arsenal took this opportunity to re-open a dialog with his mentor, Green Arrow. The two managed to forgive one another and bury their past differences, but the reconciliation was short-lived, as Oliver Queen died in an airplane explosion shortly afterward.

Arsenal later came into conflict with Vandal Savage. Savage had discovered that both Roy Harper and his daughter Lian were his descendants, and thus, their organs were suitable for him to harvest to prolong his life.

Arsenal was able to save his daughter from Savage. After this ordeal, he adopted a new look to reflect his Navajo heritage. Shortly after, the original five Titans decided to form yet another incarnation of the team. Arsenal served as a full-time member on the team, and chose to reside at the new Titans Tower with his daughter, Lian. He hired Rose Wilson to be Lian's nanny, and also attempted an adult relationship with Donna Troy, but broke it off when it became clear that Troy was dealing with an identity crisis of her own. Arsenal, who by that point had established a reputation as something of a "ladies' man," went back to his philandering ways.

At roughly the same time, Oliver Queen reappeared, having been resurrected earlier by Hal Jordan (in his identity of Parallax). After Queen sorted out his own issues, he and Harper's friendship renewed.

When a mysterious conglomerate known as Optitron offered to sponsor the Titans and Young Justice, members of both teams encountered a cybernetic girl from the future (known as Indigo) at their complex. The android attacked both teams and disabled nearly half of the group. Those members who could teamed up to track down Indigo, but instead encountered a rogue Superman robot that Indigo had somehow reactivated. The Superman robot made quick work of Lilith, killing her by snapping her neck, and then killed Donna Troy with a heat vision blast to her chest. Though Indigo returned to shut down the Superman Android, the rest of the Titans and Young Justice were left to mourn their fallen friends. Once again, the Titans parted ways.

Following Bruce Wayne's death in Final Crisis, Roy returned to the team after discovering that Ollie and his splinter Justice League have been hunting down and torturing criminals. After Ollie and Hal Jordan inform the JLA that the murderous supervillain Prometheus is planning a massive attack on the world's superheroes, the two Leagues agree to put aside their differences and join forces. Roy vouches for Batwoman's qualifications when she contacts the team, telling them that Dick has informed him of her skills. Roy briefly leaves to call Lian and Mia to wish them goodnight, only to return to the meeting room a few minutes later, savagely beaten and missing an arm. He collapses and goes into shock as the Leaguers desperately try to keep him alive. The person responsible is revealed to be Prometheus who then destroys Star City using a massive teleporter.

Cybernetic Enhancement

Archery: Roy is a marksman of incredible accuracy. He is extremely adept at the use of the bow and arrow. Vixen once "absorbed" Roy's archery ability during training practice and was able to hit the bulls-eye of a standard target from 200 meters away.

Firearms: Roy is a master marksman and is highly skilled with firearms and various other ranged weapons.

Martial Arts: Roy has been trained by Black Canary and Oliver Queen, both masters of a variety of martial arts, the former being one of the most skilled martial artists on the planet. Red Arrow has also been tutored throughout his life by Hal Jordan, a skilled boxer and regularly sparred with Nightwing.

Moo Gi Gong

Stick Fighting: Roy has shown to be skilled in stick fighting, as shown during his time as Arsenal, when he carried two eskrima sticks as one of his many weapons.

Investigation: Roy possesses keen analytic skills and deductive ability.

Music: Roy used to be drummer for the band Great Frog, while still a member of the Teen Titans.

Throwing: Roy is highly skilled in the use of throwing weapons, and has used Bolas, balls, knives and other various weapons and hurled them with amazing accuracy.

Weaponry: Master of Moo Gi Gong. Roy is extremely proficient with a wide array of weaponry. He can take virtually any object and use it in combat as an effective weapon.

Drug Addiction: Roy has battled with drug addiction throughout his career. He originally became addicted to heroin but kicked the habit. Years later, Deathstroke secretly got the relapsed Roy addicted to a new high called Bliss via Cheshire when he joined Titans.

Harper has a Navajo tattoo band around his right bicep, as well as six bullet wound scars on his chest and a surgical scar running the length of his sternum.

Roy stated that he was twenty-two when Lian turned one. Lian's tombstone gives the dates 2004-2009. This would mean Roy was born in 1982 or 1983. Roy also states that he and Dick are the same age.

Roy mentioned that the part he enjoyed most about the holidays was volunteering at soup kitchen. It was here one year that he encountered a reformed Bromwell Stikk. He also noted that Cheshire would normally contact him before Christmas so she could spend it with Lian.

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