Agent Liberty

AGENT LIBERTY

Real Name: Benjamin Lockwood

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Soldier

Group Affiliation: formerly CIA, Sons of Liberty, Justice League America

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Superman II #60 (October, 1991)

Powers: Agent Liberty was a master of espionage, the martial arts, and marksmanship. His battlesuit was made of a flexible but extremely resilient fabric. His gauntlets could generate protective force shields, and the gloves also concealed six-inch razor-sharp blades. Agent Liberty was equipped with a jetpack, and he usually carried one or more of a variety of side arms.

History: Ben Lockwood was part of a CIA field team sent to a Middle Eastern nation on a hostage rescue mission. Lockwood was forced to hide out in mountainous terrain when the mission fell apart and his partners were captured by a hostile mob. After many months he fled back to the United States. Not knowing where else to turn he looked up Jay Harriman, his former Bureau Chief. Harriman had long since left the CIA, becoming a member of a secret radical organization known as the Sons of Liberty. He saw Lockwood as the perfect special operative, and equipped him with state-of-the-art battle gear. Lockwood's codename would become Agent Liberty. His first mission was in Metropolis, and Agent Liberty intervened when crime boss Louis Gillespe threatened the life of reporter Clark Kent. Soon after he helped Superman take down the notorious Intergang.

(Action Comics #675, Adventures of Superman #488, 489, Superman vol. 2 #65, 66, Superman: The Man of Steel #10) - During the "Panic in the Sky," Agent Liberty was part of Superman's army of super heroes recruited to battle Brainiac.

Things turned bad for the Sons of Liberty when their founder Charles Holcroft was captured by Superman and scheduled to testify before a senate committee. Kramer kidnaped Senator Peter Ross's fiancee and threatened to kill her if Ross didn't smuggle a gun into the hearing and kill Holcroft before he could testify. When Ross couldn't go through with it, Agent Liberty, already in the hearing room posing as a Secret Service agent, drew the gun from Ross's briefcase and shot Holcroft. Liberty escaped, but he began to question his loyalty to the Sons of Liberty. He was then ordered to assassinate Peter Ross, but refused. After Agent Liberty discovered evidence of other assassinations carried out by the Sons of Liberty he became enraged and murdered Jay Harriman. He then gathered all the information he had on the Sons of Liberty, and after deleting his name from their files, sent them to Clark Kent.

(Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1) - When the Society broke out virtually every incarcerated supervillain around the world Oracle sent Agent Liberty and a number of other heroes to quell the breakout at Blackgate, but a number of villains got past the heroes.

Comments: Created by Dan Jurgens

Agent Liberty received a profile in The DC Comics Encyclopedia.