Brad Turner

BRAD TURNER

Real Name: Brad Turner

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Musician, adventurer

Group Affiliation: MASK

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Boulder Hill

First Appearance: MASK special insert in the September, 1985 DC Comics, such as Action Comics I #573

Powers: Brad Turner rode the Condor, a motorcycle that could transform into a helicopter. His Hocus Pocus mask cast holographic projections.

History: (MASK special insert) - MASK worked with Duane Kennedy of the P.N.A. (Peaceful Nations Alliance) to counter Contra-World, who sought to undermine world order with their agents of VENOM. Kennedy contacted MASK's leader Matt Trakker when VENOM stole a molecular-dissembler from P.N.A.'s sub-atomics lab division. The dissembler had only one shot, so Kennedy wanted MASK to find out who or what VENOM would target with it and stop them. Miles Mayhem announced that he'd stormed Mount Rushmore, taking staff and visitors hostage, and threatened to destroy the monument unless Matt Trakker surrendered himself to him. Matt's son Scott was on a field trip to Rushmore, and Miles promised he'd perish along with Rushmore. Matt and Bruce Sato arrived at Rushmore, surrendering to Miles and his lackeys Sly Rax and Cliff Dagger, but Miles went against his word, saying he was still going to destroy Rushmore. MASK arrived to save their leader, with Brad Turner using his helicopter to fire on VENOM, forcing them to flee. Miles shot the dissembler before retreating in his Switchblade jet, but Brad used his Hocus Pocus mask to create an illusion of Rushmore, so Miles ended up hitting the hologram and not the monument.

(MASK I #1) - Matt Trakker took his son and T-Bob to the amusement park, where Scott bought a snake shaped balloon. An emergency signal from Duane Kennedy came in, so Matt told Scott he'd have to cut their vacation short and asked him to return to their hotel room. Kennedy told Matt that all the gold in Fort Knox had mysteriously disappeared, and asked him to investigate. Matt contacted Sato, Turner and Hayes, telling them to meet him at Fort Knox, and they discovered that VENOM had drilled into Knox using their Mole vehicle, stole the gold and put down quick-drying cement in an attempt to cover up their activities. They caught up to the Mole and recovered the gold, but the theft was meant as a distraction by VENOM while they kidnapped Matt's son Scott. The vendor Scott had bought his balloon from was actually a VENOM agent, and it was filled with sleeping gas, so he was unable to resist when Miles came for him. Matt returned to his hotel to find Scott and T-Bob missing and a picture of Anubis painted on the wall.

(MASK I #4) -VENOM kidnapped Duane Kennedy, and the imposter Duane called Scott Trakker reporting that VENOM had stolen a number of valuable paintings from the Louvre. Scott wanted to be at the opening of the P.N.A.'s missile-defense, but the false Duane insisted he and his team go to France. His Spectrum mask revealed that the paintings hadn't been stolen, VENOM had only installed lighting that made the paintings invisible to the naked eye. While MASK was preoccupied VENOM agents Vanessa Warfield, Floyd Malloy and Sly Rax knocked out the NASA astronauts set to put the final satellite in place for the P.N.A. defense system and replaced it with a VENOM satellite armed with a particle death-ray. Alex and Buddy set a fire in their cell, setting off the MASK computer system, which unlocked the holding cell in case of an emergency, and brought Matt up to spread. When President Regan pushed a computer console to demonstrate the defense-system it activated VENOM's satellite, calling down a death ray that would continue firing until it hit nuclear storehouses in the Midwest. VENOM looted Las Vegas casinos as the city was being evacuated, but MASK responded, capturing them all. Alex Sector hacked into the VENOM satellite, shutting it down, and the imposter Duane Kennedy was arrested by the P.N.A.. Matt was proud of his team, but worried that the delay in implementing the space missile prevention program would lead to continued tensions in the world that could end in nuclear war.

Comments: Created by Kenner.

Brad Turner was a character from the MASK toy line and cartoons. This entry covers only his DC appearances.

The MASK special insert was in Action Comics I #573, Batman I #387, Batman and the Outsiders I #27, Blue Devil #16, Green Lantern II #192, Justice League of America I #242, Superman I #411, Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #327, Tales of the Teen Titans #57 and World's Finest Comics #319.