Foil

FOIL

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human

Occupation: Professional criminal

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: NYC, NY, 1940s era

First Appearance: Flash Comics #87 (September, 1947)

Powers: The Foil was a vicious criminal armed with a fencing foil.

History: (Flash Comics #87) - Ruthless criminal the Foil and his gang planned a daring escape from prison to recover the $50,000 in loot he had hidden. The guards started firing on them, and Foil, believing his underling Lefty to be a snitch, stabbed him with his fencing foil. A helicopter sped them away from the prison, but the warden had learned about the escape beforehand and allowed it so Hawkman and Hawkgirl could follow him and find where his loot was stashed. Foil spotted the duo and squirted oil from the copter at her, grounding the hero. She told Hawkman to go on without her while she cleaned off her wings. Hawkman eavesdropped on Foil at his hideout, and learned that Lefty was the only one who knew where the loot was. Foil told his men they’d have to break back into prison and get Lefty’s map from the morgue. Hawkman confronted Foil and his men at the prison, capturing the henchmen. Foil got the map and fled through the prison’s sewer system, setting off explosives so Hawkman couldn’t follow him. Hawkgirl arrived at the scene, believing Hawkman had died in the explosion. She mourned, but Hawkman was alive, having been blasted to the roof. The sewer system empties out into an empty beach, and the Hawks found Foil couldn’t escape the drainage pipe, and was in danger of drowning. They couldn’t let anyone, not even a criminal, die on their watch and freed him, rushing him to the prison hospital.

Comments: Created by Robert Kanigher & Everette Raymond Kinstler.

In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths DCU Foil lived on Earth-2.