GOLD STAR

Real Name: Ernest Widdle

Class: Extraterrestrial

Occupation: Superhero

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: unnamed father, Rasputin Widdle (Bludhound, brother, deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Harmony

First Appearance: Lobo II #5 (May, 1994)

Powers: Gold Star possessed the powers of flight, superhuman strength, invulnerability, hearing and telescopic vision. He could radiate rectitude that made targets regret their wrongdoings.

History: (Lobo II #5) - A philosopher researching good and evil performed an experiment on his twins, raising Ernest Widdle with love and instilling in him a strong sense of morality, while his brother Rasputin was sent off to be brutalized by slavers. Ernest grew up to be the whitebread superhero Gold Star.He virtually eliminated crime on the planet Harmony and set up Gold Star Rehab to reprogram the few remaining n'er-do-wells. He also rewarded good behavior from citizens like helping old ladies cross the street by giving them gold stars. His brother grew up to be the psychotic murderer Bludhound, and when he found he was dying of Rob's Disease he traveled to harmony to find his long-lost twin. Lobo pursued him for the bounty on his head, and Gold Star chastised them for fighting. Bludhound revealed his identity to Gold Star, who got all teary, but Bludhound wanted to find him to kill him. Lobo wasn't concerned with their family issues and used grenades to take Gold Star out of the situation before finishing his fight with Bludhound, whose disease finally claimed him. Gold Star believed he could have helped his brother and blamed Lobo for his dead. he vowed to find Lobo and smack his wrist hard.

(Lobo: Fragtastic Voyage #1) - Folowers of Mahatma Scarfe hired Goldstar to save the holy man’s life. The Mahatma was dying froma blood clot in the brain, and his death would let the Krokodilos invade the Byo-System. The Krokodilos only held off because of Mahatma’s skills in diplomacy and his knowledge of the exploding numbers, using the basics of mathematics to convert numbers into explosions. Goldstar was shrunk down and put into a miniaturized ship, along with shipmates Vera Shapely and Lobo, and given a plan to blast out the blood clot. Lobo annoyed his teammates by pushing himself on Vera and using the ship’s weapons to destroy the already ill Mahatma’s immune system. The Krokodilos wanted the numbers and sent their own miniature ship into Mahatma’s bloodstream, and the extradimensional Liliputans, who gave Scarfe the exploding numbers, sent their own ship, determined to see Scarfe die rather than have the numbers fall into the wrong hands. Lobo destroyed the Krokodilos and rended the Lilliputans apart with his hands and teeth, but only after they found the part of the comatose Mahatma’s brain that held the exploding numbers. In thew battle the Liliputans used a miniaturization ray to further shrink down Goldstar and Vera. Lobo took too long inside the Mahatma, and returned to normal size inside Scarfe’s brain, killing him. Lobo told Mahatma’s followers not to worry, that he now had the numbers, but while calculating how much he could sell the secret for he accidentally created a catastrophic explosion that wiped out all of the Byo-System and the nearby Krodilos invading force. Goldstar and Vera survived in a piece of Mahatma’s brain that embedded itself inside Lobo’s ear.

Comments: Created by Alan Grant & Val Semeiks

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