Gregory Wolfe

GREGORY WOLFE

Real Name: Gregory Wolfe

Class: Human mutant

Occupation: Prison warden, former prosecutor

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: unnamed wife

Aliases: Maser

Base of Operations: Keystone City, Kansas, formerly St. Louis, Missouri

First Appearance: Flash: Iron Heights (2001)

Powers: Wolfe could mentally relax or tighten the muscles of others, causing relaxation or intense pain.

History: (Flash Secret Files #3) - Gregory Wolfe won fame as a prosecutor who never lost a case and was hard on crime, even if his methods of collecting evidence were suspect. After his first trial loss, the man he failed to convict was murdered, and although Wolfe was suspected no charges were filed Wolfe took the position of warden at Keystone City Penitentiary, and spent nearly 40 million dollars overhauling it into the hi-tech Iron Heights. The Heights were capable of holding metahuman criminals, and Wolfe used the prisoner Fallout to power the Heights with his radioactive energy. Wolfe kept escapes and riots to a minimum, mostly trough force and brutality.

(Flash: Iron Heights) - Murmur unleashed the frenzy virus on the population of Iron Heights but Flash and Jay Garrick cured every surviving person afflicted with frenzy an kept most of the inmates from escaping. Flash was disturbed by the inhumane conditions of Iron Heights, and gave warden Gregory Wolfe his frank impression of the Heights. Wolfe responded by using his powers to cause muscle spasms in Flash’s legs.

(Flash II #178) - Wolfe employed the Cage Factory to handle delivery of metahumans to Iron Heights. Gorilla Grodd escaped from one of the Cage Factory’s prison transports, and Flash defeated Grodd and handed him over to Wolfe. Flash urged him to send Grodd back to Gorilla City where they could properly contain him, and Wolfe responded that Gorilla City was not prepared to punish Grodd like Iron Heights was.

(Flash II #179) - Wolfe secured Gorilla Grodd’s cell when Iron Heights came under attack by a Jokerized Killer Elite. Wolfe fatally shot Deadline, sending the others fleeing. Pied Piper confessed to his parents murder and handed himself over to the police. Piper was transferred to Iron Heights, where Gregory Wolfe welcomed him back by tying him up and sending in prison guards to give him a beating.

(Flash II #180) - Flash tried to expose Gregory Wolfe’s inhumane treatment of prisoners, and brought Morillo to Iron Heights to show him that the prisoner Fallout was powering the jail. By the time they got there Fallout was gone, sent on a aytrip by Wolfe, and Wolfe warned Flash to butt out of his business.

(Flash II #181) - Fallout escaped his guards during his daytrip and unintentionally caused death and destruction in Keystone. Flash convinced him to go back to Iron Heights, and had Jerry and Tina McGee construct a cell for him that used the radiation Fallout emitted to power Iron Heights without putting Fallout in pain like his previous containment cell. Gregory Wolfe denied that Fallout had ever been a prisoner at the Heights before Flash brought him in, and Flash couldn’t prove different because Wolfe had destroyed the records of Fallout’s initial transfer to the Heights.

(Flash II #189) - Flash and Hunter Zoloman got a release warrant for Pied Piper after learning the Rogues had framed him. They served Wolfe with the papers, but when he went to free Piper he found that he’d already broken out. Wolfe told Flash that Piper was now in real trouble.

(Flash II #191) - Flash made an effort to get charges against Peek-A-Boo dropped because she committed theft in an attempt to save her father’s life. Hunter Zoloman was coming to Iron Heights to interview her, so Wolfe told the guards to made sure she was too drugged to talk about the brutality in the Heights.

(Flash II #192-194) - Hunter Zoloman came to Iron Heights to interview Peek-A-Boo, but Wolfe kept him away from her cell. Mind-controlled Gorilla City gorillas tore apart the Heights and freed the prisoners in order to find Gorilla Grodd’s cell. Flash brought Gregory and Hunter to a safe room, and then confronted an army of rogues freed by the gorillas. Gorillas attacked Gregory and Hunter, and Gregory revealed his powers to Hunter to hurt the gorillas an allow them to flee. Gorilla Grodd crippled Hunter, and Gregory was force to admit to Flash that he shouldn’t have tried to cage Grodd when the Heights were not capable of doing so. Gregory staid at Hunter’s bedside until he regained consciousness.

(Flash II #207) - Wolfe allowed Ashley Zoloman to have visits with her husband Zoom because he respected the man Zoom once was. He denied her a visit when he put the Heights under lockdown during a parade for the Flash. He warned her he never believed in rehabilitation, and thought there was no hope for Zoom to reform.

(Flash II #211) - Flash brought Grodd to Iron Heights, and Wolfe fashioned a cell for Grodd that would kill him if he tried to escape. Wolfe was concerned with Ashley Zoloman’s continued visits to Zoom, and told her she was only trying to help him out of a misplaced sense of guilt.

(Flash II #219) - Zoom escaped the Heights and Cheetah killed a number of guards, making Wolfe lament the fact that the state hadn’t approved his plans for metahuman capital punishment.

(Flash II #1/2) - Flash brought Trickster into custody and handed him over to Wolfe, but Mirror Master rescued Trickster from the Heights.

Comments: Created by Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver

Gregory Wolfe received a profile in Flash Secret Files #3.

Wolfe appeared in a dream sequence in Flash II #227.