Julio Lopez

JULIO LOPEZ

Real Name: Julio Lopez

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Adventurer, physician

Group Affiliation: MASK

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Boulder Hill

First Appearance: MASK I #2 (January, 1986)

Powers: Julio Lopez was an expert cryptographer and rode Dragonfly, a dune buggy that could transform into a jet. His Streamer mask shot an adhesive glue.

History: (MASK I #2, 3) - 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. When VENOM kidnapped MASK leader Matt Trakker's son Scott and his robot friend T-Bob Trakker and Sato flew to Egypt to meet Egyptologist Prof. Ginsburg because VENOM left behind graffiti of Anubis. Miles Mayhem, leader of VENOM, dressed as Anubis, alongside Rax, Dagger and Bruno Sheppard, who were disguised as mummies, ambushed Prof. Ginsburg in a temple dedicated to Anubis, and put him in a cell alongside T-Bob and Scott. They then robbed the Cairo Museum, but were driven away by Trakker and Sato. Duane Kennedy contacted Matt, telling him he was sending MASK's new recruit Nash Gorey to assist in finding Scott, although Matt was wary of someone inexperienced joining in on such a sensitive mission. Matt called in Hondo, Jacques LeFleur and Julio Lopez to join in on the mission. They traveled to the temple of Anubis where Ginsberg was last seen, but were ambushed by VENOM. During the firefight Gorey, who was providing cover, shot Lopez' Dragonfly jet, and apologized for the friendly fire, but it allowed Miles to run into the temple with his goons. When MASK pursued, with Gorey covering the entrance, they fell through a trap door. In the confrontation with VENOM, MASK prevailed, but Miles caused a cave-in that allowed his team to escape. MASK found Scott, T-Bob and Ginsburg's cage and freed them, but Gorey, actually a double-agent of VENOM, used his Outlaw tanker rig to seal the temple with a boulder.- Hondo used his Blaster mask to free his team, and an angry Matt called up Duane to tell them they'd been infiltrated by Venom. Duane promised him heads would roll, but this Duane was an imposter; the real Duane had been kidnapped after being sent a balloon filled with sleeping gas just like Scott.

(MASK I #4) - Gorey stole MASK's missile-defense satellite and locked Alex and Buddy in a MASK holding cell. 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.

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