SKY PIRATE

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Pirate

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City, 1940s era

First Appearance: Green Lantern I #27 (August-September, 1947)

Powers: Sky Pirate was armed with a cutlass and a flintlock pistol that shot sleeping gas as well as bullets. His mode of transport was the Flying Dutchman, a zeppelin painted to look like a pirate ship, and armed with cloud-jets that could effect getaways.

History: (Green Lantern I #27) - The Sky Pirate took up a life of crime to rule the skies as a modern buccaneer. He and his pirate gang boarded a penthouse roof to rob the socialites present, but Green Lantern and his sidekick Doiby Dickles spotted his zeppelin and investigated. Sky Pirate knocked them out with sleeping gas, and wanting to have some fun disposing of them he tied them to the hands of a clocktower. The heroes freed themselves, but were unable to prevent Sky Pirate from kidnapping millionaire skinflint Jasper. GL flew to his zeppelin, so Sky Pirate tossed Jasper overboard, forcing the mysteryman to save him and let them get away. GL found his mountaintop headquarters, and defeated his men. Sky Pirate took the mountain elevator to escape, but GL used his power ring to reverse it's direction, sending him to the base of the mountain. Sky Pirate revealed himself as a terraphobe, terrified of being on the ground, and he huddled into a mass, telling GL he was defeated.

Comments: Created by John Broome & Howard Purcell.