TRAPPER

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human

Occupation: Trapper, criminal

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Nome

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City, 1940s era

First Appearance: Green Lantern I #37 (March-April, 1949)

Powers: Trapper was an expert outdoorsman, adept in wilderness survival skills and constructing booby traps.

History: (Green Lantern I #37) - Green Lantern gave a radio public service announcement about crime becoming a thing of the past thanks to modern police methods. Mountain man Trapper listened to the broadcast in the backwoods, and decided the solution to foiling modern crimefighting techniques was to commit crimes with his wilderness skills. He used a fishing rod to abduct bank messenger Mack and take his money, and when Budd, the police officer watching him came to the rescue he ran straight into an explosive boobytrap. Trapper continued his crime wave throughout Gotham while Green Lantern visited Budd in the hospital and promised to rescue Mack. GL caught up to the Trapper after he forced an armored truck to stop with fallen lampposts and then blew it up with explosives. Trapper knocked out GL with his wooden axe handle and dragged him into the sewers where he was keeping Mack. He intended to drown them both, and after tying up GL threw him into the water. GL managed to free himself and defeated Trapper in a slugfest, sending him to jail.

Comments: Created by John Broome & Irwin Hasen.