#4145: Wildcat

WILDCAT SUPER POWERS (McFARLANE) “In 1941, boxer Ted Grant was framed for murder and on the run when a comic book inspired him to don a costume and track down the real killer. As Wildcat, Ted cleared his name and, loving the double life, kept going.” Ted Grant’s adoption of the Wildcat identity wasn’t all that removed from most costumed heroes of the Golden Age. Guy has run-in with crime, wants to solve crime, puts on mask and adopts vaguely-themed supranym. He didn’t really have any notable gimmicks, aside from being a boxer, which did at least make more sense for the line to crime fighting career than the myriad of scientists and doctors that got into it most frequently in the Golden Age. When Earths 1 and 2 merged following Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wildcat’s background as a boxer and as one of the old guard super heroes led to him being the guy that trained a lot of the current generation of heroes, which was a pretty good touch, and gave him a solid footing and connection to the…