The birthday candles are lit today for DC's answer to Rick Jones. Put your fingers together for...Snapper Carr. Lucas Carr gained the nickname Snapper due to his unrelenting habit of snapping like a coffe shop beatnik in damn near any situation. He earned a place as the Justice League of America's mascot in his first appearance, The Brave and the Bold #28 (Feb,1960) by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. You see he gave the League a huge clue in how to defeat their foe Starro, an alien starfish, when he applied lime to his front lawn. From that dynamic start, Snapper would hang out with the JLA for years, until he betrayed the location of the team's original cave HQ to the Joker!
Snapper would later redeem himself, but during the Invasion crossover he would be kidnapped by the alien Dominators. Though no amount of lime could set Carr free, the Dominators blew it when they gave him the power to teleport...every time he (you guessed it) snapped his fingers. He used this ability as part of a team of other altered humans dubbed the Blasters. The warrior like Khunds then (did what probably many a Leaguer secretly wished they could do) chopped off his hands! Vril Dox then gave him a hand (two of them), but his new mitts lacked the power they once had.
Carr would serve as sidekick to the android version of Hourman, den mother to Young Justice, and finally become a Checkmate agent. Recently he regained, and lost his teleportation powers. Through it all, sorry to say, I've had to resist the urge to flip old Lucas the finger.
Tomorrow, the brief life of a DC iron man...
Snapper would later redeem himself, but during the Invasion crossover he would be kidnapped by the alien Dominators. Though no amount of lime could set Carr free, the Dominators blew it when they gave him the power to teleport...every time he (you guessed it) snapped his fingers. He used this ability as part of a team of other altered humans dubbed the Blasters. The warrior like Khunds then (did what probably many a Leaguer secretly wished they could do) chopped off his hands! Vril Dox then gave him a hand (two of them), but his new mitts lacked the power they once had.
Carr would serve as sidekick to the android version of Hourman, den mother to Young Justice, and finally become a Checkmate agent. Recently he regained, and lost his teleportation powers. Through it all, sorry to say, I've had to resist the urge to flip old Lucas the finger.
Tomorrow, the brief life of a DC iron man...
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