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CRIMSON COWL |
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My name is Justine Hammer, and I am the Crimson Cowl. I first appeared in Thunderbolts#3 as the head of a new version of the Masters of Evil. My base of operations is the county of Symkaria, home of Silver Sable. |
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My father was Justin Hammer, a multimillionaire criminal industrialist who manufactured weapons and financed super-criminals in exchange for fifty percent of their profits. My father is dead now, suspended in a block of ice that is currently floating in space.
Being the daughter of such a man, you would think that I have had a life of luxury and happiness. That is not the case. Since I was born female and not male, my father demanded more of me than he would demand from a son. He forced me to earn my keep...to prove that I deserved to be among the elite. But I defied him. I assumed the mantle of the Crimson Cowl and created a new Masters of Evil so that I could use the superhumans of the world to accumulate physical power and mass wealth and influence the entire world. Now, with my father dead, I have inherited his fortune, and I will use it to fulfill all of my goals...to achieve a greatness that my father never thought I would ever accomplish.
Along with my intelligence, my weapon of choice is my prehensile cloak, which I use to teleport, fly, and attack. |
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In Thunderbolts#3, I made my first move to obtain my goals. I sent my Masters of Evil to confiscate a warehouse of illegal goods from a foolish mob boss who dared oppose my dream. Tiger Shark, Man-Killer, Flying Tiger, Klaw, and Cyclone were the agents I chose to perform this task. I was opposed by the Black Widow and the Thunderbolts, who were made up of the former members of the previous Masters of Evil team that existed before mine. This was but the first of many times that the Thunderbolts got in my way. |
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Another such occasion occurred in Thunderbolts#18-20 when my Masters of Evil tried to rob the Western Currency Facility in Forth Worth, Texas. I had also tried to offer the Thunderbolts a place on my team, but they refused me and my generous deal. These cretins also opposed me in Thunderbolts#24-25 when I tried to use a Weather Modulator to blackmail the United Nations for one trillion dollars. They opposed me one final time in Thunderbolts#67 and 69 when I tried to take total control of all the super-villains that my father had been in contact with over the years, using a biotoxin that he had implanted inside of their bodies. I was completely humiliated when one of my former agents, Skein (formerly called Gypsy Moth), used her powers of psychokenetic fabric manipulation to use my own costume and cloak to defeat me. Everyone now thinks that I am beaten, but I will never be truly defeated as long as I am alive, something that my father proved time and time again to all of his enemies until the moment of his death.
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