The Angel
The Angel is a comic book character that first appeared in Marvel Comics #1
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The Golden Age hero that had his debut in Marvel Comics #1 from Timely Comics. A costumed detective who had the "mystic cape of Mercury" that allowed him to fly.
History
Young Thomas Halloway
Thomas' life changed in 1938. He was caring for an elderly man, who had he diagnosed as suffering from some kind of senile delirium. Despite this, he enjoyed hearing the old man's wild tales of how he had traveled to the future and experienced the age of fantastic heroes that was still to come. It was not until after the man passed away in his sleep that Thomas realized who he had been talking to all this time. It was the Matt Hawk otherwise known as the Two-Gun Kid from the westerns he read as a child. Halloway was left with Hawk's famous mask and his two guns as a gift, with a note saying it was from," One hero to another". Thomas would not understand or comprehend what it meant until later.
"One hero to another"
Thomas was present when the original Human Torch (Jim Hammond) broke free from his concrete prison and accidentally set fire to New York City. Riots and looting ensued all around him, and he found himself leaping into action without thinking. He did what he could to protect who he could. When it was all over, he returned home to reflect on Matt Hawk's final message to him.
The Avenging Angel
Rise of the Angel
Using Matt Hawk's mask, Thomas fashioned his own costumed identity. He based the costume off a name he earned while living in prison, the Angel. He earned this name by clearing a man who was on death row. He was surprised to see other costumed heroes starting to appear, but welcomed it so much that he found himself feeling a kinship with them. When he that the Phantom Bullet was dead, he mourned as though he had lost a brother. At one point Halloway would save a 4,000 year old lady, and was giving the "Cape of Mercury" as an award for the deed.
Hero of the Golden Age
Halloway worked with government intelligence to counter the operations of Axis spies during World War Two. At some point, he abandoned the mask and allowed his identity to be publicly known. He would eventually leave the home front along with other heroes to aid in the final war effort to bring down the Third Reich.
His activities did not end with World War II. Halloway would join the All Winners Squad and continued on for years. Eventually he banded with other heroes to form the V-Battalion. Halloway was a founding member of their Penance Council, but he left the group after some years to retire from action, after a innocent bystander was killed in a solo mission.
Scourge of the Underworld
For reasons unknown, Halloway's ideals and views of justice took a harsh turn in his old age. He used his accumulated wealth and influence to found a secret organization dedicated to the execution of criminals under the guise of Scourge. He oversaw a whole legion of assassins, who all pretended to be this one masked man.
After years in this pursuit, the truth about Scourge and his own involvement were undercover by U.S. Agent. However, there was no evidence for U.S. Agent to actually have Halloway convicted of anything to do with Scourge, and so he went free. Two Scourges later appeared, but neither of these men had anything to do with Thomas Halloway. This fact would suggest he did not rebuild his Scourge organization after being discovered by U.S. Agent.
Simon Halloway
He is the brother of Thomas, who also assumed the Angel identity as a substitute for his brother. He later would become homeless and was murdered by Zietgeist. This could be speculated as the reason Thomas started the Scourge Organization.
| Super Name: | The Angel |
| Real Name: | Thomas Halloway |
| Aliases: |
Thomas Halloway Simon Halloway Doctor Thomas Halloway |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | Marvel Comics #1 |
| Appears in: | 129 issues |
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| Died: |
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