You'd think someone would have thought of it before. Take a bunch of super villains with a grudge against the Man of Steel, get them together and have them team up against their enemy. By sheer numbers alone it should be a successful strategy.
But it wasn't until Morgan Edge, newly escaped from prison and making his move to regain control of Intergang, decided to put it together that the Superman Revenge Squad was born.
Edge recruited some decent heavies to be a part of his first Squad: Maxima, ruler of the planet Almerac, whose desire to become Superman's consort the
Man of Steel had previously rejected--multiple times; Misa, a techno-whiz who could create all sorts of havoc in Metropolis by pulling devices out of her
bag of tricks; Riot, a petty criminal with the unusual ability to split into multiple versions of himself when hit hard enough; Anomaly, who could absorb the
characteristics of whatever kind of material he happened to touch; and Barrage, a criminal with a right arm made of a cannon--and a serious grudge against
Maggie Sawyer of the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit.
Edge called these criminals together by promising them different rewards, and charged them with eliminating Superman, which all of them were happy enough
to do. Unfortunately, as the saying goes there is no honor among thieves, and very little cooperation either. Although they had the Last Son of Krypton on
the ropes for a little while, soon enough their individual natures took over and their victory degenerated into petty squabbling. When they all realized
that they had been promised different rewards, their partnership dissolved.
Not that it mattered to Edge. He had orchestrated his Squad in such a way that everyoe thought Lex Luthor had to be behind it
all, which left Edge free to sign up a second version of the Revenge Squad, this time using Barrage, the Parasite, and Rock, a criminal hard as his name who
was out for one thing only--the death of Lex Luthor. Unfortunately, this second version of the Revenge Squad, although more able to focus on the task at
hand, was just as successful as the first.
Back to the Gallery.