Firebug (DC)
Firebug is the name used by several characters in the DCUniverse.
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Firebug (Joe Rigger)
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Pre-Crisis
Joe Rigger was a male human who was born on Earth in the modern age. By adulthood, he came to be a career soldier and demolitions expert where Joseph Rigger returned to his home of Gotham City when his entire family was killed in separate building-related accidents over a three-week span. His sister was poisoned by lead paint, his father fell through a rotted stairway, and his mother had a heart attack in a stalled elevator. His sanity was severely affected, and he blamed the buildings themselves for his families’ death. He vowed that those buildings would never kill again, and designed a costume to become the Firebug, setting out to burn those buildings to the ground. He burned two of the buildings to the ground, alerting the fire department beforehand so no one would perish in the blazes. He set a fire-bomb in the Gotham State Building, but Batman had deduced both his identity and final target and disarmed the bomb. Batman confronted him atop the building, and Firebug reacted by deactivating his costume’s safety features and setting himself on fire. In the ensuing battle Firebug fell from the building and his costume exploded. (Batman v1 #318)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Firebug (Harlan Combs)
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Firebug (Unknown)
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Overview
Notes
- The concept of the Firebug was created by Len Wein and Irv Novick where it made its first appearance in Batman v1 #318 (December, 1979).
Alternate Versions
- In Wow Comics v1 #44 (1946), an alternate unrelated character called Firebug appeared as an inhabitant in Fawcett Comics where he resided in the reality designated as Earth-S in the Multiverse. The arsonist felt like he answered a higher calling, burning the wickedness out of people. Mister Scarlet and Pinky captured him at the scene of a crimem and at his trial, he was deemed criminally insane. It did not stop him; he burned down the asylum, killing all patients. He then set out to murder the jurors of his court case, feeling they had wronged him and were thus wicked. After killing three, he was stopped by Mister Scarlet and Pinky. During the struggle, he was doused in gasoline, which caught fire and killed him.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Batman v1: (1979)
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