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- | ====== Air Wave (Earth-1) ====== | ||
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- | Larry Jordan was the Kings County district attorney serving Brooklyn, New York, from June, 1960, until his death in January, 1970. | ||
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- | By 1959, Larry Jordan was an assistant district attorney for Kings County (Brooklyn, New York), working for District Attorney Desmond Cole. | ||
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- | In December, 1959, Larry Jordan becomes Air Wave to save District Attorney Desmond Cole from Snake Scalotti' | ||
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- | In January, 1960, Air Wave battles renegade scientist Professor Gurn, former member of Snake Scalotti' | ||
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- | In April, 1960, Air Wave adopts as his sidekick a parrot he calls Static. [Detective Comics #64] | ||
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- | In May, 1960, Air Wave battles Professor Gurn once more, who has donned a robotic suit to become Machine Man. [Detective Comics #65] | ||
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- | Larry Jordan' | ||
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- | Another friend of Larry' | ||
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- | Larry was also a friend of Jeff Van Pelt of the wealthy Van Pelt family, before Jeff died in the Battle of Saipan in 1944. ["Dead Men Can Tell Tales," | ||
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- | Larry is an ardent boxing fan [Detective Comics #73]. | ||
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- | In November, 1961, Air Wave helped politician Jim Johnson get elected as Mayor of New York City in order to keep his rival, the crooked Oscar Rainey, from gaining office. Air Wave used his special radio transceiver to broadcast Johnson' | ||
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- | Larry Jordan went to college with Shortie Long, who is now a science professor at a university in New York City. [Detective Comics #87] | ||
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- | Air Wave was once injured by a ricocheting bullet fired by a nervous rookie police officer, but he apparently suffered no serious injuries. [Detective Comics #87] | ||
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- | Air Wave had a fan club of youngsters from a Brooklyn slum called the Air Wave Fan Club. [Detective Comics #90] | ||
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- | As a young man, Larry Jordan joined the U.S. Army as an enlisted soldier to go to the Korean War, but it is possible that he saw no action. While there, he once saw an injured soldier named John Colebaugh receive a silver plate in his skull at the hospital. //Note: This story supposedly shows Larry Jordan as a soldier during World War II, but if this were the case for the Earth-2 Larry Jordan, there' | ||
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- | Air Wave's foes were mostly gangsters and small-time criminals, as well as spies from behind the Iron Curtain. //Note: In the original stories, all spies were from Nazi Germany, but since Air Wave's adventures take place on Earth-1' | ||
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- | Larry Jordan had four brothers: Judge Jeremiah Jordan of Coastville, born in 1906, father of Jerry Jordan, Jr. and grandfather of Steven Jordan (first appearance in Green Lantern #22); Titus Thomas Jordan of Coastville, born in 1908, a millionaire who had no children (first appearance in Green Lantern #44); Joe Jordan, born in 1916, who ran the Jordan Circus, was the father of Douglas Buddy Jordan, and married a woman from Tennessee (first and only appearance in Action Comics #7); and Martin Jordan of Coastville, born in 1920, who was a pilot and the father of Jack Jordan, Hal Jordan, and Jim Jordan. Larry Jordan, born in 1926, was the youngest son in the family. | ||
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- | Larry Jordan had five nephews (Jack, Hal, Jim, Jerry, and Douglas), three grand-nephews (Jason and Howard) and one grand-niece (Jennifer). Jack Jordan, son of Martin Jordan, followed in his uncle Larry' | ||
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- | Larry Jordan married Helen and had a son named Harold, whom he named after his favorite nephew, Hal Jordan (Harold first appeared in Green Lantern #100, while Helen first appeared in DC Comics Presents #41). | ||