Source: screenrant.com
5. Captain Boomerang
Shut up, Captain Boomerang is awesome.
Yeah, I said it. He once tied Flash to a giant boomerang with the aim of shooting him into space, hoping the boomerang would eventually come back and land in the ocean. That’s amazing. Denying the greatness of someone like Captain Boomerang is to deny decades of great comic books.
Boomerang is a great example of a silver age villain turned into a real character by the bronze age Suicide Squad comics. George Harkness started supervillaining when his career as a mascot for a boomerang toy company failed. That is one hundred percent true. After a long time as a mid-tier Flash villain, Harkness found his place as the vaguely racist annoying comic relief of the Squad. But every team needs one of those.
When I broke down Identity Crisis, I didn’t really talk about Captain Boomerang, but I feel that killing him off in the manner they did was incredibly disrespectful for the era of comics he represents. Plus, c’mon, giant boomerang? How do you not like that?
