"COWBOY" CARSON

Real Name: "Cowboy" Carson (first(?) name unrevealed)

Identity/Class: Normal human (1950s era)

Occupation: Navy fighter pilot (lieutenant (junior grade))

Group Membership: US Navy, especially crew of the USS Valley Forge aircraft carrier

Affiliations: US military forces, notably Fox Company (Marines)

Enemies: North Korean military forces

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile with US military forces around Korea, notably aboard the USS Valley Forge

First Appearance: Navy Combat#6/4 (April, 1956)

Powers/Abilities: "Cowboy" Carson is a very experienced and highly skilled pilot of the Grumman F9F Panther fighter jet, and is calmly able to steadily fly it very close to the ground. He is quick-thinking and sharp-eyed with very accurate aim for plane armaments. He has standard naval training in fighting and personal defense, as well as ship duties and maintenance.

Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Unrevealed

History:

(Navy Combat#6/4 (fb) - BTS) - Lt. "Cowboy" Carson was an experienced naval fighter pilot based on the USS Valley Forge aircraft carrier often providing ground support for US troops during the Korean War. On one mission, he was part of a squadron of eight planes that destroyed a North Korean airfield, hangar and planes. All bullets and bombs were spent on the enemy.

(Navy Combat#6/4) - The squadron left a blazing mess of the enemy base and rocketed back to their ship, but scant minutes later, Carson saw North Korean army forces hidden in tall wheat and rice field lying in wait for an ambush against US Marine troops (Fox Company). The US naval planes had no means of stopping or exposing the North Koreans using ammunition, and flying fancy circles just confused the Marines. Carson figured the wind direction and alerted his fellow pilots to follow him. Carson flew a few feet above the ground, triggering his after-burner to set fire to the dry tall wheat and rice field. The other pilots followed and the panicked Communist were flushed south to be captured by the Marines. Carson and his fellow pilots then flew back to their aircraft carrier.

Comments: .

Carson is only shown seated in the plane with just his eyes showing, so physical stats are almost impossible to determine.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
"Cowboy" Carson has no known connections to:

• CARSON, Dr. BARTHOLOMEW - neurophysicist, designed cerebra-chip, Crime-Master coerced him into implanting his thugs with it--Untold Tales of Spider-Man#23
• CARSON, DAVE "BLAZE" - @ Old West, cattle herder, later gun-ready sheriff of Red Dog, Texas--Blaze Carson#1
• CARSON, BRETT - student at District University, briefly mutated and used as pawn by Anubis--Son of Satan#6
  
• CARSON, ELSIE - team-oriented HYDRA leader and housewife--Team America#11
• CARSON, HELENA - head of Dermafree, face scarred by Mystique to force her to give information on her stolen genetic material--Mystique I#14
• CARSON, JEAN - girlfriend of Gary Gaunt, promised to stay with him to find a cure for his monstrous transformations--Mystic Comics I#9/6
• CARSON, JOHN W. "JOHNNY" - talk show host, interviewed various super-powered characters, based on real-life TV host--Amazing Spider-Man I#50
• CARSON, LEN  - @ 1970, wrote Starr the Slayer, summoned to the past and slain by Starr when he considered writing Starr's death and ending the strip--Chamber of Darkness#4/3
• CARSON, MARCELLA - part of Carson's Carnival of Traveling Wonders--Avengers I#19
• CARSON, MATT - press agent for Barney Bailey and Bailey's dinosaur circus, Vision (Aarkus) foe--Marvel Mystery Comics I#16/4
• CARSON, MITCH - S.H.I.E.L.D., overpowered by Iron Maniac, wore Pym's prototype armor, face badly burnt by O'Grady's jets--Marvel Team-Up III#21
• CARSON, Lt. PAUL - LAPD, friend of Black Widow & Daredevil--Daredevil I#87
  
• CARSON, PHILLIP - agent of Jeremy Locke, bodyguard, assistant--Elektra II#12
  
• CARSON, RICHARD - stuntman, formerly piloted Raydeen the Shogun Warrior, dated Deena--Shogun Warriors#1
• CARSON, ROSELLA - @ 16th Century, vamped by Dracula, brought to his castle, Solomon Kane was sent recover her, but destroyed her--Dracula Lives#3/3
• CARSON, WENDY - former overworked waitress, distracted in romance by diner, returned to trucker boyfriend--My Love II#20/1
  
• CARSON, - employed by West Coast power brokers, employed the Seekers in an plot to steal the Metahumes from Flynn--Spider-Man: Friends & Enemies#2
  
• CARSON's CARNIVAL of TRAVELING WONDERS (Bullet Biker, Hawkeye I, Swordsman I, Trickshot, Marcella+Mr. Carson) --Avengers I#19
• "COWBOY" - Calliope's Carnival and Circus--Werewolf by Night I#6
• COWBOY (Luke Merriweather) - Team America, Thunderiders member--Team America#2
• COWBOY, le - Les Heroes de Paris, patterned after American Western heroes; a man of many bullets and few words--Fantastic Four#541
• "COWBOY TOWN" of Other Earth (Bret Colby, Kid) - lived a short distance from the Fortress of the Warlord--Fantastic Four I#272
  
• or any other "Cowboy" or "Carson" characters

images: (without ads)
Navy Combat#6/4, p1, pan4 (main image)
   p3, pan6 (jet plane blast)

Appearances:
Navy Combat#6/4 (April, 1956) - uncredited (writer), Robert Q. Sale (pencils & inks), Stan Lee (editor)

First posted: 03/14/2024
Last updated: 03/14/2024

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