BIRD-MAN
Real Name: Achille DiBacco
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Criminal
Group Membership:
The Hood (Parker Robbins)'s army of resurrected Scourge victims aka. Deadly Dozen (Basilisk/Basil Elks, Black Abbott, Blue Streak/Don Thomas, Cheetah/Esteban Carracus, Cyclone/André Gerard, Death Adder/Roland Burroughs, Firebrand/Gary Gilbert, Hijacker/Howard Mitchell, Human Fly/Richard Deacon, Lascivious/Davida DeVito (formerly Titania), Letha/Helen Feliciano, Megatak/Gregory Nettles, Mind-Wave/Erik Gelden, Miracle Man/Joshua Ayers, Mirage/Desmond Charne, Turner D. Century/Clifford F. Michaels, Wraith/Brian DeWolff), Scourge
victims;
formerly Ani-Men
(Ape-Man/Roy McVey, Cat-Man/Sebastian Patane)
Affiliations: Death-Stalker (Philip Sterling), Ceres Goldstein, Hood, Microchip
Enemies: Black Widow (Natasha Romanova), Becky Blake, Daredevil (Matt Murdock), Heather Glenn, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Punisher (Frank Castle), Scourge of the Underworld
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: New York City, New York
First Appearance: Daredevil I#157 (March, 1979)
Powers/Abilities: After his resurrection by the Hood, Bird-Man possesses limited intelligence and is more bird-like than ever before, with a beak, feathered wings, and bird feet. Bird-Man's suit originally gave him the ability of winged flight.
History:
(Daredevil I#158 (fb) - BTS) - The Exterminator guised himself as Death-Stalker and equipped three new men with the Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man costumes. He offered them one hundred thousand dollars to kidnap blind attorney Matt Murdock.
(Daredevil I#157 - BTS) - Bird-Man spied on Murdock kissing the tormented Heather Glenn.
(Daredevil I#157) - The Ani-Men attacked Murdock's office, with his associates Becky Blake, Black Widow, Heather Glenn, and Franklin "Foggy" Nelson there. Bird-Man knocked Black Widow back with a punch. When Nelson hit Ape-Man with a chair, Ape-Man punched Nelson back.
(Daredevil I#158) - Bird-Man was hit in the head by a nameplate thrown by Heather Glenn, allowing Black Widow to leap on him and rip his wings off. Ape-Man and Cat-Man, deciding to split the profits themselves, rushed Murdock across the city, ignoring his warnings that Death-Stalker was a killer. They returned him to the cemetery they’d been instructed to go to and Death-Stalker met them there. While they were counting their money, Death-Stalker walked up behind Ape-Man and Cat-Man and killed them both with a touch.
(Captain America I#319) - Bird-Man attended a meeting at the Bar With No Name to address concerns about villain-killer Scourge, but he was killed by Scourge alongside Cheetah, Commander Kraken, Cyclone, Firebrand, Grappler, Hell-razor, Hijacker, Jaguar, Letha, Mind-Wave, Mirage, Rapier, Ringer, Shellshock, Steeplejack, Turner D. Century, and Vamp.
(Captain America I#320) - Bird-Man's corpse was seen.
(Punisher VII#5) - Bird-Man was brought back to life by the Hood along with several other Scourge victims.
(Punisher VII#6) - The Hood presented his plan to his new "Deadly Dozen, to have the Scourge victims kill the Punisher, telling them that he'd been the Scourge who killed them, within 30 days or their lives would be taken again. Bird-Man, seemingly much more bird-like and with less intelligence, blindly followed orders. After Hood put Microchip in charge, Bird-Man attacked the Human Fly, seemingly trying to eat him.
(Punisher VII#7) - Bird-Man was seen flying around New York, alerting the Punisher to his being alive.
(Punisher VII#8) - When the Human Fly was defeated by Punisher, Bird-Man retrieved him.
(Punisher Annual II#1) - When called for, Bird-Man swooped in and carried away Letha and Lascivious from a crime scene.
(Invincible Iron Man I#20) - Bird-Man attended a meeting at Avengers Tower with several other criminals, where Norman Osborn told them that the bounty was now off of Tony Stark's head.
SECRET WARS HAPPENED
(Invincible Iron Man III#598 - BTS) – Ceres Goldstein built a new prototype for the Bird-Man uniform.
Comments: Created by Roger Mackenzie, Mary Jo Duffy, Gene Colan, and Klaus Janson.
The Bird-Man proto-husk created by Arnim Zola in
Deadpool III#0 could either be a clone of DiBacco or his predecessor
Hawk.
--Markus Raymond
Last night I was flipping thru Iron Man I#7 (November, 1968), and on the Bullpen Bulletins page, Stan's Soapbox popped out at me! The name Achille DiBacco seemed so familiar, then I realized it was the real name of the second Bird-Man, who first appeared in Daredevil I#157 (March, 1979). The real life Achille also had a letter printed in Fantastic Four I#96 (March, 1970). Perhaps there are others. I'm not 100% certain, but Bird-Man may not have been given a real name until the Handbook in the mid 1980s. Just thought it was cool that a fan's name got used for a character name. I wonder who was responsible for that? Mark Gruenwald, maybe?--Roger Ott
Profile by Chadman.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Bird-Man has no known connections to
images: (without ads)
Punisher VII#5, p23, pan1 (main)
Daredevil I#158, p2, pan2 (with Ani-Men)
Appearances:
Daredevil I#157 (March, 1979) - Roger Mackenzie, Mary Joe Duffy
(writers), Gene Colan (penciler), Klaus Janson (inker), Allen Milgrom
(editor)
Daredevil I#158 (May, 1979) - Roger Mackenzie (writer), Frank Miller
(penciler), Klaus Janson (inker), Allen Milgrom (editor)
Captain America I#319 (July, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Paul
Neary (penciler), Joe Sinnott (inker), Mike Carlin (editor)
Captain America I#320 (August, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Paul
Neary (penciler), Dennis Janke (inker), Mike Carlin (editor)
Punisher VII#5 (July, 2009) - Rick Remender (writer), Jerome Opena
(penciler/inker), Axel Alonso (editor)
Punisher VII#6-8 (August-October, 2009) - Rick Remender (writer), Tan
Eng Huat (penciler/inker), Axel Alonso (editor)
Punisher Annual II#1 (November, 2009) - Rick Remender (writer), Jason
Pearson (penciler/inker), Axel Alonso (editor)
Invincible Iron Man I#20 (January, 2010) - Matt Fraction (writer),
Salvador Larroca (penciler/inker), Warren Simons (editor)
Invincible Iron Man I#598 (May, 2018) – Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex
Maleev, Stefano Casselli (artists), Tom Brevoort (editor)
First posted: 09/18/2009
Last updated: 12/01/2024
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