BADLANDS
Real
Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Normal human
Occupation: Racketeer
Group
Membership: Led his
own gang of thugs
Affiliations: Bullseye
(Lester), his thugs
Enemies: Mr. Burnich
(first name unrevealed), Daredevil (Matt Murdock), Kingpin (Wilson
Fisk), District
Attorney Kathy Malper,
Commissioner
Tanner (first name unrevealed), Archer
(loose)
Known
Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base
of Operations: American
southwest;
formerly New York City, USA
First
Appearance: Daredevil
Cyber Comic: Protection
Racket - Part One (1998)
Powers/Abilities: Badlands
did not appear to possess
any superhuman powers but was a skilled and ruthless racketeer. He had
no
qualms about killing a person where they stood if they could not pay
his protection
racket and he often carried a gun for just such an occasion. He was not
afraid
to encroach on the territory of powerful crimelords
such as the Kingpin but mostly relied on hired thugs to do the dirty
work.
Height:
5'10"
(by
approximation)
Weight: 180 lbs. (by
approximation)
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Black (inferred)
History:
(Daredevil
Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part One (fb) - BTS) - Badlands made a
name
for himself as a professional racketeer based in the American
southwest. He
eventually decided to extend his racketeering into New York, where he
started a
protection racket.
(Daredevil
Cyber Comic:
Protection Racket - Part One) - Badlands and his goons confronted Mr. Burnich over the protection
money he owed them. Terrified, Burnich
pleaded that Badlands take everything he owned but
Badlands replied that he already had all of the property formerly owned
by Burnich. Badlands
then thanked Mr. Burich
and others like him for giving Badlands the best years of his life,
then
had his
goons shoot Mr. Burnich
dead. Later, Badlands and his
goons met with Bullseye,
where Badlands handed Bullseye
a pencil and asked what he could do with it. Bullseye
broke the pencil in half and hurled it into the
faces of Badlands' goons. Badlands reminded his thugs that scars build
character then showed Bullseye
a photo of the
Kingpin, asking what he could do with that, to which Bullseye
replied "something low-down murderous."
(Daredevil
Cyber Comic:
Protection Racket - Part Two (fb) - BTS) - Badlands continued his
efforts to
extend
his racketeering network into New York City, with reports of his crimes
reaching
police Commissioner Tanner. Hired by Badlands, Bullseye
attempted to assassinate the Kingpin inside Fisk's limo by using a
rocket
launcher, but was foiled by Daredevil.
(Daredevil
Cyber Comic:
Protection Racket - Part Three) - After Bullseye
failed to kill the Kingpin due to Daredevil's interference, Badlands
chewed out
Bullseye, reminding the
assassin what he was hired to
do. Bullseye replied
that not only would Badlands see
the Kingpin dead on a spit, but Bullseye
would throw
in Daredevil's bones as a freebie.
(Daredevil
Cyber Comic:
Protection Racket - Part Four - BTS) - When Bullseye
was
defeated by Daredevil while trying to kill the Kingpin in the hospital,
Badlands skipped town.
Comments: Created by D. G. Chichester
and Daerick Gross.
The
Marvel Cyber Comics were
interactive comic books released on Marvel's website in the late
1990s-early
2000s. They are no longer available so thanks to D. G. Chichester
himself for the images!
At
the beginning of "Protection
Racket" Part Two, Commissioner Tanner referred to the "Badlands crime
organization" but in Part One, D. A. Malper
told
Daredevil of "a southwestern racketeer by the name of Badlands." I'm
choosing
to treat Badlands as one person and that Tanner's comments were just a
weird
way of referring to Badlands' gang.
After
wheeling Archer out of his
office, it seems likely the Kingpin probably would have later ordered
Archer
dead.
Badlands'
eye color was never
shown as he always seemed to be squinting and his hair color in this
profile is
based on the color of his mustache, as he always wore that hat.
Profile
by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Badlands has
no
known connections to
- Badlands dimension, mystic realm home to the
Demon-Bear, fashioned as the epitome of the American southwest @ New
Mutants I#20
- or any other "Badlands" characters
Archer
was a lackey of the
Kingpin. After watching Commissioner Tanner badmouth him on television,
the
Kingpin yelled for Archer, exclaiming that it was time for New York's
finest to
meet New York's worst. Turning around, Kingpin found Archer tied up by
Daredevil. When Daredevil replied that Kingpin needed better help,
Kingpin
agreed and pushed Archer outside of his office, exclaiming that Archer
was
fired.
--Daredevil
Cyber Comic:
Protection Racket - Part Two
Mr. Burnich
was a businessman who owned a bank, a movie theatre, Miss Switzer's
Hardware
Store, Old Man Gleason's Volkswagon
Dealership, and
Widow Fletcher's McDonalds franchise. When Badlands began his
protection racket
in New York, he demanded money from Mr. Burnich,
who
pleaded for Badlands to take everything but Badlands replied that he
had
already taken all of the property owned by Mr. Burnich.
Despite Burnich's
begging, Badlands had his goons
shoot Burnich dead.
--Daredevil
Cyber Comic:
Protection Racket - Part One
Commissioner Commissioner
Tanner was the head
of a police precinct in New York. When interviewed by the news, Tanner
commented
about Badlands and his gang moving into New York and reminded viewers
that if
Wilson Fisk was a simple "spice merchant" as he had always claimed to
be, he
had nothing to fear from Badlands' encroachment. Tanner then exclaimed
that
everyone knew Fisk was the Kingpin of crime and announced that Kingpin
deserved
everything he got from Badlands. He then continued to say that the city
was not
going to waste taxpayer dollars protecting criminals from other
criminals. He
later reiterated that statement for reporters after the Kingpin was
hospitalized by Bullseye.
Tanner was only ever shown on a television screen.
--Daredevil
Cyber Comic:
Protection Racket - Part Two (Part Four
images: (without ads)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part One, p8, splash page
(Badlands,
main image)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part One, p12, pan1
(Badlands,
headshot)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part Two, p5, pan3 (Archer)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part One, p6, splash page
(Mr. Burnich)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part One, p4, pan1 (District
Attorney Malper)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part Two, p5, pan1
(Commissioner
Tanner)
Appearances:
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part One (1998) - D. G. Chichester (writer), Daerick
Gross (art), Gregg Sanderson (editor)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part Two (1998) - D. G. Chichester (writer), Daerick
Gross (art), Gregg Sanderson (editor)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part Three (1998) - D. G. Chichester (writer), Daerick
Gross (art), Gregg Sanderson (editor)
Daredevil Cyber Comic: Protection Racket - Part Four (1998) - D. G. Chichester (writer), Daerick
Gross (art), Gregg Sanderson (editor)
First Posted: 12/07/2013
Last updated:
11/22/2013
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