Dr. BarretMAD BOMBER
Real Name: Frank Mallory
Identity/Class: Human
Occupation: Criminal bomber
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Joyce Mallory;
formerly Sally
Mallory
Enemies: Daredevil (Matt Murdock), NYPD
Known Relatives: Joyce Mallory (wife), Sally Mallory (daughter, deceased)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: New York City, New York,
USA
First Appearance: (mentioned): Daredevil I#139
(November, 1976)
Powers/Abilities: The Mad Bomber was adept with explosives with maximum damage and zero fatalities.
Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed
History: (Daredevil
I#139 (fb) – BTS) – Frank Mallory loved his wife
Joyce and daughter Sally. When their daughter Sally was hit by a car
and
killed, Joyce ran away to live in the streets, addicted to cocaine.
Frank went
mad and demanded her return.
(Daredevil I#139 – BTS) – The Mad Bomber blew up
his third
building, though no one was hurt, and he issued his same demands. He
soon blew
up another bomb in a shopping district, though again no one was hurt.
During the Mad Bomber's bombings, his wife Joyce confronted drug dealer
Mike Slate, who
interacted with
dealer Big Max.
Joyce
found a hemophiliac boy whose mother had gone looking for help with Dr. Barret and
Daredevil had
questioned drug dealer Archer
Emmet
(who called Eddie
for
help) then the hero ran into civilians Henry and Martha. When
Daredevil finally brought Joyce in, Frank surrendered, making sure
Joyce got
into rehab.
Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman, Sal Buscema and Jim Mooney.
The Mad Bomber was never shown on panel. Joyce
Mallory was
kind of the focus character in this issue but the name Mad Bomber
catches the
profile eye a bit better.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Mad Bomber has no known connections to
(Daredevil I#139) – A distraught woman rushed into Barret's clinic, stating that her hemophiliac son had run away. Desperate for help, she asked Barret to help her find him. Barret was disgusted when he called the police, learning that they couldn't help as they were handling the situation with the Mad Bomber in the city.
--Daredevil I#139
(Daredevil I#139 – BTS) – Archer Emmet called
Eddie, a
fellow drug dealer, asking him to look out for Joyce Mallory, a woman
Daredevil
was seeking.
--Daredevil I#139 - BTS
(Daredevil I#139) – Daredevil broke into the office of known drug dealer Archer Emmet, who claimed he had gone straight. Daredevil threatened to beat Emmet up unless he told him where Joyce Mallory was but Emmet knew nothing about the woman. Pressured by Daredevil to put out the word on the streets, Emmet forgot about Big Max and gave Eddie a call.
--Daredevil I#139
(Daredevil I#139) – Henry and Martha saw Daredevil rushing off and wondered if J. Jonah Jameson was right about heroes in the newspapers.
--Daredevil I#139
(Daredevil I#139 (fb) – BTS) – Joyce Mallory was
married to
Frank and had a daughter, Sally.
(Daredevil I#139 (fb)) – When Sally was outside
playing with
a ball, she was hit by a truck. Joyce rushed outside and found her
dead.
(Daredevil I#139 (fb) – BTS) – Overcome by
memories of her
daughter, Joyce rushed away to live in the streets, leaving Frank and
turning
to cocaine. Frank soon began blowing up buildings, demanding Joyce be
found.
(Daredevil I#139) – Desperate for drugs, Joyce
Mallory asked
dealer Slate to give her a fix but
he refused until she had the cash, sending
her away. Desperate and in pain, Joyce tried robbing a pawn shop
with a knife
but the employee shot her, grazing her shoulder, and she rushed away in
pain. Overcome
with memories of Sally and missing Frank, Joyce found a small boy
bleeding in
the streets and she picked him up, desperate to help him after she got
her fix.
Setting the kid down, she returned to the pawn shop, hit the owner with
a
brick and stole his cash and gun then Joyce returned to the boy,
learning he
was a hemophiliac. She took the boy with her to see Slate, who told her
that
Frank had gone on a bombing spree to find her. When Slate drew a gun,
she drew
hers first and shot him. She took the drugs she needed, tossed cash on
the
floor and left with the boy. When Daredevil approached Joyce, she fired
on him
at first then finally surrendered, making him promise he would get
medical
help for the little boy.
(Daredevil I#139 – BTS) – Frank stopped his
bombings after
making sure Joyce got into rehab.
--Daredevil I#139 (139 (fb) – BTS, 139 (fb), 139 (fb) – BTS, 139, 139 – BTS
(Daredevil I#139 (fb)) – Young sally Mallory was playing with her red ball when it bounced in the street. Going after it, she was hit and killed by a car. Her parents, Frank and Joyce, were distraught.
--Daredevil I#139 (fb)
(Daredevil I#139) – Desperate for drugs, Joyce Mallory asked dealer Mike Slate to give her a fix but he refused until she had the cash, sending her away. Later, with a hemophiliac boy with her, Joyce returned with money and a gun. Slate told Joyce that her husband, Frank Mallory, was blowing up buildings looking for her. When Slate drew a gun, Joyce shot him first then stole the drugs she needed, leaving money behind. Needing help, Slate called Big Max.
--Daredevil I#139
images: (without ads)
Daredevil I#139, p2, pan4 (Dr. Barret)
Daredevil I#139, p4, pan3 (Archer Emmet)
Daredevil I#139, p18, pan5 (Henry and Martha)
Daredevil I#139, p13, pan6 (Joyce Mallory)
Daredevil I#139, p10, pan3 (Sally Mallory)
Daredevil I#139, p5, pan5 (Mike Slate)
Appearances:
Daredevil I#139 (November, 1976) – Marv Wolfman
(writer/editor), Sal Buscema (penciler), Jim Mooney (inker)
First Posted: 11/21/2018
Last updated: 11/30/2018
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