G-2
Created by Ruben Moreira, aka Rubimor
+ History
The U.S. Intelligence Department has many heroes among its members… but one outstanding individual, Don Leash, becomes the dreaded G-2, scourge of all enemies of America…
G-2 in civilian and a ... more exotic guise.
From National Comics #36
(October 1943)
G-2 was Capt. Don Leash, an officer in the Army Intelligence department of the same name.
In his second case, he met up with an insidious duo of terrorists, Gothro and Dr. Agony. These enemy agents tortured a U.S. Naval officer and plotted an attack on New York City. The villains possessed a submarine that housed planes that were ready for the attack. Despite suffering a gunshot wound on their their sub, G-2 managed to alert the U.S. military and sink the Nazi vessel. Fisherman informant Svengal. (National #28)
Survived yet another shot from the so-called mystical "murder gun" (#29)
In China, Leash met another undercover agent, QX-4 Jean Carroll, alias the Cantow Poppy. She was undercover as a counterspy to foil the Japanese. Before she sacrificed herself to take them out, she gave G-2 a goodbye kiss. (#30)
His first masked opponent was a Nazi spy called King Spy. His Fifth Column ring took over a hotel and began taking out prominent Washington officials. (#34)
Fraulein Thura Nazi spy chief sent specifically to capture G-2. Got the drop on her and turned her into authorities because, as he put it, "I don't shoot women!" (#36)
In the latter part of his wartime service, Leash moved into operations in the Pacific theater. In China, he met a freedom fighter called Lady Wang—the "Eastern Joan of Arc"—and saved her people by routing the Japanese invaders in her village. (#42)
In his last recorded adventure, he worked with an art expert, Professor Joaquim, to recover treasures stolen by the Axis forces in the Pacific. In the country of Tambang, the Japanese had taken the Kwan-Yin Vase, which was said to bestow leadership on its possessor. (#46)
His whereabouts after the war are unknown.
Notes
In the real world, the Army G-2 is a division of the U.S. Army charged with operational and tactical intelligence. Also, the term "G-Man" is slang for "government man."
The strip begs the question: why would an agent with undercover resources choose to don an attention grabbing costume? An experiment, I suppose.
G-2 began in National Comics after the cancellation of the Merlin and Wonder Boy strips, but did not employ the artists from those strips. The G-2 strip bore uncharacteristically poor artwork in comparison with its contemporaries.
+ Powers
G-2 had no metahuman powers, but he was a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.
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