Pilfer Prode (Quality Universe)

Flying Fish
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Real Name	Pilfer Prode
Main Alias	Flying Fish
Base Of Operations	Oray Island
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Public Identity
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Red
Origin
Universe	Quality Universe
Creators	Reed Crandall
Original Publisher	Quality Comics
First Appearance	Blackhawk #32 (August, 1950)
Last Appearance	Blackhawk #32 (August, 1950)

Wait till we get this motor back to our workshop! It's small but specially powered ... a real stroke of genius!

— Chuck Wilson

The Flying Fish was an enemy of the Blackhawk Squadron.

History

In the 1940s, Pilfer Prode was a small-time crook, but was known to the police of every country. He moved to the remote island of Oray, in the South Seas, and made use of a mechanized suit of flying/swimming armor to swindle the peaceful island people out of a fortune in pearls and gold, by impersonating their deity, the Flying Fish.

By 1950 he had been getting away with this for enough years to watch the Oray Islanders' pretty young princess grow into a gorgeous young woman, and he demanded that his annual sacrificial tribute should that year include Princess Tala. By remarkable good luck, one of the famous Blackhawks, Andre, was himself pursuing the princess, with romantic intent, and soon the Blackhawk Squadron became involved. Pilfer Prode was put out of business, his accumulated loot was returned to the Oray people, and the Blackhawks confiscated his incredible flying suit.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Flight

Abilities

• Deception
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Prode's mechanical swimming/flying armor suit was captured and examined by the Blackhawks.

Notes

• This version of the Flying Fish, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.

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Footnotes

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