The Unofficial Biography of...

Air Wave

Air Wave was created by Mort Weisinger and Lee Harris

.....While still in High School, young Larry Jordan aided police in sending a racketeer named "Snake-Eyes" Bentley to prision using a secret recording device and a reciever that detected radio waves off any smooth metallic surface. Keeping the still-imperfect device a secret, Larry one day hoped to modify the miniature sending/ receiving device and sell the patent.

.....After graduating the bar, the young attorney interned at the office of the Brooklyn District Attorney. Under circumstances not yet reveiled, Larry Jordan used the technology and began to fight crime as Air Wave. One of his first cases was to clear himself in the murder of the District Attorney. Using his skill and with the assistance of his pet parrot Static, Jordan clearded himself and was named to fill out the unexpired term of his late boss. Doing such a good job led Larry to be re-elected, becoming one of the youngest District Attornies in the United States.

.....Air Wave joined the newly formed ALL-STAR SQUADRON, acting as akind of ad hoch communications expert and liason with New York's law enforcement community.

.....After the War, Larry devoted more time to his law practice and his electrical research, finally retiring as Air Wave in 1948. Larry Jordon married and several years later his wife Helen gave birth to ther son, Hal. Accidentily learning of his son's ability to transmute into electrical impulses, Air Wave was ready to begin to train his son when Larry Jordan was killed by an escaped convict seeking revenge on the retired D.A. Helen dressed up as Air Wave and brought the villain to justice. She kept the costume and the modified helmet which would allow young Hal to control his powers and passed it on to him when he becoame a teenager.

,,,,,Ofter misleading criminals with his electronic trickery, Air Wave had several major weapons in his bag of tricks. Using a powerful microphone, he could bounce radio signals off any smooth metal surface, such as a wash tub, stainless steel sink or even a policemen's badge. His sophisticated equiptment allowed him to listen in in much the same manner.

....Using a pair of specially desingned, detachable skates, Air Wave could ride airborne electrical wires, such as telephone lines, trolly car cables and those used by elevated trains. Doing this, he could also recharge miniature batteries and activate a small but poweful generatorthat was contained in the helmet. The batteries also powered a very powerful reciever and, with proper atmospheric conditions, could recieve radio signals throughout the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. After his retirement, Air Wave modified the helmet to allow his son to transmute his physical body into electrical energies, and later any form of elecomagnetic radiation.

Air Wave was aided by a large green Maccaw parrot named Static. Specially trained to mimic Jordan's voice, the bird proved useful in helping maintian his dual identity.

.....Jordan later took to wearing a false moustache, removing it when he became Air Wave.

.....In his personal chronology, I've placed him as starting his career pre-WW II, for two reasons: 1) On the basis of his appearing as a photo/drawing on the cover of All-Star Squadron# 1, which if it isn't totally symbolic, probably occurs during their meeting in December '41; and 2) I feel that he's established enough by February '42 to be invited to their first general meeting.

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