IDENTITY: Harold Lawrence Jordan, also MaserBASE OF OPERATIONS: Dallas, Texas
FIRST APPEARANCE:
GREEN LANTERN 2nd series # 100
(January, 1978)
"Rider of the Airwaves"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 140 lbs.
Eyes: Brown, later blue
Hair: Brown, later blond
KNOWN RELATIVES:
Larry Jordan (father, deceased)
Helen Jordan (mother)
unnamed grandmother
Jack, Hal, Jim Jordan (cousins)
Jan Jordan
HISTORY:
A hero since he was a teenager, Harold Lawrence Jordan represented two heroic legacies. That of his father, Lawrence Jordan aka the original Air Wave, as well as his cousin and namesake, Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern.
The story of Air Wave began in the early 1940's. As a clerk to the local District Attorney, Lawrence "Larry" Jordan wanted to do more in the fight against crime. Being something of an expert in radio science and electronics, Larry Jordan created the heroic identity of Air Wave. While wearing the costume, Air Wave could summon and control magnetic energy as well as intercept telephone communications. Trick boots allowed him to walk up walls and "ride" along telephone lines. The boots also had retractable skates, giving Air Wave increased speed. Aside from protecting his secret identity by wearing a mask when appearing as Air Wave, he wore glasses and a fake mustache while appearing as Larry Jordan.
[DCCP # 40, WhW'85 # 1]
When FDR called America's so-called "mystery men" to band together against the Axis menace, Air Wave became a member of the wartime All-Star Squadron. Roughly fifty of the nation's costumed heroes, including the Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott, remained as part of the Squadron until the war's end.
[ALL-STAR SQUADRON # 1]
Larry Jordan and his wife Helen had one son, Harold Lawrence Jordan who went by the name Hal. It is not known if they named their son after his cousin, Hal Jordan, or another relative.
[DCCP # 55]
Fourteen years ago, Jordan improved his Air Wave costume, most notably he now had the ability to convert his body to energy and ride radio waves. One fateful night he was preparing himself to test his new abilities when he heard a police report regarding a prowler at his house on 217 Elsmere Lane. Jordan attempted to activate the costume's radio-wave converter only to find his costume dissolving around him. Putting on the glasses and false mustache he wore as Larry Jordan, he ran downstairs to face Joe Parsons, an escaped convict he had sent to jail some years before. Jordan died while defending his family, one gunshot to the chest ended his life while his wife and son watched.
Helen Jordan swore to bring Joe Parsons to justice. She put on the green and yellow costume of Air Wave and tracked Parsons to an apartment complex. Helen Jordan was not strong enough to defeat him with her fists so she struck him with a floor lamp, jolting him with electrictiy.
Some weeks later, Helen Jordan testified against Joe Parsons. Her husband's killer was returned to prison. She put away her husband's Air Wave costume, noting to herself that one day he would take up the title of Air Wave.
[DCCP # 40]
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