Buckaroo

Real Name: Unrevealed - may be Bucky something

Identity/Class: Human technology user

Occupation: Criminal for hire

Group Membership: Silver City Wranglers

Affiliations: Formerly Cimarron

Enemies: Liberty Project

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: "Bucky"

Base of Operations: Silver City, New Mexico

First Appearance: Liberty Project#3 (Eclipse, August 1987)

Powers/Abilities: Deadly and unerring aim. His guns fire ordinary bullets as well as specially-created projectiles.

Height: Average to slightly below average - perhaps 5'7"
Weight: Average to below average - slim but not excessively so.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond

History: The Silver City Wranglers were a gang of Hell-raising youths in their early twenties, known for carousing and brawling but never anything more serious. Bucky and fellow gang member Rosalita "Cimarron" Vasquez were attracted to one another, but Bucky would never commit, and the gang's other female member, Jean, frequently vied for his attentions. After Cimarron got sentenced to serious jail time for a solo rampage in Las Vegas, the others felt that raising Hell for fun had lost its charm. Obtaining superpowers under unrevealed circumstances, they became criminals for hire. Fast with a gun and fast with the ladies, and thinking of himself as a present-day equivalent to the Sundance Kid (at least as played by Robert Redford), Buckaroo obtained special guns outfitted to fire stun bullets.

   When they were hired by the industrial spy Durango to steal an experimental weapon created by Nelson Aviation, the Wranglers discovered that the government agents assigned to guard it were the Liberty Project, superhuman convicts working towards parole, and that their numbers included Cimarron. Despite the Project's best efforts, the Wranglers managed to steal the weapon, but the Project tracked them down to where they were intending to hand off the weapon to Durango. The Project members destroyed the weapon rather than let it fall into the wrong hands, but the Wranglers escaped.

Comments: Created by Kurt Busiek and James W. Fry. Thanks to James Fry for additional information about the character. James noted that "sort of an opposite-number Crackshot, Buckaroo also has deadly and seemingly-unerring aim."

Appearance checklist (not including reprints): Liberty Project#3-4

CLARIFICATIONS:
Buckaroo should not be confused with:

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