Gringo

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Criminal for hire

Group Membership: Silver City Wranglers

Affiliations: Formerly Cimarron

Enemies: Liberty Project

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Silver City, New Mexico

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

Powers/Abilities: He's not literally superhuman, but his physicality has been upgraded to peak human. So think Captain America's abilities combined with Wolverine's attitude and temperament.

Height: Unrevealed - slightly above average, perhaps 5'11"
Weight: Unrevealed - muscular build
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Brown

History: You know that mean drunk who'd rather punch a guy in the face than kiss a pretty girl? Maybe even punch a pretty girl in the face? Gringo is that guy's bigger, meaner brother. He was a member of the Silver City Wranglers, a gang of Hell-raising youths in their early twenties, known for carousing and brawling but never anything more serious. However, after one of their number, the superhumanly strong Rosalita "Cimarron" Vasquez, 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 for themselves under unrevealed circumstances, they became criminals for hire. Gringo, already a mean brawler, was physically enhanced to top condition. 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 Gringo.

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

CLARIFICATIONS:
Gringo should not be confused with:

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