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Abigail Hunkel | |
Aliases: | Ma Hunkel Red Tornado Abigail Mathilda Hunkel |
Continuity: | DC Universe |
Notability: | Recurring character |
Type: | Vigilante |
Occupation: | Business owner |
Gender: | Female |
Race: | Human |
Location: | New York City, New York |
Associations: | Justice Society of America |
Relatives: | Amelia Hunkel Mortimer Jibbet Maxine Hunkel |
Status: | Alive |
First: | All-American Comics #3 |
Abigail Mathilda "Ma" Hunkel is a fictional business owner and retired super-hero known as the Red Tornado. She is featured in comic books published by All-American Publications and later by DC Comics. She first appeared in All-American Comics #3 in June, 1939.
Biography[]
Abigail Hunkel lived in New York City, New York in the early 1940s. She was married to a man named Henry "Hunk" Hunkel. Henry's brother, Gus Hunkel used his race track winnings to help Abigail purchase the Schultz's Grocery store on Vine Street. When gangsters and racketeers tried to muscle Ma Hunkel at her business and threaten her children, she decided to take matters into her own hand. Donning a pair of red long-johns, a yellow over-shirt and a stew pot for a helmet, Abigail Hunkel became the scourge against the underworld known as the Red Tornado. She was able to maintain a secret identity due to her broad physique, which led most who encountered her to mistake her for a male.
Notes & Trivia[]
The character of Abigail Hunkel was created by writer and artist Sheldon Moldoff.
- Although this character was originally introduced during the Golden Age era of DC Comics' publishing history, which is often retroactively attributed to the reality designated Earth-Two, their existence following the events of the 1985-86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.
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- Justice League of America 64
Alternate timeline
- Young Justice 45
Kingdom Come, Earth-22
- Kingdom Come 3
- Kingdom Come 4
Smallville
- Smallville: Lantern 4