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Ma Hunkel
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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Appearances[]

  • All-American Comics 3
  • All-American Comics 4
  • All-American Comics 6
  • All-American Comics 11
  • All-American Comics 13
  • All-American Comics 17
  • All-American Comics 18
  • All-American Comics 19
  • All-American Comics 20
  • All-American Comics 21
  • All-American Comics 22
  • All-American Comics 23
  • All-American Comics 24
  • All-American Comics 25
  • All-American Comics 32
  • All-American Comics 33
  • All-American Comics 34
  • All-American Comics 35
  • All-American Comics 36
  • All-American Comics 37
  • All-American Comics 38
  • All-American Comics 39
  • All-American Comics 40
  • All-American Comics 41
  • All-American Comics 42
  • All-American Comics 44
  • All-American Comics 45
  • All-American Comics 46
  • All-American Comics 47
  • All-Star Comics 3

  • Justice League of America 64

  • Animal Man 25
  • JSA 76
  • JSA 80-Page Giant 2010
  • JSA All-Stars 7
  • JSA Classified 4
  • JSA Classified 5
  • JSA Classified 6
  • JSA Classified 27
  • JSA Classified 33

  • Alternate timeline

    • Young Justice 45

    Kingdom Come, Earth-22

    • Kingdom Come 3
    • Kingdom Come 4

    Smallville

    • Smallville: Lantern 4

    References[]

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