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| Billy Bob Rackham | |
| Aliases: | Rackham; Captain Rackham |
| Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
| Notability: | Minor character |
| Type: | Prison guard |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Seagate Prison, Georgia |
| Status: | Deceased |
| First: | Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 |
| Final: | Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #16 |
Captain Billy Bob Rackham is a fictional prison guard featured in comic book titles published by Marvel Comics. He is part of the mainstream Marvel Universe and first appeared in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 in June, 1972.
Biography[]
Billy Bob Rackham was the captain of the prison guards at Seagate Prison in Georgia. Like many who worked there, he was racist and abusive and more often than not, looking to satisfy his own selfish aims rather than maintain order. Captain Rackham disrupted a confrontation between a prisoner named Carl Lucas and two would-be supervillains named Shades and Comanche, who were trying to get Lucas to join a prison gang. He wanted Lucas to become an informer for him, but Lucas refused. As a result, Rackham had another guard named Quirt attack Lucas in his cell. Warden Tyler Stuart learned of this and fired Quirt and Rackham was demoted. Rackham later learned that Carl Lucas had been selected to be the beneficiary of an experiment conducted by the prison's physician, Doctor Noah Burstein. Seeking to assuage his need for revenge against Lucas, he tampered with the controls on the containment tube holding Lucas' body. The increased chemical dosage did not kill him however, but rather gave him super-strength and skin as hard as steel. Lucas broke free of his containment tube and escaped the prison.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Billy Bob Rackham was created by writers Roy Thomas and Archie Goodwin and artist George Tuska.