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Priscilla Lyons was inKentucky hitchhiking toMiami, Florida when she was picked up byJack Monroe — alias the costumed crime fighter Nomad — who was passing through on his motorcycle. Priscilla told Monroe that she was going to Miami to find her brother Phil, who she feared had become involved with dangerous criminals in the illegal drug trade. Monroe promised to find and rescue Phil for her.^[3]

Monroe learned that Phil Lyons was in the employ ofUlysses X. Lugman, alias the Slug, the head Of Miami's illegal drug trade. Monroe managed to get a job working aboard Lugman's yacht and told Phil Lyons that Priscilla had sent him to bring him home. However, Phil said he was happy working for Lugman and did not want to be "rescued". Phil Lyons then informed his superiors about Monroe, injected him with a hypodermic needle containing drugs, and threw him overboard to drown.^[3]

Concerned that she had not heard from Monroe in three weeks, Priscilla had contacted his occasional partner, the originalCaptain American, Steve Rogers. Rogers rescued Monroe from drowning, and together they battled the Slug and his men aboard the yacht. Nomad set the boat on fire, but he, Captain America, and the Slug all escaped. So too, apparently did Phil Lyons.^[3]

Months later, Nomad and Priscilla Lyons arrived at the mansion owned by the former costumed wrestlerDemolition-Man in the Santa Monica Mountains of California. Priscilla and Jack Monroe were now lovers, and she had adopted the masked identity of Vagabond. However, she had no special skills that would qualify her to be an effective adventurer or crime fighter, rather, she seemed merely to be tagging along with her lover on his adventures.^[4]

Steve Rogers, the original Captain America, had temporarily abandoned that particular costumed identity. For a time Rogers, calling himself simply the Captain, worked alongside Nomad, Demolition-Man, and another crime fighter, theFalcon. The Captain insisted that Vagabond refrain from active participation in the team's battles against criminals. However, Demolition-Man began training Vagabond in hand-to-hand combat and gymnastics. When the Captain and his allies dealt with a breakout from the superhuman criminal detention centerThe Vault, Vagabond was ordered to remain in the team's van. Despite this, she proved able to persuade one of the escapees,Armadillo, to turn himself in. To her own astonishment, on another occasion Vagabond even succeeded in defeating theBlack Racer, a member of theSerpent Society, by tickling her into helplessness.^[5]

Nomad grew jealous and angry over the amount of time that Vagabond spent with Demolition-Man, although in actuality Vagabond and Demolition-Man were no more than platonic friends. Yet, Monroe refused to believe this, and the relationship between Jack Monroe and Priscilla Lyons came to an end.^[6]

Priscilla went to seeCurtiss Jackson, the head ofPower Broker, Inc., in the hope of receiving his treatment to gain superhuman strength so that she could become more effective as a costumed adventurer. While she was speaking with Jackson, he came under attack from a costumed vigilantes known as Scourge. Hoping to gain enough strength to defend himself from Scourge, Jackson submitted himself to the strength enhancement treatment, knowing full well that in fifty percent of the cases it had terrible side effects. The treatment enlarged Jackson's musculature to such an extent that he was no longer able to move. Jackson was taken into custody by the police and placed in the Los Angeles County Hospital.^[7]

Priscilla Lyons was then captured byDr. Karl Malus, Jackson's chief scientist. Malus intended to take over the operations of Power Broker, Inc., but the safe containing Jackson's most important files could only be opened through the use of his fingerprints. Hence, since he believed that Jackson would trust Lyons, Malus gave her an "epidermold" made of a malleable putty-like material and demanded that she take an impression of Jackson's hand. Malus warned her that if she refused or betrayed him, he would have her brutally injured by some of his superhumanly strong henchmen. Malus placed a bracelet on her arm that she could not remove and through which he could monitor what she said.^[8]

Guilt-ridden at the idea of betraying the faith of the now helpless Jackson, Lyons nonetheless went to his hospital room and took the impression of his hand. She then contacted Malus, demanding that he meet her alone in the hospital lobby with the key to the bracelet. Malus agreed, but on meeting her tried to inject her with a hypodermic needle whose contents were unknown. Lyons knocked Malus unconscious, injected him with the needle, put the bracelet on him, left him in a stall in the ladies' room, and had hospital security notified that he was there. She left the hospital, and phoned the costumed adventurer known as the U.S. Agent to tell him where to pick up Malus's henchmen. She then crushed the putty-like ball with Jackson's hand-print, rendering it useless.^[9]

Vagabond would later go on to be a failed Scourge of the Underworld herself. While successfully undergoing the training, she found herself unable to kill her first target: the super villain known as theMatador, who had apparently reformed and now babysat his sister's children in low-income housing. Fearing retribution from the Scourge organization, she sought help from theWest Coast Avengers emergency helpline. The U.S. Agent answered her call, and the two of them shut down the Scourge operation.^[10]

AfterCivil War[]

• Skilled Combatant: Initially, Vagabond received training fromDemolition-Man andNomad in unarmed combat, gymnastics, and acrobatics, and was moderately skillful in each of those areas. As a recruit for theScourge Program, she received additional training in various forms of martial arts.^[12]
• Firearms: She also learned how to operate several different kinds of firearms.^[12]
• Espionage: The program also taught her surveillance and eavesdropping techniques, escape artistry, and the art of disguise.^[12]

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