Oddball

Evil-doer

Full Name

Elton Healey

Orville Bock

Alias

Oddball

Origin

Marvel Comics

Occupation

Supervillain

Member of theDeath-Throws

Powers / Skills

Juggling balls

Goals

Steal as he pleases.

Crimes

Theft

Robbery

Type of Villain

Thieving Supervillain

Oddball is a member of theDeath-Throws and a minor antagonist inMarvel Comics.

Biography[]

Elton Healey and his brother Alvin were born in Reno, Nevada.

Being young, both Elton and Alvin stood out when juggling. They called the attention of Charles Last, who wanted to recruit them for a new gang of costumed criminals: The Death-Throws, under the leadership of Last, would be at the same time costumed mercenaries and jugglers. They would take advantage of their juggling skills and use throwing weapons. Last became theRingleader. Elton adopted the name of Oddball due to his loony nature, and his tenpin-throwing brother would be known as theTenpin. The fourth member of the team wasKnickknack.

Although the Death-Throws valued teamwork more than other villain groups, Oddball suddenly broke up with the Death-Throws for unknown reasons. He began working solo, or at least without his usual partners.

As a costumed mercenary, Oddball was hired by cyborg criminalCrossfire, who wanted to kidnap Hawkeye to use him in a test of his hypnotic ultrasounds. Crossfire also hired two other costumed mercenaries, the Silencer andBombshell, for this job.

Oddball and Bombshell approached Hawkeye and his partner Mocking Bird, and attacked them by surprise. Oddball harassed Hawkeye with his burning-ball juggling while Bombshell was taking care of Mocking Bird. Although the heroes were more skilled, the villains managed to knock both of them down, and took them to Crossfire's headquarters at Cross Technologies.

Oddball was impressed by Bombshell's skill for the craft, and talked her into joining the Death-Throws. Hawkeye and Mocking Bird escaped from Crossfire's trap, destroyed his ultrasound machine and captured Crossfire. Oddball and Bombshell would have been arrested too, but they were rescued by Tenpin, who was looking for his missing brother.

Crossfire contacted the Death-Throws from jail. He wanted the jugglers to release him, and agreed to pay them when he was freed. The Ringleader accepted the deal, and Oddball and the other Death-Throws worked together to free Crossfire. However, once they had taken Crossfire to their own HQ, they discovered that Crossfire was broke. His assets had been impounded and he had lost any useful link with Cross Technologies. The Death-Throws decided to use Crossfire as a bait to attract Hawkeye and Captain America to a trap, but those two Avengers defeated all of the Death-Throws. Oddball and his partners went to jail.

Later, Oddball was approached byDoctor Octopus, who was forming a new incarnation of theMasters of Evil. Their goal was stealing technology from the Avengers HQ, which was under little watch at the time (due to an explosion in the Four Freedoms Plaza's top floors). The Masters of Evil attacked and found a defense in form of support group and time-traveling heroes Guardians of the Galaxy. Oddball and most of the other Masters were defeated, although Octopus and three of his lackeys reached the enemy base. Octopus would be soon expelled, nevertheless.

Some time later, Oddball improved his own gear and decided to test in the bloody annual competition of Madripoor, the Bloodsport, which was at the time organized byViper. In the first round, he was confronted in a one-on-one match with sword-wielding Headhunter. Oddball was confident of his new gear and wanted to use the Bloodsport as a means to obtain some prestige. However, the Headhunter stabbed him with a shriek, killing Oddball in front of a lot of witnesses.