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Baron Katana
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Earth-One
Pre-Crisis
Characteristics
Real name Unknown
Alias Lord Katana; Baron Katana
Gender Male
Alignment Bad
Occupation Would-be conqueror
Family none known
Affiliation none known
First appearance The Flash vol 1 #180 (Jun 1968)
Appearance of death The Flash vol 1 #181 (Aug 1968)
Universe Pre-Crisis/Earth-One
Alternate versions none known
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History[]

Disgusted with his native Japan’s turn toward Western society, the infamous war criminal Baron Katana built an army of robotic Samurai. He established his headquarters in his ancestral retreat, Black Heron Castle, situated on a tiny northern island of Japan. He also built a robotic swordmaster, Daisho. Equipping his Samuroids with jet packs, indestructible armor, and electrified swords, he prepared to take over Japan.

Shortly before the planned attack, a discarded android was caught by a fisherman and sent to Interpol, where it came to the attention of Captain Hashi. Hashi’s friend, Barry Allen, was visiting Japan with his wife and had stopped by to visit. Another friend, filmmaker Toshira, recognized the insignia on the armor as that of the Black Heron. Barry went to check it out as the Flash, and was subsequently captured.

Upon tracing the Heron to Baron Katana, Hashi led a strike force of Black Berets to the island, disguised as stunt men for one of Toshira’s samurai movies. (In fact, Barry’s friend had been trying for some months to identify the castle’s owner in order to obtain permission to film there.) In the ensuing battle, the Flash defeated the Samuroids by shorting out their control center and power source. Baron Katana leaped from the castle walls into the ocean, and presumably drowned.

Pre-Crisis/Earth-One[]

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