Copperhead (Marvel Comics)
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain America #337 (1988) |
| Created by | Mark Gruenwald Ralph Macchio and Tom Morgan |
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| Alter ego | David Lawfers |
| Team affiliations | Serpent Society |
| Abilities | Skilled in hand-to-hand combat, Gauntlets grant: Energy blasts |
Copperhead (Davis Lawfers) is a fictional supervillain from Marvel Comics. He was a member of the Serpent Society. There were at least two other villains of the same name. Very little has been revealed about Copperhead's past and his origins.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Davis Lawfers was born in Rochester, New York. He was a civil servant before becoming an agent of the Viper and professional criminal. Copperhead was the leader of the fourth Serpent Squad, consisting also of Fer-de-lance, Black Racer, and Puff Adder. The quartet robbed a Las Vegas casino and battled Captain America, Falcon, Nomad, and D-Man in order to attract the attention of Sidewinder, then the leader of the Serpent Society.[1] The Serpent Squad was freed from jail by the Sidewinder,[2] and were inducted into the Serpent Society. In truth, they were sent by the Viper so she could infiltrate the organization and take over as its new leader.[3] After the coup was staged, Copperhead was assigned by the Viper, along with the Cobra and Boomslang to put a mutagenic agent into the water supply of Washington D.C. During that mission, he and Cobra had personality conflicts and did not get along, and battled Captain America and Diamondback.[4] After the Viper's plot was foiled, the Society re-organized with Cobra was the new leader. Copperhead did not stay long and quietly disappeared from the ranks of the Society.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Copperhead has no superhuman powers. He has moderate experience in hand-to-hand combat and street fighting techniques, but mainly relies on his weaponry.
He wears finger-shooters on his gauntlets which project electrical discharges ("poison-blasts"); a spring-loaded, telescoping, rapid-retracting, wrist-mounted, titanium steel alloy grapping hook ("shooting fang"), with 30-foot cable line; exploding magnesium flare-bombs stored in his snake-head helmet compartment ("copper-bursts"); micro-suction cups in gloves and boots, enabling adhesion to walls and ceilings. His equipment was designed by technicians hired by the Viper. His gauntlets need to be recharged regularly using the spare poison-blast cartridges in his belt.
For protection, Copperhead wears a copper suit of scale mail, which functions as light body armor made of micro-mesh chain-mail covered with reinforced synthetic chain-mail tunic.
[edit] Other Marvel characters named Copperhead
Davis Lawfers, the third Copperhead, is not to be confused with Lawrence Chesney or Arthur Reynolds, two previous Marvel characters who used the name.
