Captain Squidd (Quality Universe)

Captain Squidd
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Real Name	Unknown
Main Alias	Captain Squidd
Affiliation	his pirate crew: Mawr, others
Base Of Operations	Pacific Ocean @ Equator
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Occupation	Pirate
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Bald
Origin
Universe	Quality Universe
Creators	Reed Crandall
First Appearance	Modern Comics #74 (June, 1948)
Appearance of Death	Modern Comics #74 (June, 1948)

Unlimber the side tentacle, Mawr! If we play our cards right, we will have Blackhawk himself in our power!

— Captain Squidd

Captain Squidd was a pirate, using technologically advanced weapons and vehicles.

History

In 1948, Captain Squidd and his giant submarine, the "Cuttlefish," plundered commercial shipping in the Pacific Ocean, looting and destroying a series of ships. Squidd would position the Cuttlefish under the targeted vessel, and ram the ship from below, using a huge hydraulic ram mounted atop the submarine. This ram was hollow, and served as a conduit for boarding parties of pirates to swarm into the lower decks. Typically officers were murdered and crews were abducted, always the hull-breached victim vessels would sink. Other vessels would be dismantled at sea by a pair of enormous mechanical pincers on the Cuttlefish's bow.

Squidd attacked a tramp steamer bound for Blackhawk Island, and in return was attacked by Blackhawk, flying and diving in an experimental type of submersible jet warplane. The diving jet was armed with oxy-acetylene blowtorches, and this was what detonated the Cuttlefish's fuel supply, explosively destroying the submarine and killing Captain Squidd.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Leadership
• Seamanship
• Shipbuilding
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Captain Squidd had a sea-floor submarine base with an internal dry-dock.

Transportation

Squidd's Giant Submarine was called the "Cuttlefish." It had:

• hydraulic pincers on its bow, for target ship demolition
• a hull-breaching ram on top, for target ship boarding
• an internal airplane-sized docking airlock, for aircraft

Notes

• This version of Captain Squidd, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022-2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.
• Enemy of the Blackhawks.
• The "Cuttlefish" was Captain Squidd's own invention, the work of a lifetime.

Related

• 1 Appearances of Captain Squidd (Quality Universe)
• 1 Images featuring Captain Squidd (Quality Universe)
• 1 Quotations by or about Captain Squidd (Quality Universe)
• Character Gallery: Captain Squidd (Quality Universe)

Footnotes

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