Contents 1 HistoryEdit 1.1 Early History 1.2 One Year Later 2 Powers and AbilitiesEdit 2.1 Powers 2.2 Abilities 3 ParaphernaliaEdit 3.1 Equipment 4 Related 5 LinksEdit 5.1 Discover and Discuss 5.2 Footnotes

HistoryEdit

Early History

Gardner Grayle was a sergeant in the army. His platoon was the infamous Platoon 13 and its symbol was a knight. Feverishly opposed to nuclear war, Grayle volunteered for a virtual reality experiment to see how people would react to a post atomic war world. Within this experiment, Grayle believed that the adventures of the Atomic Knights were only a dream. After emerging from the experiment, Grayle donned a S.T.A.R. Labs battle suit and declared himself a modern knight in shining armor, briefly becoming the second Shining Knight and serving with the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

After a mildly successful career as a superhero, Grayle took a job at S.T.A.R. When he received a premonition from the goddess Cassandra, Grayle proceeded to use his new technical know-how to build his atomic armor. He then joined the Forgotten Heroes, who contacted Darkseid to enlist his help against the Anti-Monitor.

Afterwards, he joined the Outsiders until its disbanding. The Outsiders would later reform, but were considered fugitives after being framed for the slaughter of a Markovian village (home country to Outsider Geo-Force). First he hunted the team down but was ultimately convinced of their innocence and was able to clear their name to the rest of the world. With the Outsiders, he also fell in love with fellow Outsider Windfall and they were seen together at Geo-Force's wedding. Beyond just his Atomic Knight armor, Gardner also had the power to see the future.

One Year Later

Gardner Grayle became the leader of an underground band of new Atomic Knights operating within the burned-out city of Blüdhaven. There were roughly 125 of these Knights (the main Knights were Grayle, Marene and Doug Herald, Bryndon Smith, and Wayne and Hollis Hobard), working with a group called the Roundtable. The Roundtable had an advanced database which recognized known metahumans, even obscure ones. The Atomic Knights were posing as refugees using advanced cloaking technology, and their Atomic Knight armor had numerous powers including the ability to record complex data and analyze any structures. There was also a Black Baron oppressing the refugees of Blüdhaven, a former pimp and drug dealer who gained metahuman powers after the Blüdhaven destruction, but he was killed by Monolith, or more likely punched into the next state.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

• Precognition

Abilities

• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
• Firearms
  

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

• Atomic Knight Armor

• Enhanced Strength
• Enhanced Strength
• Enhanced Endurance
• Energy Projection

Related

• 23 Appearances of Gardner Grayle (New Earth)
• 4 Images featuring Gardner Grayle (New Earth)
• Quotations by or about Gardner Grayle (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Gardner Grayle (New Earth)

LinksEdit

 

• Gardner Grayle (New Earth) at Wikipedia.org 
• DC Comics Encyclopedia

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Footnotes

Outsiders

Membership Arsenal • Atomic Knight • Batgirl • Batman • Black Lightning • Captain Boomerang, Jr. • Captain Marvel, Jr. • Catwoman • Creeper • Dervish • Doctor Light • Eradicator • Faust • Francine Langstrom • Geo-Force • Grace Choi • Green Arrow • Halo • Huntress • Indigo • Jade • Katana • Looker • Martian Manhunter • Metamorpho • Nightwing • Owlman • REMAC • Shift • Starfire • Technocrat • Terra • Thunder • Windfall • Wylde Villains Agent Orange • Bad Samaritan • Baron Bedlam • Brother Blood • Doctor Sivana • Duke of Oil • Fearsome Five • Felix Faust • Force of July • Masters of Disaster • New Olympians • Nuclear Family • People's Heroes • Sabbac • Strike Force Kobra • Suicide Squad Storylines CheckOut • The Chrysalis • Crisis Intervention • The Deep • Five of a Kind • The Good Fight • The Great Divide • The Hunt • The Insiders • Looking for Trouble • Outsiders No More • Pay As You Go • The Road to Hell • The Snare • Sum of All Evil • Wanted Comics Adventures of the Outsiders • Batman and the Outsiders (Vol. 1) • Batman and the Outsiders (Vol. 2) • Outsiders (Vol. 1) • Outsiders (Vol. 2) • Outsiders (Vol. 3) • Outsiders (Vol. 4) • Outsiders: Five of a Kind Miscellaneous Origins • Publication History • Recommended Reading This box: view • talk • edit

Atomic Knights member This character is or was a member of the Atomic Knights, in any of their incarnations. This template will automatically categorize articles that include it into the "Atomic Knights members" category.

Outsiders member This character is or was primarily a member of the super-hero team known as the Outsiders, in any of its various incarnations. They are a black ops team dedicated to fighting evil and taking the fall in public opinion that bigger groups like the Justice League cannot, started by Batman to avoid being crippled by public relations needs. This template will categorize articles that include it into the "Outsiders members" category.

Seven Soldiers of Victory member This character is or was a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, or the Seven Soldiers in any of its various incarnations, created by the United States to defend itself from World War II and later it returned to battle time traveling, dimension spanning mysteries and monsters. This template will categorize articles that include it into the "Seven Soldiers of Victory members" category.

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