Alter Ego: Jim Harper
Occupation: police officer, Metropolis PD, retired; head of Project Cadmus security
Marital Status: presumed single
Known Relatives: Mary Harper( sister, deceased ), unnamed brother, Roy Harper( nephew, presumed deceased ), Roy Harper, Jr. ( great-nephew ), Lian Harper ( great-grand niece ), Roberta "Famous Bobby" Harper( grand-niece )
Group Affiliation: All-Star Squadron
Base of Operations: Suicide Slum, Metropolis, DE, later Project Cadmus
Current Status: deceased, but cloned
Height: 6'1" Weight: 203 lbs.
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: brown
First Appearance: Star-Spangled Comics# 7, April, 1942
.....Jim Harper and his family grew up poor in the roughest neighborhood in Metropolis. Nicknamed "Suicide Slum", the ghettos and tenaments of the Depression Era gave little hope. Running the streets with his gang and his friend Leo, Jimmy Harper was persuaded by a physical trainer named Joe Morgan ( who was using the name "Nat Mulligan" ) that physical fitness and education would give young Harper the lift out of the slums he needed. "Mulligan" hoped the young boy would become an athlete and as his trainer, his unorthadox holistic training methods would be recognized as better than the ones currently used.
.....After several months, Jim was ready to start his professional atheletic career, but on a return trip to the old neighborhood, ran into Leo, who had become a hoodlum. On the run from other gangsters, Leo was shot and died in Jim's arms. Deciding that he could do more good trying to help the community. Nat, on hearing his decision, knew he had lost another shot at training a world champion and faded from Jim's life.
.....Realizing that he could do a lot of good as a policeman, Jim applied to the police acadamy and after graduation, requested to be assigned to Suicide Slum. On his first day as a patrolman, he stopped a gang of orphaned newsboys from robbing a local merchant. Later that day, he also ran afoul of some gangsters who roughed him up. Making his way to a costume shop, he disguised himself and picked up a crash helmet and a large golden shield, roughly shaped like a policemen's badge. Stopping the crooks, Jim was ready to get rid of his disguise, when other heroes who had also been trained by Joe Morgan/Nat Mulligan, along with several members of the All-Star Squadron defeated a possessed and crazed Joe. Figuring he could also do good as a costumed mystery-man, Jim began his second career as The Guardian.
.....The orphaned newsboys, who went by the name The Newsboy Legion, were ready to be sentenced by a judge to a reformatory. Seeing how Nat had taken him and molded him into a useful member of society, he decided to do the same and became the boy's "guardian" as well.
.....Over the following years, the Newsboys and The Guardian became a force for reform in the Slum, helping the poor and needy, fending off the preying evil of crime and greed that washed over the downtrodden citizens of Suicide Slum.
.....As Harper neared his retirement from the police force, he quit as The Guardian and took a position as Security Chief at a secret government project to explore the human genetic structure. Project Cadmus was directed by the grown members of The Newsboy Legion, reunited after becoming sucessful adults and leaders in their fields of science and medicine. One experiment, to discover the genetic causes of crime, led to Harper being shot by a criminal from his old neighborhood who had been brought into the Project. His former wards didn't want to see him die, so they tried a technique that would grow him a new body, younger and stronger than before, but replace/overlay his memories onto that body. Sucessful, the revitalized Guardian ( sometimes called The Golden Guardian ), maintained his leadership as Security Head of Project Cadmus until recently. He was also a leader of a squadron of fighters in the recent Imperiax war.
.....The Guardian was trained in many forms of fighting, and excelled at gymnastics, thinking quick on his feet and had good deductive abilites.
.....As a clone, the "second" Harper had greater strength, increased reflexes and his healing factor was increased greatly.
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