Firebrand (Marvel Comics)

Firebrand
Firebrand (Gary Gilbert)
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Iron Man vol. 1 #27 (Jul 1970)
Created by	Archie Goodwin (Writer) Don Heck (Artist)
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Alter ego	Gary Gilbert
Abilities	Powered armor grants: Superhuman strength Flight via flying jets Thermal blasts via flamethrowers Resistance to fire

Firebrand
Firebrand (Broxtel)
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Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Web of Spider-Man Vol 1 #77 (June, 1991)
Created by	Archie Goodwin (Writer) Don Heck (Artist)
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Alter ego	Russ Broxtel
Team affiliations	Force of Nature
Abilities	Powered armor grants: Superhuman strength Flight via flying jets Thermal blasts via flamethrowers Resistance to fire

Firebrand
Firebrand (Rick Dennison)
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Iron Man Vol 3 #4 (May, 1998)
Created by	Kurt Busiek (Writer) Sean Chen (Artist)
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Alter ego	Richard L. "Rick" Dennison
Species	Human Mutate
Team affiliations	The Flaming Sword Terra Tactics Masters of Evil
Notable aliases	Project: Firebrand
Abilities	Heat ray projection of thousands of degrees Cybernetic harness which could reconfigure itself into different modes

Firebrand is the codename of different fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Three of them were normal humans inside powered armor and relied on fire-based weapons; one was a mutated human.

Firebrand first appeared in Iron Man vol. 1 #27 (July 1970), and was created by Archie Goodwin and Don Heck. The character subsequently appeared in Iron Man #48 (July 1972), #59 (June 1973), #74-75 (May–June 1975), #77 (August 1975), #80-81 (November–December 1975), #172 (July 1983), and was killed by the Scourge of the Underworld in Captain America #318-319 (June–July 1986). Firebrand received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #17.

Gary Gilbert was born in Detroit, Michigan. A superpowered enforcer for corrupt industrialist Justin Hammer, as Firebrand he is a former radical activist saboteur who turned to violence after believing peaceful protest produced no results.

Firebrand accidentally killed his own father. He also won the Black Lama's "War of the Supervillains". He then fell to alcoholism and gave up political activism only to work for other villains because he "needed the work". He later gave up his costumed identity and became a "supervillain agent", brokering employment for other costumed villains.

When news of the Scourge of the Underworld's initial wave of supervillain murders spread among the criminal community, Gilbert took it upon himself to gather several costumed criminals for a meeting to determine what should be done about this menace. The meeting, held at an abandoned tavern in Medina County, Ohio, known among the criminal underworld as "The Bar With No Name", turned out to be a massacre, as Scourge infiltrated the event disguised as a bartender; a few minutes into the meeting, Scourge slaughtered every criminal present, including Gilbert, with machine gun fire.