Punch and Jewelee
| Punch and Jewelee | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Charlton Comics DC Comics |
| First appearance | Historical: Captain Atom (1st series) #85 (March 1967) Modern: Secret Origins #28 |
| Created by | Steve Ditko |
| In-story information | |
| Team affiliations |
Injustice League Secret Society of Super Villains Suicide Squad |
| Abilities | Punch: Air shoes, sting strings Jewelee: Hypnotic gems, Energy gems |
Punch and Jewelee are supervillains in the DC Universe. They originally battled Captain Atom and Nightshade and later joined the Suicide Squad.
Punch and Jewlie first appeared in Secret Origins #28 and were created by Steve Ditko.
The couple that is known as Punch and Jewelee are considered two of the silliest criminals active today by most superheroes. Most people consider them clods and do not take them seriously, but discounting them is a mistake, since they are completely amoral individuals who act as much on whim as on any other motivation. This makes them quite unpredictable and dangerous.
The couple grew up together in Brooklyn and went into business as puppeteers at Coney Island, moonlighting as thieves. One day, they found a small box containing alien weaponry left behind by careless extraterrestrials. They quickly learned how to use the weapons. Since they had always been puppeteers, they decided to adapt the characters of Punch and Judy to themselves. Calling themselves Punch and Jewelee, they began a brief criminal career along the East Coast.
In the original stories prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the duo battled Nightshade and Captain Atom. Following the Crisis, it was retconned to reveal that Nightshade's partner was King Faraday, and not Captain Atom.
Not long afterwards, Amanda Waller recruited Punch and Jewelee for a mission with the Suicide Squad, a team of "expendable" super-operatives. The demented duo went along with the Squad, but seemed more interested in entertaining each other with pure silliness than with the business at hand, and soon exhibited a disturbing propensity for violence.
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