REAL NAME: William Richard Norris
OCCUPATION: Adventurer, vigilante, lawyer
IDENTITY: Secret
CLASS: Human magic user
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA
OTHER ALIASES: Will, King of the Graveyard
PLACE OF BIRTH: Nedor Pines, USA
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: Richard Norris (deceased father), Shannon Norris (deceased mother), Bill Norris (grandfather)
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Norris, Hughes & Francis Law Firm
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE: Fighting Yank #7 (Feb. 1944)
HEIGHT: 6' 2"
WEIGHT: 220 lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Brown reddish
When the Nazis occupied France, William's grandfather, for whom he is named, was studying at the Sorbonne, the famous university in Paris. He joined the French resistance to fight against Nazi tyranny under the code name The Grim Reaper. His calling card was the death tarot card. The Grim Reaper took his fight even behind enemy lines, in Germany and for some time, he became number one on the Gestapo's most wanted list. When the war ended, Will's grandfather returned to the United States, obtained a law degree, married, and founded Norris, Hughes & Francis Law Firm. He had a son, Rick, who went into medicine. Rick married Shannon and later William would be born. When William was only 11 years old, his parents took him to the cinema to see Batman (1989). Ironically, on the way back home, Rick and Shannon, Will's parents, were robbed and killed before the young boy's eyes.
He was left in the custody of his grandfather, who has since trained him to become a fighter. Will graduated in criminology and law and then his grandfather, knowing the fire that had run through his veins since the murder of his parents, showed him something he had found many years ago in a castle that served as a gestapo headquarters in Germany: a gloomy shroud, the Tarnkappe, Sigmund's mythical cloak. According to legend, it gave inhuman strength and the ability to render its wearer invisible. "If you really want to do what I think you want to do, you're going to need this." With the help of his grandfather, he created the masked identity of The Grim Reaper and became the terror of the underworld. During his adventures, Will met Shannon Kane, another costumed adventurer nicknamed the Spider Queen. Shannon and Will fell in love and have been partners ever since.
POWERS & WEAPONS
The Grim Reaper is an Olympic level athlete with extensive training in several styles of martial arts, and is adept at acrobatics, infiltration and criminology. Siegfried's Magic Cloak (Tarnkappe) gives William the strength of twelve men and the ability to turn invisible.
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