REAL NAME: Otto Erich Wilhelm Joachim Von Tugendhaft
OCCUPATION: Baron, Nazi officer
IDENTITY: Public
CLASS: Surgically altered human
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of Nazi Germany
OTHER ALIASES: Baron Von Tug, Herr Geierklaue
PLACE OF BIRTH: Eisenstadt, Austria
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: NA
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Nazi Party
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Nazi Germany, mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE: Cat-Man Comics vol. 3 #4 (October 1942)
HEIGHT: 6' 2"
WEIGHT: 240 lbs
EYES: Blue (left eye blinded)
HAIR: Blond
Baron Otto Erich Wilhelm Joachim Von Tugendhaft, nicknamed by the Allies as Baron Von Tug, was one of the best Nazi fighter pilots during World War II. Unfortunately for him, his plane was shot down. He survived the collision at the cost of losing his right hand, his left eye's eyesight and being horribly disfigured by terrible scars. As a reward for his sacrifice he was awarded the Iron Cross and Hitler's scientists also created a hand for him, an animal claw, which was grafted onto the stump where his lost hand used to be. The once beautiful and brilliant Nazi officer reemerged transfigured, like the angel Lucifer reborn as king of the fallen after burning in the infernal pit. Herr Geierklaue, the Vulture's Claw (the name by which he was known thereafter), became a figure who caused terror, not only among the Allied ranks, but also among his own. Von Tugendhaft met his match in the paranormal heroes of the Allied side.
POWERS & WEAPONS
The loss of his left eye's eyesight apparently did not cause a loss of faculties in Von Tugendhaft, who continued to be a very outstanding soldier and pilot. As for the claw that the Nazi scientists grafted onto him, it seemed to have superhuman strength and was capable of tearing steel as if it were paper.
