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Also known as Floyd Lawton

Deadshot is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer David Vern Reed and artist Lew Sayre Schwartz based on a concept from Bob Kane, the character first appeared in Batman #59 (1950). Introduced as a gun-toting criminal in a tuxedo, top hat, and domino mask, Deadshot was only intended to be a one-off villain for the superhero Batman, but writer Steve Englehart and artist Marshall Rogers revived, redesigned, and popularized the character in Detective Comics #474 (1977), which featured the debut of his wrist-mounted guns, reticle emblem, and mask

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Deadshot
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Textless cover of Secret Six (vol. 3) #15 (January 2010). Art by Daniel LuVisi.
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Deadshot stands in costume holding a rifle as bullets rain down from above
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DC Comics
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Batman #59 (June 1950)
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David Vern Reed (writer)Lew Sayre Schwartz (artist)Bob Kane (concept)
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Floyd Lawton
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Master marksman Expert assassin Adept hand-to-hand combatant Utilizes battlesuit equipped with wrist-mounted guns and a high-tech targeting sight
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Deadshot
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Deadshot is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer David Vern Reed and artist Lew Sayre Schwartz based on a concept from Bob Kane, the character first appeared in Batman #59 (1950). Introduced as a gun-toting criminal in a tuxedo, top hat, and domino mask, Deadshot was only intended to be a one-off villain for the superhero Batman, but writer Steve Englehart and artist Marshall Rogers revived, redesigned, and popularized the character in Detective Comics #474 (1977), which featured the debut of his wrist-mounted guns, reticle emblem, and mask with a built-in targeting sight that have since become Deadshot's visual motif. This revamped depiction of the character has endured as one of Batman's most recurring enemies belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.

Deadshot is the alias of Floyd Lawton, a mercenary with a death wish who possesses uncanny, near-superhuman accuracy and regularly boasts of never missing a shot. Regarded as the greatest marksman and one of the deadliest assassins in the DC Universe, Deadshot has come into conflict with various heroes, including Batman, Green Arrow, and the Justice League. The character has also been depicted as an antihero as a core member of the Suicide Squad, a task force of supervillains coerced by the U.S. government into executing black ops missions and neutralizing more dangerous threats in exchange for reduced prison sentences and, in Deadshot's case, support for his estranged daughter Zoe.

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