Owen Mercer is a comic book character existing in the DC Comics' main shared universe. He is the son of the original Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness) and Meloni Thawne.
Owen shares many relations to various superheroes and supervillains. His father is supervillain Captain Boomerang; his half-brothers are the Flash, Bart Allen, and supervillain Inertia; and two of his ancestors are Professor Zoom and Cobalt Blue, himself the twin brother of Bar...
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Owen Mercer is a comic book character existing in the DC Comics' main shared universe. He is the son of the original Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness) and Meloni Thawne.
Owen shares many relations to various superheroes and supervillains. His father is supervillain Captain Boomerang; his half-brothers are the Flash, Bart Allen, and supervillain Inertia; and two of his ancestors are Professor Zoom and Cobalt Blue, himself the twin brother of Barry Allen.
During the beginning of the Identity Crisis storyline, Digger Harkness found himself an obsolete villain in the modern world of supervillains. Regularly going up to the supervillain satellite looking for jobs, asking favors from the Calculator, he was at the end of his rope looking for a job to put him on the map again.
During this time he felt it was finally time to reach out to the son he never raised, Owen Mercer. Before Harkness's death, the two bonded. Taking up his father's legacy, he became the second Captain Boomerang....
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