Who Is Firehair? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Firehair is a DC Comics comic book character, with over 47 comic issue appearances. A superb athlete, Firehair was also an expert horseman and marksman, unequaled with bow and arrows.

Who is Firehair?

Origin Young Firehair being teased by the youths of the Blackfoot Tribe In the early 19th century, a wagon train traveling west across the Great Plains was attacked and massacred by a tribe of Blackfoot Indians who were afraid the white men would bring an end to their way of life. The only survivor of the attack was a blue - eyed, red-haired infant boy who was spared from death and then adopted by the powerful Grey Cloud, chief of the tribe. On the night before the raid, the tribes shaman had seen omens in the smoke of their camp fire, images of a great warrior who would not look like any other warrior of the Blackfeet, and who would be despised by his own people and by those he sought to help. Grey Cloud believed this boy might be the one of whom the shaman had spoken. As the years passed, young Firehair was shunned by his peers for his pale skin and flaming hair. Tutored by the tribal elders in the ways of the Plains Indians, Firehair excelled in his lessons, feeling he had to do more than his contemporaries to prove himself a chief's son. Eventually he could out-wrestle, out-run and out-shoot (with bow and arrow) any of the boys his own age. On the eve of his 18th birthday, Fire.

Key facts

Firehair is of human origin and first appeared in "I Don't Belong Here.... I Don't Belong There!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 47 recorded issue appearances, Firehair ranks among the most featured characters in comics.