Powers and Abilities
8-Ball was a brilliant engineer with an advanced degree in engineering, who created a four-man hovercraft in the shape of pool rack and led a gang of costumed villains, named also after pool balls. He designed a cue stick equipped with mechanisms enabling it to amplify the force applied to objects it strikes a thousand times over, turning them into potentially lethal missiles. 8-Ball was known to use everything from tires to dumpsters to cars as weapons in this manner. The cover to Sleepwalker #2 portrays him blasting an entire telephone booth at the hero. 8-Ball also used explosive grenades and fireworks, a round floating hovercraft, and flying miniature cameras, all painted to resemble billiard balls.
8-Ball is a skilled gymnast, expert pool player, experienced designer of missile propulsion systems, and a gifted inventor.
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Death his deaths wound shall then receive, & stoop
*nglorious, of his mortall sting disarm’d.
I through the ample Air in Triumph high
Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show
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