Weaponry
Jack-in-the-Box’s basic arsenal consists of his "footapaults" and "handsprings", entangling streamers, and "electro-noses". His footapaults are telescoping boots capable of catapulting him into the air and leaping him rapidly through and over a variety of terrains and urban environments. (Sometimes, covers will show them also acting as stilts, while the actual stories only portray them as being used to make leaps.) Similarly, his handsprings are telescoping gloves which extend his reach and grip (and punch). He can also project from them a multicolored plastic solution which solidifies on contact with the air into streamers, and can be used to impede and ensnare his foes, much like the web-fluid of Marvel’s Spider-Man. His "electro-noses" are rubber clown noses which, when deftly applied to an opponent’s face, delivers a jolt from a built-in electroshock weapon, knocking them unconscious.
Jack also carries a purse-like satchel which may carry other devices or equipment as necessary, such as a freezing device he once jerry-rigged from some air compressors and cans of refrigerant. While the first Jack-in-the-Box stories always showed both Jacks with this satchel, current Astro City stories show the original Jack without it, suggesting a retcon which makes the satchel an add-on by Zachary.
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