JOHN RAYMOND

          PERSONAL DATA          

REAL NAME: Jonathan Raymond 
ALIASES: The Web 

AFFILIATIONS: Battle Squadron 

RELATIVES: Rose Raymond (wife), Tim (brother) 

MARITAL STATUS: Divorced 

CLASS: Normal human 

LIVING STATUS: Alive 

REALITY: Earth-164A 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Zip City, Alabama 

CAUSE OF DEATH: NA 

ALIGNMENT: Good 

IDENTITY: Secret 

CITIZENSHIP: Citizen of USA 
OCCUPATION: Criminology professor, writer, adventurer 
EDUCATION: City College of New York 
BASE OF OPERATIONS: NYC 

KNOWN ENEMIES: Black Dragon Society, Count Berlín, Captain Murder 
CREATORS: John Cassone 
FIRST APPEARANCE: Zip Comics #27 (1942) 

          PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS          

GENDER: Male 

HEIGHT: 5' 10" 
WEIGHT: 180 lbs 
EYES: Green 

HAIR: Ginger 

UNUSUAL FEATURES: NA 

          HISTORY          

Jonathan Raymond and his brother Timothy were opposite sides of the same coin. While Jon was a good son and a model student, Tim was a juvenile delinquent, who would end up in jail. To try to understand his brother's behavior and perhaps even prevent it, Jonny studied criminology and became a well-known college professor in that field (as well as a successful mystery writer). However, the theory was not enough for him, so he developed a masked personality, the Web, with which he fought crime every night in a more prosaic way. During one of his adventures, he rescued Rose Wayne, a former student of Raymond, who would eventually discover his secret identity and become his lover and confidant. Raymond joined the Battle Squadron in 1942 and after the war he married Rose and dropped out of the mask. His memoirs became a best-selling book. 

          POWERS & WEAPONS          

Raymond was an advanced jiu-jitsu practitioner and a natural acrobat. He used suction cups attached to the soles of his boots to allow him to walk on walls and hang from ceilings. He also used a gun that could launch a cable for going from building to building or a web for catching his opponents.