Difference between revisions of "Wildcat"

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- Ted Grant grew up the son of father Henry Grant, an only child to a single father, his mother having died during childbirth. Not wanting his son to grow up timid and fragile, Henry encouraged Ted to participate in any sports he could well into college.

- While in college, Ted's father died, leaving him bereft of any financial support. Unfortunately for Ted, his athletic ability was not capable of sustaining him through scholarships, and his academic aspirations were not his strong suit, so left college soon finding himself penniless and hungry on the streets.

- One night, Ted came to the rescue of heavywight champion "Socker" Smith who took him in to be his sparring partner. Smith's manager Skinner trained Ted, and this is when Ted found that he took to boxing like a fish to water. It was his time training with Skinner and Smith that Ted found his first love of boxing.

- Unfortunately for Ted Grant, Skinner owed some big debts and decided to pay them off by rigging the fight between Ted and his mentor, Smith. The match went wrong and Smith died; with all evidence pointing towards Ted Grant, he became a fugitive from the law. Thus, Wildcat was born.

- While clearing his name, Ted Grant found a taste for being Wildcat. While he returned to the boxing ring as the heavyweight champion, he continued to moonlight as Wildcat, both in the fighting circuit and as a hero.

- Eventually, Ted Grant met up with one of his childhood heroes, Alan Scott, and became part of the Justice Society. Here he developed many of the friendships and relationships that still survive to this day.

- As Ted Grant found himself getting older, he found himself mentoring some of the up and coming heroes in the Justice Society and Justice League, as well as those who sought him out for his skill. However, his star pupil was Dinah Lance; even though she had trained with many others, Wildcat was able to find a fighting style that worked for the young woman, which became the core of her training.

- Following the Thangarian invasion, Wildcat found himself as part of the Justice League as both the Justice League and the Justice Society merged. While he was on the semi-active roster of heroes, he found his presence on any missions less and less. This type of idle time grated on Wildcat and he craved more action, and so got himself involved in an underground Metabrawl, run by Roulette. he became so mired into the fighting circuit that it took Black Canary and the Green Arrow to break him of his psychosis.

- Still wishing to play a part in training the new heroes, Ted has stayed a member of the Justice League to train any that wish to learn from him. Of course, he still participates with his old teammates from the Justice Society as they need him, always willing to lend a hand.