Alvin Healey (Earth-616)

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Tenpin

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Real Name

Alvin Healey

Current Alias

Tenpin

Identity

Public

Alignment

Bad

Affiliation

Death-Throws

Relatives

Elton Healey (Oddball, brother, deceased)

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Mobile

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Hair

Brown

Unusual Features

Goatee

Status

Citizenship

American

Occupation

Professional criminal, juggler

Origin

Origin

Expert juggler

Place of Birth

Reno, Nevada

Creators

Mark Gruenwald, Paul Neary

First appearance

Captain America #317
(May, 1986)

History

Alvin Healey and his brother Elton were born in Reno, Nevada.

Being young, both Elton and Alvin stood out when juggling. They called the attention of a Charles Last, who wanted to recruit them for a new gang of customed criminals: The Death-Throws. Under the leadership of Last, they were both customed mercenaries and jugglers. They took advantage of their juggling skills and used throwing weapons. Last became the Ringleader. Elton adopted the name of Oddball due to his looney nature, and his tenpin-throwing brother became Tenpin. The fourth member of the team was Knicknack.

Although the Death-Throws valued teamwork more than other villain groups, Oddball suddenly broke up with the Death-Throws for unknown reasons. He began working solo, or at least without his usual partners. Tenpin went after him and found him just in time to help him escape from the police. At this time, Oddball had met another customed criminal juggler, Bombshell, and had convinced her to join the Death-Throws. Tenpin helped both of them.

Oddball's previous boss Crossfire contacted the Death-Throws from jail. He wanted the jugglers to release him, and agreed to pay them when he was freed. The Ringleader accepted the deal, and Tenpin and the other Death-Throws worked together to free Crossfire. However, once they had taken Crossfire to their own HQ, they discovered that Crossfire was broke. His assets had been impounded and he had lost any useful link with Cross Technologies. The Death-Throws decided to use Crossfire as a bait to attract Hawkeye and Captain America to a trap, but the two Avengers defeated all of the Death-Throws. Tenpin and his partners went to jail.

Although Oddball was killed in Madripoor, Tenpin continued serving with the Death-Throws, and recently fought Union Jack.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

None

Abilities

Expert juggler (specialising in bowling pins)

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Tenpin uses specially-weighted bowling pins as throwing blunt weapons. Sometimes he lights them to cause additional damage. He carries the tenpins and any needed material (such as matches) in a backpack.

Notes

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Trivia

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See Also

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