Cindy Brand

Cindy Brand - AKA Scorcher - is a young woman with fire-based superpowers. She was once friends with the Scare Tactics group, but turned against them after an incident in New Mexico, choosing to work with the government to help capture the gang.

Name:

Cindy Brand

Publisher:

DC Comics

Real name:

Cindy Brand

Aliases:

Scorcher
Prodigy 31

Birth date:

None

Gender:

Female

Powers:

Fire Control
Flame Breath

First issue:

Catwoman Plus #1 Scream Queen

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Origin

Although her first appearance is in Scare Tactics #3, the story of how Cindy came to know the Scare Tactics gang is not shown until Catwoman Plus #1, in the extra story "Wild Things".

Cindy was incarcerated at the same facility in New Mexico where the other members of the group were being held, after each had been captured by a shady government organization named R-Complex dedicated to the supernatural (Operation Prodigy). Arnold Burnsteel attempted to free the young monsters, but only managed to save four - in the rush of events, Cindy was left behind.

Creation

Cindy Brand was created by Len Kaminski, Andy Lanning and Anthony Williams.

Character Evolution

After the events at the New Mexico facility, Cindy is angry, feeling betrayed and abandoned. She later says that the government did horrible things to her after the others left, things so unbearable that she agrees to work with them, rather than suffer any more. When she eventually catches up to the rest of the Scare Tactics group she is furious, and almost helps the government to capture them. She lets them go, though, when she realizes that she cannot allow anyone to go through what she did.