CHASE

Real Name: Cameron Chase

Class: Human mutant

Occupation: D.E.O. agent, former P.I.

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Terry Chase (sister), Walter Chase (Acro-Bat, father, deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: NYC, NY, formerly San Francisco, CA

First Appearance: Batman I #550 (January, 1998)

Powers: Chase was a skilled detective armed with firearms, and she possessed latent pyrokinetic powers.

History:  Cameron's father was, unbeknownst to his family, the masked hero Acro-Bat. When Cameron was seven her father died at the hands of Dr. Trapp, and her world crumbled around her. She grew to hate all superhumans, heroes and villains alike.

(Martian Manhunter II #4, 5) - Chase and the D.E.O. took over jurisdiction of the murder investigation of Karen Smith, the prime suspect for which was Martian Manhunter. Searching Smith s computer records she learned that Martian Manhunter used the human identity of P.I. John Jones. Chase and her partner Jim Tully interviewed witnesses to a battle between Manhunter and Ron Gomz. Tully revealed to Chase that he was actually the Martian Manhunter, and told her he had to be severe with Gomz and remove an ebola incubator in his body to save Denver. Realizing Manhunter aided her case and didn't impede it, she decided he was innocent of Smith s murder.

(Martian Manhunter II #6) - Director Bones was displeased that Martian Manhunter was able to infiltrate the D.E.O. and gave Chase the job of uncovering every one of Manhunter s human identities.

(Martian Manhunter II #8) - Chase continued her investigation of Karen Smith's murder and contacted the JLA, demanding their files on Martian Manhunter.

(Martian Manhunter II #10) - Chase broke into John Jones office an found a complete list of Martian Manhunter s human identities, a peace offering he gave to Karen Smith before she died. She interviewed Fire to learn more about Manhunter. Chase pretended to be a magazine columnist until she d gotten all the info she needed from Fire. When she revealed she was investigating Manhunter for the D.E.O., Fire told her she d just made an enemy.

(Martian Manhunter II #17) - The D.E.O. started tailing Martian Manhunter s various identities, and Chase set up a meeting between Manhunter and Bones. Manhunter refused to go to work for the D.E.O. so Bones made Chase call a press conference and reveal Manhunters various identities to the world. There was huge fallout because Manhunter helped so many in his secret identities, and the D.E.O. placed the blame on Chase, claiming she acted without authorization. Chase told Manhunter she d left out revealing some of his identities because she had a feeling Bones made her do the conference for plausible deniability sake, and she was also honoring her father, who Manhunter worked with in the Justice Experience.

(Martian Manhunter II #36) - Bones called Chase to warn her that Dr. Trapp had escaped prison and was gunning for her. Trapp broke into her house and told her he regretted not killing her when she was a child. Martian Manhunter incapacitated Trapp, but Chase was reay to shoot him in cold blood until Manhunter convinced her to rise above her pain.

(Flash Secret Files #3) - Chase and the D.E.O. were keeping tabs on Gorilla Grodd in Africa, and Chase made lots of  talking monkey jokes about Grodd. She spoke to Flash III to learn more about Grodd, and he warned Chase that Grodd was a monster and not to be underestimated. When Grodd started a base in Florida the D.E.O. went after him, even though Chase warned them that all the information from Africa wasn't in. The next day she received Mossad intel that Grodd used a bacterial agent to decimate an African village. She tried to contact the D.E.O. agents after Grodd, but most of them had been killed before Grodd s capture.

(Green Arrow III #25 (BTS), Green Lantern III #164) - After members of the Black Circle Syndicate, interstellar drug dealers, were defeated by Green Arrow Connor Hawke and Black Canary, Chase and the D.E.O. took them into custody.

Comments: Created by Dan Curtis Johnson & J.H. Williams III.

Chase received a profile in DCU Heroes Secret Files #1.

There were pin-ups of Chase in Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery #1.