Joshua Clay (New Earth)

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Tempest

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Real Name

Joshua Clay

Current Alias

Tempest

Aliases

Jonathan Carmichael

Identity

Secret

Affiliation

Doom Patrol

Universe

New Earth

Base Of Operations

Mobile

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

6' 1"

Weight

203 lbs (92 kg)

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Black

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Physician

Education

Medical School Graduate

Origin

Origin

Place of Birth

Brownsville area of Brooklyn, New York

Creators

Paul Kupperberg, Joe Staton

First appearance

Showcase #94

History

Early years

A member of the second Doom Patrol, Joshua Clay is the first hero to use the name Tempest. Along with Captain Comet, he is one of the few heroes initially identified as a mutant.

Joshua Clay was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children. His parents struggled to keep their family together in the middle of what was at that time one of the worst slums in the country. At sixteen, Clay joined a street gang called the Stompers, and eventually, as a result, wound up being given a choice between prison and service in the United States Military. Clay chose the army and was trained as a combat medic and shipped off to combat.

Less than a month before the end of his tour, Clay witnessed the attempted massacre of an entire village of non-combatants by his sergeant. Horrified, Clay unconsciously triggered his powers, blasting the noncom, apparently killing the man. The stress of this discovery led Clay to go AWOL and fled the country, eventually returning to the U.S. Clay spent the next ten years living as a fugitive. The sergeant eventually becomes Reactron, a repeated foe of the Doom Patrol.

Hero

Arani Caulder tracks down Clay and enlists him as a member of the new Doom Patrol. Clay stays active within this incarnation of the Doom Patrol for a year before it disbands due to internal dissent. Swearing off superheroics, Clay uses his underworld connections secure a new identity for himself as Jonathan Carmichael, M.D. Due to years of private study and his previous military training, he easily passes his New York medical board examination. As Carmichael, using funds borrowed from a local loan shark, he purchases a small Park Avenue medical practice and lives a quiet, respectable life treating rich hypochondriacs. Robotman tracks Clay down. Due to Steele's threat to reveal Clay's true identity to the medical board, he reluctantly returns to superheroics. He again retires from active service to become the team's physician.

Clay is murdered by a temporarily deranged Niles Caulder (The Chief). Whether his death has been undone by the events of Infinite Crisis like the deaths of other Doom Patrol members is unknown.

Note

• Two years after Clay's death, a man named Martin Ellis, who looks like the Steve Lightle rendition of Clay, wakes from a seven year coma with an active metagene. In combat with Captain Atom, Ellis exhibits the same powers as Clay. Ellis reunites with his wife Yvonne at the end of the story. This was his only appearance.
  

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Kinetic energy blast, art by James Fry

Kenetic Energy Blasts:

• Clay can generate and radiate powerful blasts from his hands, able to melt steel.
• Tempest can control his blasts' volume and intensity to the extent that he can ignite the head of a match from twenty feet away.

Tempest flying, art by James Fry

Abilities

• Trained as a combat medic by the U.S. Army, he later becomes a licensed physician.
  
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• No special notes.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Joshua Clay (New Earth) on the forums

• Appearances of Joshua Clay (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Joshua Clay (New Earth)
  
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Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• Joshua Clay at Wikipedia.org
  

Footnotes