Name: Black Hand
Universe: Earth-1
Alter Ego: William Hand
Occupation: Professional Criminal
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Known Relatives: Peter, David, Joseph (brothers)
Height: 5 ft. 9 in.
Weight: 167 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
First Appearance: Green Lantern #29

History:
A professional criminal nearly all his life, Hand turned to crime as an abnormal reaction to his lineage, the wealthy and respectable Hand family of Coastville, California. Resenting his family's prestige and position, Hand became determined to drag the Hand name through the mud.

He therefore became a super-criminal who developed a means of absorbing energy from Green Lantern's power ring and who based his criminal methods on the wisdom of old maxims (which others would term cliches).

Powers:
While Hand possesses no true super-powers, he is blessed with a photographic memory with which he is able to recall at will every item recorded in a book he has spent the bulk of his life compiling. The book contains the solution to any possible problem a criminal could confront.

A talented technician, Hand has also built a device capable of absorbing radiation residue, specifically the radiation of Green Lantern's power ring, from objects upon which Green Lantern has used his power ring energy. Hand is then able to utilize this energy himself, directing it through a rod-like mechanism he carries in his hand.

Hand is not a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, but his power-rod and his scientific expertise make him a foe to be reckoned with.

Hand's single affectation is a fascination with cliche sayings, and he has based many of his crimes on these old adages.