Name: Jonah Hex
Universe: Earth-1
Alter Ego: Jonah Woodson Hex
Occupation: Bounty Hunter, former Soldier, former Farmer
Marital Status: Married, later separated
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: Southwest; for a time, the Seattle area circa 2050 A.D.
Known Relatives: Woodson (father), Virginia "Ginny" (mother), Mei Ling (wife, separated), Unnamed (son), Mei Wong (brother-in-law), Mei Song (sister-in-law), Unnamed (father-in-law, deceased)
Height: 5 ft. 11 in.
Weight: 189 lbs.
Hair Color: Reddish blond
Eye Color: Blue
First Appearance: All-Star Western #10

History:
Born in 1838, Jonah Hex was one of the greatest legendary gunmen of the old West. He was the son of a brutal drunkard named Woodson Hex and his beautiful, long-suffering wife, Ginny. When Jonah was ten, his mother ran off with a traveling salesman named Preston W. Dazzleby. Jonah would not see his mother again for 27 years.

In 1851, when Jonah was 13, he and his father had gone out west for the California gold rush. Woodson sold Jonah as a slave to an Apache chief in exchange for pelts, and never returned. Jonah was miserably treated by the Apaches until, when he was 15, he saved the chief from a puma. The grateful chief freed Jonah and thereafter treated him as a son.

Jonah became the best hunter, tracker, gunman, and rider among the Apaches, and an Indian girl, White Fawn, fell in love with him. The chief's son, Noh-Tante, grew jealous of Hex. When both turned 16, they were sent to steal horses from the Kiowa Indians as a test of their worthiness as warriors. Noh-Tante knocked Jonah out, returned to the camp with the horses, and reported Hex had fought poorly and been killed.

Bounty hunters killed the Kiowas who surrounded the abandoned Hex and shot Hex as well. Jonah was nursed back to health by an old trapper. Returning to the site of the Apache camp, he found the tribe was gone.

Hex became a buffalo hunter for the U.S. Army and eventually became a U.S. Cavalry scout. When the Civil War began, Hex joined the Confederate Army and became a lieutenant in the 4th Cavalry. But after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Hex told his best friend, Jeb Turnbull, that he could no longer fight to defend a system that supported slavery against people who were trying to end it. Hex went to the Union's Fort Charlotte, and after walking right into its captain's quarters, Hex surrendered to him. Although Hex refused to say where the other Confederate soldiers were camped, an orderly figured out the location from examining the clay on Hex's horse's shoes. The Union captain had the Confederates taken by surprise, and then thanked him for his help in front of them. Hex found an escape tunnel in his cell and used it to reach the compound where Turnbull and other Union prisoners were being held. But Hex did not realize that the captain had planned all this as a means of ridding himself of prisoners he claimed he did not have enough food for. The captain's soldiers were waiting for this prison break and shot don almost all of the escaping soldiers, including Jeb. Hex survived and shot the captain. Only a handful of other Confederate soldiers escaped to safety, and they blamed the "Fort Charlotte massacre" on treachery by Hex. Jeb's father, Quentin Turnbull, vowed revenge on Hes and became his most implacable foe.

After the war, Jonah found Noh-Tante, who was now married to White Fawn. The chief decreed a trial by combat to decide whether Hex or Noh-Tante was telling the truth about the day they stole the Kiowa horses. But Noh-Tante gave Hex a tomahawk with a faulty handle, and Hex was forced to kill him with his knife to survive the combat. By killing Noh-Tante, Hex had broken Indian law. Not accepting Hex's claim that Noh-Tante cheated, the chief disowned Hex, burned scars called "the Mark of the Demon" onto his face, and expelled him from the Apache village.

Hex became the greatest bounty hunter of his day. As a result of one of Quentin Turnbull's conspiracies against him, Hex gained the enmity of the Mexican bandit chief El Papagayo, who became his other greatest foe.

Hex eventually fell in love with a young Chinese woman named Mei Ling, who asked Hex to give up hunting and killing other men for her sake. Jonah agreed, and they were married and had a son. But circumstances kept forcing Hex to use his guns against other men. Finally, after Hex went to save a young boy named Petey Foster, who was in danger, Mei Ling took their son and left Hex. Heartbroken, Hex returned to his previous way of life.

But then, in 1875, Hex was apparently teleported to the Seattle area of the year 2050 A.D. by Reinhold Borstein, a power hungry scientist. Bornstein had teleported many warriors from the past to his own time, apparently to battle each other for his own amusement. Borstein constructed his time-teleporter in 2042, used it to send a man to 2045, and learned on his return that a nuclear holocaust would occur in 2045. Taking scientific records with him, Borstein teleported himself to a point after the holocaust, planning to rule the people who remained. But he found instead that society was now dominated by a criminal alliance called the Conglomerate, which controlled "soames", a chemical means of decontaminating irradiated water. Hex escaped from Borstein and is now trying to survive in this devastated environment. It is not yet known how much of the world was ravaged by the holocaust, nor is it known whether Hex's 2050 occurs "before" or "after" all but one alternate future are "eliminated" in the so-called crisis on infinite earths.

It is known that Hex eventually returned to his own time. In 1904, when the 66-year-old Hex was cleaning his glasses, he was knocked on the head and fatally shot by George Barrow, leader of a gang of bank robbers whom Hex had killed. Lew Wheeler, owner of a Wild West Revue, shot Barrow and stole Hex's corpse, which he had treated by a taxidermist and put on exhibit in his revue. The corpse was last reported seen in the Westworld Amusement Park on the outskirts of New York City in 1972.

Powers:
Jonah Hex was an extraordinary marksman and in his prime was quite possibly the fastest draw in the West. Hex was superb in hand-to-hand combat, horseback riding, hunting, tracking, tomahawk throwing, and in using knives and lassos. While in the 21st Century, he quickly mastered many forms of advanced weaponry and became a skilled driver of various kinds of motor vehicles.