A supervillain from Millennium City.
Biography[]
David Weinstein, a childhood friend of Mark (Nighthawk) Whitaker, joined the Army after graduating high school in 1986. While serving in the Gulf War, Weinstein was on a patrol in the Kuwaiti desert when he found a strange bracelet. Fascinated by the small gemstones, Weinstein tucked it into his pocket. When he returned to his unit’s base camp that night, he won so much money in a poker game that some of his friends accused him of cheating. They planned to give him a beating that night, but improbable misfortunes struck them before they could harm him — one slipped and fell in a pit, breaking his arm; another’s pistol accidentally discharged, shooting the third in the leg. Eventually Weinstein realized the bracelet gave him preposterously good luck. He left the Army, purchased a couple of lottery tickets, and with the winnings bought himself a nice penthouse apartment in Detroit. His luck saved him from the Battle of Detroit — he was out of town when it happened, and when he returned his building had miraculously been spared from the fires. Weinstein soon tired of using his luck for mundane purposes. Wanting to see the world and lacking any particular scruples against killing, he became the mercenary/assassin Hazard, specializing in “impossible” kills: the wealthy, the difficult to find, the superpowered.