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Anjelika Dugensa of Earth, a.k.a. Quicksand.  Anjel was a small time extortionist working for a small crime family. When that family merged with another, they sent Anjel and Hald, her partner, to a black-market geneticist to make changes in them which would allow them to kill without carrying weapons.  They were both changed dramatically.  Hald became Holdur, a being able to crush others with his grip; Anjel became Quicksand, gaining the ability to transform anything solid to a liquid form, and back again.  Their career soared until they were assigned to assassinate Pulsar Stargrave.  Unable to kill him, they instead began working for him. However, When Quicksand realized Pulsar wasn't precisely what' he'd claimed to be, she took advantage of his battle with the Legionnaires on Colu to escape with holdur.  Currently, both work undercover, hiding from both Pulsar and the Legion.  First appearance was Superboy # 223. Later, Pulsar Stargrave was revealed to be the original Brainiac.  In his quest for galactic conquest, he manipulated Brainiac 5 in a complicated scheme to frame Ultra Boy for murder and to cause Brainiac 5 to go insane as a result.  However, following the time twisting events of Legion of The Super-Heroes V4 #5, in which the villain Glorith replaced the Time Trapper as the Legion's main time travel villain, his role in the framing of Ultra Boy and Brainiac 5 was replaced by Glorith.  His last pre-Crisis appearance was in the DC Special one shot edition of Legion of Substitute Heroes in 1985. The special gave yet another origin to Stargrave, positioning him as an unnamed cosmic horror type creature who had impersonated a member of the Colu species.  Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Pulsar Stargrave was reinvented as Mr Starr.  After Vril Dox II liberated Colu from the Computer Tyrants, the Tyrants uploaded their consciousness to an orbital satellite, and created an android called Mr Starr, who looked identical to the pre-Crisis Stargrave.  Quicksand did not renounce her mentor, Stargrave, until an unexpected shift in the time space continuum altered her history, making her think differently.  

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For more information on Quicksand        DC DATABASE

                                                                           THE BRONZE ERA - the issues

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