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Global Peace Agency
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceOMAC #1 (October 1974)
Created byJack Kirby
In-story information
Agent(s)Renee Montoya
Mister Bones
Buddy Blank

The Global Peace Agency (GPA) is a fictional law enforcement organization in the DC Comics Universe. The organization first appeared in the series OMAC by Jack Kirby.[1] GPA agents are nameless and faceless, using a "cosmetic spray to hide [their] features" because they supposedly "represent all nations".[2]

The Global Peace Agency was brought into the DC Universe proper in Final Crisis #7 (March 2009).

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Law enforcement agency

Law enforcement agency

A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for the enforcement of the laws.

DC Comics

DC Comics

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DC Universe

DC Universe

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OMAC (Buddy Blank)

OMAC (Buddy Blank)

OMAC is a superhero appearing in media published by DC Comics. He was created by Jack Kirby towards the end of his contract with the publisher following the cancellation of his New Gods series; it was reportedly developed strictly due to Kirby needing to fill his contractual quota of 15 pages a week. As envisioned by Kirby, OMAC is essentially Captain America set in the future, an idea he had toyed with some years earlier while at Marvel Comics but had never realized.

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics.

Final Crisis

Final Crisis

"Final Crisis" is a crossover storyline that appeared in comic books published by DC Comics in 2008, primarily the seven-issue miniseries of the same name written by Grant Morrison. Originally DC announced the project as being illustrated solely by J. G. Jones; artists Carlos Pacheco, Marco Rudy and Doug Mahnke later provided art for the series.

History

The origins of the Global Peace Agency trace back to the alien psych-historian race known as the Visionaries, dedicated to preserving civilizations "preferably by indirect scientific means". One of the Visionaries, Professor Z, discovered that Earth was on the brink of self-destruction by its own human civilization, which would bring forth the calamity known as the Great Disaster, and he urged the Visionaries' Council of Science to intervene on Earth's behalf. The Council supported Z's research and formed the Global Peace Agency. Disguised as humans, the members of the Global Peace Agency operated on Earth and became a benevolent, though powerful, law enforcement cartel.

The Global Peace Agency helped Earth's scientific community, particularly Doctor Myron Forest, to develop the Brother Eye satellite system, and they also initiated the OMAC Project which transformed meek stockroom clerk Buddy Blank into a "One-Man Army Corps".

After the events of the Final Crisis, (specifically, Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape), they started gathering particularly dangerous technology, such as the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill, Professor Alpheus Hyatt's Time Pool, and the Miracle Machine. All of these were deposited in Electric City, an alien plane of reality that only intersects tangentially and in special occasions with the core DC Universe. They viewed this as removing the seeds of future Crises, and in this endeavor they recruited Nemesis (Tom Tresser) and Cameron Chase.

Known agents

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Renee Montoya

Renee Montoya

Renee Maria Montoya is a character appearing in media published by DC Entertainment. The character was created by Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and Mitch Brian for Batman: The Animated Series and was preemptively introduced into mainstream comics before the airing of her animated debut in 1992 in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU) series Batman: The Animated Series / The New Batman Adventures, voiced by Ingrid Oliu, and later Liane Schirmer. Originally conceived of as a heterosexual widow, she was later redeveloped as a lesbian and the primary love interest of Kate Kane / Batwoman.

Mister Bones

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OMAC (Buddy Blank)

OMAC (Buddy Blank)

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Nemesis (DC Comics)

Nemesis (DC Comics)

Nemesis is the name of two fictional characters in the DC Comics universe. Thomas Andrew Tresser first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #166 and was created by Cary Burkett and Dan Spiegle. Soseh Mykros first appeared in JSA Annual #1 and was created by David S. Goyer and Uriel Caton.

In other media

Television

  • The GPA appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "When OMAC Attacks" with its leaders voiced by Dee Bradley Baker and Keone Young. Its leaders hire Batman to stop a Russian scientist with the help of their janitorial agent Buddy Blank who can be transformed into OMAC.
  • While GPA is not present in Arrow, its character Myron Forest appears, in the episode "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak", portrayed by Matthew McLellan. He is a former MIT student and hacktivist who, along with his roommate Cooper Seldon and Seldon's girlfriend Felicity Smoak, created a computer super virus and wanted to use it what they perceived initially as a noble cause, but gave up after Seldon was arrested by FBI. Years later, he works as a head of IT company and is initially seen and interrogated by Arrow as a suspect behind cyber attack in Star City, but is later revealed to be his former roommate.

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Felicity Smoak

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Source: "Global Peace Agency", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2021, August 28th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Agency.

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References
  1. ^ The Global Peace Agency, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series.
  2. ^ Kirby, Jack. OMAC #2 (DC Comics, Dec. 1974).
  3. ^ Final Crisis #7
  4. ^ Justice Society of America #27
  5. ^ a b c Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #6

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