Static ShockAn ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.
CreatorsDwayne McDuffie, Michael Davis, Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle
Shock to the System
Sep 23, 2000
Virgil gains powers after being exposed to a strange gas that leaks from its cannister when it's hit by a bullet during a gang gunfight.
Aftershock
Sep 30, 2000
F-Stop, Virgil's teen-gang nemesis, gains his own superpowers and calls himself "Hotstreak." Meanwhile, Virgil learns who's responsible for the gas that gave him and F-Stop their powers.
The Breed
Oct 7, 2000
A track athlete Virgil's tutoring mutates into a metahuman and joins Ebon's criminal gang known as the "Metabreed."
Grounded
Oct 14, 2000
Virgil and Richie vs. a people-eating amoeba that's running amok in the high school late at night and threatening the school-newspaper staff.
They're Playing My Song
Nov 11, 2000
Rubberband Man goes after the rapper he says stole his music, and Static gets caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Virgil gets a job at a burger joint.
The New Kid
Nov 18, 2000
Virgil transfers to a school for advanced students, where he works on an electricity-absorbing prototype. Trouble is, the school turns out to be funded by Edwin Alva, and the prototype is used to make a robot that Alva wants for his nefarious ends.
Child's Play
Dec 2, 2000
A bad boy learns that his younger stepbrother is metahuman, and wants him to use his powers to steal things.
Sons of the Fathers
Dec 9, 2000
Richie's captured by Ebon after running away from home because of his father's racist attitude toward Virgil.
Winds of Change
Dec 16, 2000
A bang baby who can control the wind emerges, calls himself Slipsteam and begins to cause trouble in Dakota. Meanwhile, Richie and Virgil get into a fight over Richie's newest crime-fighting invention, the ZapCap.
Bent Out of Shape
Jan 27, 2001
Sharon dates a rapper who turns out to be Rubberband Man, who has escaped from prison. Static isn't pleased and that's not all Rubberband Man has to worry about: two metahuman bounty hunters are on his trail.
Junior
Feb 10, 2001
Edwin Alva vs. his son, who's tired of being ignored and dismissed by his father. So Junior, who has figured out how to control the metahuman serum, uses it to become one himself--Omnifarious--and takes on his dad.
Replay
Mar 3, 2001
A washed-up child actor with meta-human powers clones Static, and the clone goes on a crime spree.
Tantrum
May 12, 2001
A purple metahuman goes on a rampage at school, and Virgil and Richie think they know who it is: an honor student whose grades were less than perfect.
