Alias

Libra
Nick Name
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Civilian ID
Justin Ballantine
Occupation
Criminal
Legal Status
Citizen of the United States with a criminal record.
Nation or Planet of Origin
United States
Group Affiliation
Injustice Gang of the World
Base of Operations
Mobile
Height
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Weight
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Eye Color
Blue
Hair Color
Brown
Skin Tone
Caucasian
Known Powers
Normal human empowered by several scientific and mystical devices - granting possible demigod status.
Accessories
Transmortifier: Device enabling a being to leach powers from others and transferring them to the controller.
Common Enemies
Justice League
Regularly Appearing

Final Crisis

Justice League of America Vol. 1

First Appearance
Justice League of America Vol. 1 #111 (June, 1974)
Creator
Len Wein & Dick Dillin
Origin
Justin Ballantine lost his mother at an early age due to an alcoholic pharmacist mis-measuring her prescription.  After his mother's death Ballantine's alcoholic father abused him regularly and the young Ballantine sought refuge in viewing the stars with a telescope on his home's roof.  When Ballantine's father threatened to beat him with the telescope and attempted to climb upon the roof, he fell to his death and Ballantine concluded that the universe always finds balance.

Attending college, Ballantine's physics professor was Ted Knight (Star Man I), a man's whose invention he would later use to create the Transmortifier, a device allowing him to steal half the powers of superhumans as the balance-obsessed criminal know as Libra.