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Cyrill "Speed" Saunders is a DC Comics character who first appeared in Detective Comics #1 (1937). He was an adventurer and detective whose occupation was for a long time never specified. He seemed not to report to anyone, but was able to order people around. Eventually, it was revealed that he was a private investigator and later a member of the OSS. He is the grandfather of the current Hawkgirl, and first cousin to the original Hawkgirl, Shiera Saunders Hall.
Publication history
Cyril "Speed" Saunders first appeared in Detective Comics #1 (1937)
In 1999 James Robinson and David S. Goyer used the character in JSA Secret Files #1.
Character history
Cyril "Speed" Saunders is an adventurer and detective during the 1930s and 1940s. During this time he meets Wesley Dodds and the two become life-long friends. (JSA Secret Files #1, 1999)
In 1938 Saunders becomes involved in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), participating in counterespionage operations throughout World War II. (JSA Secret Files #1, 1999)
In the modern era, Cyril finds his orphaned granddaughter, Kendra Saunders; he takes her in and begins training her in hand-to-hand combat and other skills. He knows that she has a great destiny as the next Hawkgirl.
Cyril joined his friend Wesley Dodds on a trip into China and Tibet and the Himalayas. It is on Mt. Kailash that the two meet with the Gray Man. The two men receive the location of three babies, one of which is to receive the essence of Dr Fate and so become the newest incarnation of that hero. Saunders leaves Wesley on that Mount so as to take the information to Alan Scott and the JSA, as well as to Sanderson Hawkins. (JSA Secret Files #1, 1999)
Once in China proper, Cyril also contacts his granddaughter Kendra and gives her information on one of the babies. He tells her to go to Vancouver, British Columbia and to protect that baby. (JSA #2, 1999)
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