BARON WINTERS	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan

PERSONAL DATA

Status: Active
Known Relatives: Katrina (ex-wife); Gowan (son); Albertus Magnus/Albertus De Groot (son)
Base of Operation: Wintersgate, Georgetown, Washington DC
Group Affiliation(s): Night Force
Gender: Male
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 205 lbs.
Eyes: Steel-gray
Hair: Gray
First Appearance: New Teen Titans #21 (July 1982): "The Night Force"
Creators: Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan

HISTORY

The soulless Baron Winters is charged with maintaining a balance between good and evil (represented by the divine 'Other Side' and the malevolent 'Snake'), preventing them 'from stepping over each other's boundaries'. More often than not in the past three hundred-plus years, Winters has found himself opposing evil and manipulates men and women from the present and past into joining as a Night Force to combat it. Deliberately affecting a blunt, cold-blooded demeanour, the Baron has sent some agents to their deaths and aroused a deep resentment in others who've been maimed as a consequence of their missions. The Baron operates from Wintersgate, a mansion in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. whose 'nexus' is the occult 'Laboratium Arcanum'. The structure is also honeycombed with doorways that lead to the past. Winters is capable of passing through many of those portals but is (for reasons unknown) forbidden from exiting the mansion into the present. The Baron's closest companion is the centuries-old Merlin, a leopard who possesses a degree of sentience unsuspected by most who encounter the big cat. Of late, Winters has been accused of favouring 'The Other Side' but he and Merlin have avoided being replaced by their female successors who are waiting in the wings.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Baron Winters in chronological order click here (1982-2011) and here (2011-present)

PROFILE REFERENCES

Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #2 (April 1985)