[1] He first appears in Kobalt #1 (June 1993), and was created by John Rozum and Arvell Jones.

One of these people is Councilman Tyler Page, the father of a teenaged son named Richard who is an inept superhero groupie.

Cloud to form a rival criminal empire and finds himself battling three supervillains, Volt, who wears an exoskeleton that delivers electric shocks, Slick, whose body is living oil and Red Light, who is only visible in infra-red.

Slick and Red Light lead a group of Volt's men to knock over an armored car and steal the small box it was carrying.

Instead, Rick sneaked into the trunk of one of the thug's cars so he could find the criminal behind the heist and alert Kobalt.

Kobalt discovers that the box he stole has everything needed to bring down Edwin Alva's criminal empire, but is interrupted from figuring out why someone else wanted it by a phone call.

Kobalt broke into the office of Cape and Cowl magazine, got information on Volt, Slick and Red Light and went to rescue his partner.

Thanks to video of him and Page fighting Slick, Red Light and Volt's men at the armored car, his mystique was gone.

Cloud hired a Mr. Glass to kill one of his hirelings who stole and resold a crate of guns he was supposed to transport to their buyers.

Clover joined Kobalt in the fight, but was shot in the leg and forced to the sidelines after a battle with one more of St.

Kobalt's psychotic gun-toting former partner Harvest enters the fray searching for the witness to a mass murder orchestrated by St.

St Cloud had Mr. Glass in a safe house with a ton of folks looking for him, including Kobalt, Harvest and Rabid.

Dozer, Lead Balloon, Wisp, Bloody Mary, Cutlery, Slipper, Gimlet, Splotch and Angel's Kiss are there ostensibly to keep the park safe, bit their true function is to kill Kobalt when he inevitably arrives seeking to take down St.

Kobalt takes down the warehouse where he trained Page, destroyed or moved a lot of his equipment and makes plans to disappear before St.

Councilman Tyler Page was one of the many local celebrities invited to the opening of Utopia Park.

Rick got Michelle safely out of the park and with security before he went back in and put on his costume to help out as Page.

He and Clover went into the park prepared to rescue Page and to enact Kobalt's plan: fake his own death and disappear long enough to train against superhumans before re-emerging.

Clover knocked Crimson out with a sneak attack and left with Kobalt to find Page.

Kobalt then went to the "rescue" and, with Clover clear, detonated the bomb and pretended he died in the explosion.

Page instead chose to retire - his near death at Crimson's hands soured him on the super hero concept.