Drake Burroughs, no longer human took on the name Wildfire and joined the legion. Professor Vultan developed a special suit to contain him.

Wildfire was originally Drake Burroughs, a failing astro-engineer student at Metropolis University. While helping with a propulsion system the university was developing, Burroughs was disintegrated by a blast of anti-matter energy and transformed into a being of pure anti-energy. Professor Vultan, of whom Burroughs had been a student, developed a special suit to contain him. He again possessed a semblance of humanoid form, but he had no true human form and lacked most human sensory functions, such as taste or touch.

Drake's new form has vast super-powers, the most potent of which is the power to fire energy blasts. He was originally reluctant to use the ability due to an accident in which he nearly killed his former girlfriend. Calling himself ERG-1 (Energy Release Generator 1), Drake decides to petition for membership in the Legion, where he "bulled" that he was an astrophysicist so as to seem more impressive.