Bullseye Fact — October 28, 2026

Today's Fact

Verified against at least two independent sources. Issues cited below.

BULLSEYE LET HIMSELF GET CAPTURED — JUST TO BURN HIS OWN FATHER ALIVE!

The Featured Fact

Every assassin has an origin story. Bullseye has several, and he will happily sell you each one. In Bullseye: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 #1–5 (2004–2005), written by Daniel Way with art by Steve Dillon, the killer sits in a federal prison while agents interrogate him about stolen radioactive material — and, to pass the time, he narrates his whole life: an abusive father, a brother, a house fire, a baseball career that ended with a batter dead on the mound.

Then, in the final issue, he cheerfully takes most of it back. Some or all of the story was fabricated for his own amusement; even his name wobbles between tellings, with family in his account calling him Leonard while other records insist on Lester. The one correction he insisted on was the fire: his brother had not set it. He had — only his father had crawled out alive.

Which was the entire point of the performance. The capture itself had been engineered so Bullseye would be locked inside the one prison that also held his father. He goaded an agent into knocking out one of his teeth, used that tooth as a weapon to kill the man, fought his way to the infirmary where his father lay, and finished the childhood job at last — leaving the old man to burn as the facility’s own security systems torched the place around them.

Why It's Obscure

Interrogators spent five issues extracting a confession; the only true thing in the room was the plan, and they were standing inside it.

The audience

Agents as entertainment — questioned about stolen radioactive material, Bullseye paid his interrogators in autobiography, most of it counterfeit.

The names

Leonard, Lester, nobody — his own story cannot keep his first name straight, which may be the most honest detail he ever provided.

The tooth

Improvised as always — a knocked-out tooth became the murder weapon that opened his path through the prison.

The real target

Daddy dearest — surrender, prison and storytelling were all one long corridor leading to his father’s infirmary bed.

Gallery

Comic art of Bullseye — led by the cover of the very miniseries that told his life story and then retracted it. No AI imagery, nothing mislabeled.

Cover of Bullseye: Greatest Hits #1 showing Bullseye crouching among thrown playing-card aces — **The confession booth** — the cover of Bullseye: Greatest Hits #1 (2004), the interrogation miniseries in which he narrated his origins and then admitted he had invented them.

Bullseye close-up in his costume with the target emblem on his forehead, holding a knife — **The storyteller** — Bullseye in full costume, target front and centre: a man whose deadliest performance may be the autobiography he gives for free.

Sources

Every claim above is verified against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Bullseye: 17 Things You Need to Know — CBRIn Greatest Hits #1 the captive Bullseye says his brother set the fire that killed their father; by #5 he reveals he set it himself, his father survived, and he breaks out to reach the man in the same prison.
Bullseye — WikipediaThe 2004 Greatest Hits miniseries presented his backstory through an interrogation while undermining its reliability, revealing some or all of it was fabricated, probably by Bullseye himself.
Supervillain Origins: Bullseye — WatchMojoIn Greatest Hits #5 Bullseye drops the bombshell that he made up most of what he had said; he started the fire, his father survived, and his father had been locked in the same prison all along.