User blog comment:Nerdero/How did the "Save Young Justice and Green Lantern" fan campaign end up failing?/@comment-6035153-20130409140751/@comment-1038387-20130409141845

"Axel Alex" does not exist, or at least, not as an official DC character. He's a fanfic character someone keeps adding to a lot of things on wikipedia. From Batman villains:

"Axel Alex

Untold Tales of the Batman #1 (June 1994)

Alex Farland was a mechanic who hated his job, and his cheap boss. In order to earn some quick cash for his son, Farland worked for the mob and tried to kill the mayor by cutting his brakes."

In a blind rage of copy paste frenzy, someone also added him to the DC wiki. I had to make a pretty strong case to delete him. I've deleted his name from wikipedia too, a couple of times, but he keeps popping up.

That supposed first appearance does not exist. No major comic book site has it, or the character. The name was originally added to the list by an anonymous user. I traced that anon's location, and noted an actual Alex Farland (15 years old at the time according to his MySpace, IIRC) lived in the vicinity. One plus one...