Johnny Cash

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America's most notorious singing cowboy/secret agent, Johnny Cash was the founder of the Men in Black, the CIA's secret alien-fighting organization.

Born in Arkansas in 1913, Cash became a songwriter in his teenage years, serenading the young ladies with his guitar. At age eighteen he entered the Army Air Force, where he received training as a covert commando. But while on leave in Nevada, Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. He was sentenced to life plus twenty in Folsom Prison, and served most of his time in a rusty cage.

In 1947, after the crash landing of aliens in Roswell, President Sheriff Harry S Truman offered Cash a pardon if the balladeer would head up a secret team of agents dedicated to fighting the newly discovered alien menace. Cash agreed, taking the nom de plume The Man in Black; his agents were thus known at the Men in Black.

Cash walked the line of a secret agent for nearly fifty years, when he retired from the secret agent biz and went back to his first love, singing country music. His American Recordings albums told of his exploits as a defender of Earth, told in metaphor and code.

In 2003, Cash came out of retirement to fight off a Thanagarian invasion of his adopted home town of Nashville. Cash stopped the winged aliens, but perished in the process. A state funeral was held in his honor, and Cash's body was cremated in a ring of fire.