I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

The recently-created superheroine known as Manhunter (the third or fourth DC super-character to use that codename) is actually a lawyer named Kate Spencer who became a vaguely Punisher-esque supervigilante in the first place in order to track down and put out of commission supervillains whom she was unable to get convicted in her original role as an L.A. assistant district attorney. (Ironically, Manhunter wound up being responsible for the death of, as I recall, exactly one got-off-on-a-technicality homicidal villain. This is arguably a smaller, or at least lower-profile, body count than that of many ostensibly less "take no prisoners" heroes--including Wonder Woman, whom Kate wound up defending in court for killing a mind-controlling villain in semi-self-defense on live television--in today's insistently grim-and-gritty comics.)

Kate cobbled together a battle outfit and weapons by swiping components of supervillain tech from the police evidence room and blackmailing a rather likable ex-villain's henchman/smalltime mad scientist for hire into helping her adapt and maintain them. By the time Kate quit the D.A.'s office and moved on to private practice (ostensibly--a number of her subsequent cases have involved a certain amount of undercover work for a federal government agency called the DEO, or Department of Extrahuman [I think] Operations), the disappearance of all these jailed villains' helmets, battle staffs, etc., had apparently still gone unnoticed by police archivists.

Kate/Manhunter's own title ran for something like twenty-eight issues, interrupted by a couple of hiatuses caused by DC management's attempts to cancel the not-particulary-spectacularly-selling book. (There are at least three trade paperbacks theoretically still available reprinting the first sixteen or eighteen issues.) In fact, the Manhunter comic is still officially merely on hiatus now, although since no new issues have appeared for eight or nine months, it's beginning to seem as if either DC honcho Dan DiDio or, possibly, writer Mark Andreyko may have thought better of DiDio's promise to continue the book after all. Possibly they're hoping that the fans who deluged DC with protests after previous cancellation announcements will forget all about it as long as the company doesn't officially announce that Manhunter isn't coming back.