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    Strongman

    Character » Strongman appears in 19 issues.

    Strongman is one of many Superman-clones during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Later he was retcon as a villain and a member of Battle-Axis.

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    Strongman appears in 19 issues
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    Strongman last edited by aphillips17 on 02/09/24 11:56PM View full history

    History

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    Origin

    In the Golden Age, superheroes got their powers in a lot of different ways, from being strange alien visitors, to breathing heavy water, to just being born that way. Percy van Norton, “useless son of a wealthy man,” however is unique, he got his "strength of a hundred elephants, speed of a racing car, and the skin with the toughness of a rhinoceros,” by reading a book. The "Secret Book of Yogi Exercises" to be exact. Keeping up his guise as pointless and lazy “super playboy” Percy from time to time, when the need arises, he rips off his mundane everyday tuxedo and becomes Strongman, the Perfect Human.

    Strongman fell into the public domain like many less popular comic book superheroes by the end of World War II.

    Marvel

    Invaders

    Strongman, along with Doctor Nemesis, Spider Queen, Volton, and The Human Meteor, were retcon by Roy Thomas at Marvel Comics in 1993. In this new continuity, Strongman took a serum that gave him superpowers. For a while he began as a crimefighter, but something went wrong. The serum corrupted Strongman and became a member of Battle-Axis. He was defeated and captured by The Invaders.

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