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Purple Man ■HHHHHHHF powers    Puppet

PNIlip Mastors OCCUPATION Professional criminal BASE

Sunshine City, Florida

HEIGHT 5 ft 6 in WEIGHT 150 Ibs

FIRST APPEARANCE:

Fantastic Four vol. 1 U8 (November 1962)

A brtliant botogst and techrican: AWe to contrd the actions and rboughts of others by making inodois of them out of specai radioacfNe cłay. He then tums lho modełs »mo marionettes. attachlng stnngs to ther Imbs.

The Fantastic Four look on hcfctessty as lho F\*>pei tinkers włh a robol dutchog rnodoł of an atonie bomb. What can the vtfan bo up to?

FACTFILE

REAL NAME

Zebediah Kilkjrave OCCUPATION

Former spy. Professional criminal.

cooqueror

BASE

Mobile

HEIGHT 5 ft 11 In WEIGHT 165 fcs EYES Purple HAIR Purple

FIRST APPEAFłANCE:

DaredevH voI. 1 »4 (October 1964)

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ofTransia, Phillip Mastors movcd talcntcd biologist, hc bccamc the partner oł jncob Reiss. Rescntful of Reiss s success, his partner during Mastors s botchcd robbery of an explosion that blinded Roisss daughter, lator married Roisss widów and bccanio Alidas stcpfathor (sec Mastf.us, Alida). Learning ho could control others with his day sculptnros. Mastors becamc the Puppot Master, one of the earliest enemies of the Fantastic Four. He also teamed up with the villains Eggiiead. MadTihnkfr, and Doctor Doom.To his horror, his daughter Alicia fcll in love with the Thing, though in dnie the Puppet Master was recondled to their relationship.The US governmcnt reeruited the Puppet Master to run their Sunshine City projcct, wherc mind-controllcd criminals safely served out their prison sentenccs. ovv

Purple Man

PYM, HaNK see opposite page

Pyro

FIRST APPEARANCE Uncanny X-Men VW. 1 #141 (January 1981)

REAL NAME St. John Allerdyce

OCCUPATION Professional criminal BASE Mobile

HEIGHT 5 ft 10 in WEIGHT 1S0 Ibs EYES Bluc HAIR Blond

SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Could control and mampulate

flames wrthin Ns immediate vłcinity. though he could not produce

flames tumself. His insulated costumo had Durft-in flamelhrowers.

KitigrćMłfe body secretes psycboact(ve Chemicals that deaden the w* of peopło n hs yicrity, rendering them susceptłWe to his oommancte. indMduals wth unusuały strong w* pOMser can resist łilm.

Boru inYugoslavia, Zebediah Kiilgravc was a spy who attempted to stcal an experimcntal nerw gas. Firing his gun at Killgravc. a guard hit a canistcr ofrhe gas, stored in liquid form.The Chemical spillcd ovcr Killgraw, pcrmancntly dying his hair and skin purplc. It also gavc him the power to compcl others to obcy his Coinmands.

Killgraw turncd to crimc and becamc known as the Purple Man. He was repeatedly defeated by Darfi>evh . one of the few people able to resist lus power—he forced the crimefighter Jewel to become his servant for months.

Inasmuch as the Purple Man could have anything he wanted just by asking for it. he decided to give up crime. Howewr. the Kingpin and Dooior Doom e\ploited the Purple Mans abilitics for their own cnds.Thc Purplc Man attempted to compel the mutant Nate Grcy. alias X-Man. to help him conquer the world. but Grcy defeated him.

The Purple Man has a daughter. Kara Killgraw. who has purplc skin and siniilar powers. She became the advcnturer known as the Purple Girl and Pf.usuasion. ps

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