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2 Simon Williams OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE New York City

HEIGHT 6 ft 2 in WEIGHT 380 Ibs EYES Red HAIR Cray

FIRST APPEARANCE

Avengers vol. 1 $9 (October 1964)

WONDER

Bom the wealthy inheritor of a family business, Simon Williams ran the company into near-bankruptcy and embczzled funds to incest with the eriminal Maggia. Nursing a grudge toward the competing Stark Industries and its champion. Iron Man. Williams underwent : '"wviw Mans ixxs ; jonie eiRTgy treatmcuts front Baron Zemo

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--------------s Man. he infiltrated the Ayencf.kn, but refused

to follow through ou Zcmos scheme to destroy the team and perished after aiding his Avengers teaminatcs.The homicidal robot Ultron later copied Wonder Man s brain patterns to help program the android Yision.

ESSENTIAL STORYLINES

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BACK TO LIFE

Believed dead. Wonder Man hibcrnated in an ionic coma until restored. in a zonibie-like state, by his unstable brother Erie, the Grim Ri.AiM R. rhe resurrected Wonder Man returned to the Avengers. befriending the Błasi and forging a close bond with the Vision, whom he vie\vcd as a brother due to their shared brain patterns. Wonder Man becanic a part linie actor and stuntnian, and also helped to establish the Wi si Coast Ayencers.

At this linie he realized he loved the Scari i r Wik ii.who had sińce married theVision.

After theVisions dismcnibernicnt and reassembly.Womler Man refiiscd to allow his brain patterns to be copied a second timc.driving a wedge between hini and the Scarłet Witch. Neeerthcless. as tinie went by. the two began a romance, and Wonder Man pursued a successiul acting career in I lollywood niovies.

SECOND CHANCES

After the West Coast Avengers disbanded, Wonder Manjoincd Iron Mans spinoffcrcw. Fori t Works. On the team s tirst mission.

Kri i agent* apparently killed Wonder Man. I Iowever, tlie horo livcd on as a disenibodied being of ionic cnergy, occasionally inatcrializing in a scmi-eorporeal State through the powcrs of the Scarlct Witch.The Grim Reaper attcmptcd to

exploit this spectral Wonder Man by aysembling a new Legion or ihf Unlivin<; to att.u k he Avengers.

Eventually_fWonder Man reconstitutcd hiniself. and he has established the non-profit Second

Chances Foundation, and struck up a romance with Carol l>anvers (see War.uiri>). dw

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