Continued from PART I:

Bear in mind that I have included superhumans from science fiction and the X-FILES as well as comic book literature. Bear in mind that comic books, by their very nature, are very exagerrated. The superhumans' portrayal on X-FILES...generally disbelieved, usually plainclothes...is a lot closer to the truth, most of the time.

When the superhumans do meet, the reaction is often of stark disbelief. This meeting between Superman and the members of a super-street gang called Blood Syndicate is actually closer to the truth of how most superhero meetings happen...which may be one reason why the first meetings being superbeings often devolve to mindless, but highly entertaining, fights. They can't believe it's REALLY the person they claim to be...

(This issue chronicled the meeting between several characters published by Milestone and published by DC proper, but they, as usual, put in a alternative universe explanation to throw any reporters off the track...)

9. Henry Garrick.
The son of David Jason Garrick and Carol Mayfair was Harry Garrick, Jay's father, born circa 1892. A chemist for a farming supply company, he married a woman who was half-English.

Jay's mother was a woman named Alice Gibberne. She was the daughter of a reknowned professor, Professor (Alfred?) Gibberne. Gibberne was a distant relative. Shelly Garrick Griffin, suspecting her husband's dishonesty, divorced him and married a Dr. Gibberne. Their son was Alfred Gibberne, who was thus the Invisible Man's half-brother. They shared chemical genius, if little else. This Mistophelean-looking scientist got some publicity in "The New Accelerator", a story/article by H.G. Wells, where he and Wells took a stroll--- at super-speed. In fact, they were going so fast that if they had broken out into a run, they might have burst into flames from the friction.

Gibberne was going to market his product, which he called "The New Accelerator". He used Wells' article as a way to get the word to the masses, because the serum would have revolutionized society.

His grandson, Jay Garrick, as a student in a chemical lab, got caught in the fumes of "hard water". After spending weeks in a hospital after being caught in those fumes, he recovered, and found he could move at an astounding rate of speed, becoming the first Flash. After the death of Alice Gibberne, Harry Garrick became involved with a married Jewish woman named Beatrice Bass. There is reason to believe that Madeline Beatrice Bass, her daughter born around 1929, might have really been Harry Garrick's daughter. Madeline Beatrice Bass married William Robert Drake when she was young, and had Robert "Bobby" Drake when she was twenty, in 1949.

William Drake was a first cousin to costumed adventurers Dinah Drake (the first Black Canary) and Marla Drake (Miss Fury) and also had a British cousin named John Drake, who worked as a secret agent. When he tried to back out of intelligence work, he instead became a Prisoner.

Bobby Drake sort of had the Flash's power in reverse. He could slow down molecular motion around him, causing things to freeze. As the Iceman, he joined the original X-Men.

Jay's sister, Louise Garrick, married twice. Her first marriage was to a Dr. Cyrus Frost, a brother of Emma Frost, the White Queen, and thus was Adam Blake/Captain Comet's nephew--- and their daughter was Crystal Frost, who became a scientist who tried to be romantically involved with Dr. Martin Stein. Later she suffered a scientific accident and could like Iceman, generate freezing cold at will, calling herself Killer Frost. After metabolic imbalances from her condition killed her, her half-sister, Louise Lincoln, by Louise Garrick's second marriage, tried to duplicate the condition---and became the second Killer Frost. (The fact that Crystal Frost was her half-sister explains her fascination with her condition.)

10. Richard Grey Sr.
Jean (and Madeline's) family line also descended from Major Ingall's company. Their grandfather was Richard Grey Sr., explorer. Richard married a Sarah Jong, sister of Washingtonia Jong (see Olaf Stapledon's ODD JOHN) and had three children, among them John Grey, who became a professor of literature on Annadale-on-the-Hudson. Then Sarah Jong Grey died, and Richard remarried a fellow explorer named Anne Garrick, sister to Harry Garrick. They travelled to Mongolia, leaving John and his two sisters with relatives, and Richard and Anne had a baby while travelling, which they named Richard Grey Jr.

The Greys, unfortunately, were slaughtered by Mongolian bandits, and Richard was found and raised by some condors that the Mongolian bandits had found and released in a caravan they raided, that was bringing some South American condors to a zoo in Asia. Later he was found by a monk, and returned to America as a grown man in the early forties'. He became known as the Black Condor. Like his niece, Jean Grey, he was a mutant who could levitate at least himself, the Kryptonian DNA merging with the earthborn DNA in a way that promoted telekinesis.

Actually, Jean derives her telekinetic powers, at least in part, also from her grandmother's side. His mother was a half-Chinese San Franciscan, named Sarah Jong. Though Sara was perfectly normal, her sister was Washingtonia Jong, who joined "Odd" John Wainwright's colony of mutant supernormals, capable of, among other things, feats of telepathy and some limited telekinesis.

"Odd" John Wainwright was the uncle to Jean Grey's mentor, Professor Xavier. "Odd" John's engineer brother, Tom Wainwright, had an affair with an American woman named King. Their child was Henry King, who physically resembled "Odd" John quite a lot, and whose ability to materialize thoughts from his imagination classed him also as homo superior. He became the greatest enemy of the Justice Society, including Jay Garrick, under the name Brain Wave. Henry King married twice. His first marriage broke the mores of the time and was to a black woman, who bore him a son, Isiah, who also became a supervillain called Despot. Isiah married Mary Pierce, Jefferson Pierce's (Black Lightning's) sister, and their son was Jackson King, also known as Battallion, the telepathic field leader of the UN-sponsored Stormwatch team. His brother, Malcolm, also known as Stryfe, also had superhuman powers. (Thanks to Mark Brown for his inspired suggestion.) His second marriage was to Merry Pemperton, who gave him one child, Brain Wave Jr., who joined Infinity Inc.

John Grey's older sister married a man named Jerome, and their daughter, Janie Jerome, was also a telekinetic, as readers of Theodore Sturgeon's MORE THAN HUMAN can attest. His younger sister, Judith, married a John Brigham. Their daughter, Margaret Brigham, was a rather fanatic fundamentalist Christian. She married Ralph White, a construction worker who died on the job.

Their tragic (but telekinetic) daughter, Carrie White, became the subject of the novel CARRIE by Stephen King. King changed some details, placing the action a few years in his own future and implying the entire world heard of her telekinetic vengeance. Actually, it was covered up by disbeleving authorities, and the change in dating was to throw investigators off the track.

11. Daniel Grimm.
Hal Jordan's aunt, Elsie Jordan, married a New York City native named Daniel Grimm after World War I. Some would say it was a horrible match. Daniel proved to be an alchoholic who couldn't hold a job, and they lived on New York City's lower East Side. Elsie Jordan Grimm was too proud to ask for help from any relatives though. They mainly supported themselves through the illegal activities of her older son, Daniel Grimm Jr., head of the Yancy Street Gang.

Daniel died in a gang fight. Benjamin Grimm, the younger son, remained. (Benjamin was born about 1920.) After both of his parents died in poverty, Jake Grimm, Daniel's brother, took him in. Jake had worked his way out of poverty and became a doctor. (The Grimm family was descended from a cousin of the two Grimm brothers, who collected Grimm's fairy tales...but in the immigration to America fallen on hard times.)

Ben Grimm crawled out of poverty to earn a football scholarship, where he met both Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom in college. Like his younger cousin Hal Jordan, he become a fighter pilot (during World War II, Hal flew in the Korean war) and later a test pilot.

It was he who piloted Reed Richards' rocket, and it was he who turned into the Thing, a Hulk-like monster...save that Ben Grimm didn't change back, and his intelligence stayed the same. His adventures were, of course, originally chronicled by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Daniel Grimm was a rotten husband, as well as a drunk, and cheated on his wife repeatedly. One woman he cheated on her with was Emilia Blonsky, a Yugoslavian immigrant. Her child, a daughter, was sent to her parents' home in Zagreb. She was born around 1922. She married a distant cousin, also named Blonsky, and their son returned to America, claiming an American citizenship through his mother...but was actually a communist spy. Emil Blonsky got exposed to the radiation from Bruce Banner's gamma ray machine, and became a hideous being yet with the full mind he had before---having much more similarities with the Thing than the Hulk, with whom he fought, under the name of the Abomination.

Daniel also had an affair with a Alice Langkowski. When she got pregnant, she was sent to her parents' home in Alberta, Canada. Their grandson was Dr. Walter Langkowski, who could turn himself, after repeated gamma ray treatments, into the heavily muscled, super-strong Sasquatch, a member of Alpha Flight, Canada's superteam. Like the Thing or the Abomination, he kept his normal mind when he transformed.

He also had an affair with a sister of a well-known attorney named Mason. Their grandson was Rex Mason, a globetrotting soldier of fortune who got trapped with the radiations of the Orb of Ra in Egypt. He was transformed into Metamorpho the Element Man---with no super-strength, but with a freakish appearance and the ability to change into any of the elements that constituted his body. (More and more the nanobots explanation recommends itself---because only nanobots would be able to rebuild a body atom by atom into something different in substance than it was before.) Ben Grimm and Rex Mason also resembled each other a lot before their transformation, which is understandable, since they were uncle and nephew.

12. FBI agent and chemist Tom Higgins married Jane Rogers, sister to both Anthony "Buck" Rogers and Joseph Rogers, Captain America's father. They had two sons, Joe and Al....Joe was named for his uncle, Joseph Rogers. (Captain America was injected with a serum influenced by Superman but did not directly have the blood and Kryptonian DNA the others in these bloodlines do.) Al was a few years younger than Joe and was adopted by some cousins named Pratt, after Higgins was gunned down by criminals in the late twenties'. Both Joe Higgins and Al Higgins Pratt were red-haired patriotic Americans who developed super-strength and toughness, distinguished only by their height...Joe was average height, whereas Al was only five feet tall at most. Joe's toughness and strength was activated only for a few years before it seemed to "wear off". Al Pratt started out as a costumed athelete, but contact with radioactivity later caused him to manifest super-strength later in his career as the first hero named Atom. Al also became one of the more regular members of the Justice Society.

There was a sister, Thomasina, red-haired like her brothers, born between Joe and Al, also adopted by the Pratts. She married Randolph Rhodes, grandfather to both Jean Grey and Wally West on their mother's side, after his wife, Brittany Smith, died. (Many of his relatives were doubtful about the older Randolph marrying the young Thomasina Higgins Pratt, yet such things happen.) There was a daughter, Thomasina Rhodes, who married an Iowa farmer named Fairchild (his mother was the younger sister of Dr. Henry Allen) and their son was Alexander Thomas Fairchild, also known as Slaphammer of Team 7, a secret goverment group of soldiers who were exposed to a "gen-factor" that activated their latent superpowers. (The vast majority exposed to it, having no such predisposition, died.) The members of Team 7 showed some facility for telepathic and telekinetic powers.

Alexander Thomas Fairchild had two children, both of whom were exposed in turn to the gen-factor and whose latent powers were brought to the fore. His legitimate daughter, Caitlin Fairchild, showed the super-strength and near-invulnerability that the Shield and the Atom, her great-uncles, showed. His other illigitimate daughter, Roxanne Spaulding, had amplified versions of telekinesis growing to a control of gravity. She was codenamed Freefall, and both fought in the team called Gen13.

After the death of his wife, Tom Higgins had a brief affair with his black housekeeper, in which both of them let passion override prejudice and caution--- after which they both agreed it would be better that she should go. The grandson of that union (she didn't know she was pregnant when she left, and the mores of the time made it difficult for her to go back and admit it to him), but their daughter Esther married a Leonard Lucas, and their son, Higgins' grandson, went under the name of Lucas, until he was framed on drug charges by a supposed "friend". In prison, he underwent a special treatment which released his latent powers, and he broke free, starting again as Luke Cage, Hero for Hire. He later changed his name to Power Man. Like the Shield, he had an extremely tough body and limited super-strength.

13. Major Ingalls.

Major Ingalls, the leader of the company, married Charlene Xavier, a sister of Brian Xavier's. Yet the marriage was stormy, and Charlene finally divorced him, taking their two children with her. She married a wealthy man named Joyce. He adopted both children, both James and Madeline.

Madeline was older, and Madeline Xavier Joyce was in the middle of a lightning storm in her millionaire uncle's place when she discovered she had developed great powers. She could levitate herself. She was super-strong. She had x-ray vision. She took the name of Miss America---not inspired by the pageant---and was a member of the All-Winners' squad. Soon her powers degenerated, until she only had the levitational powers and "increased vitality". Later she married Robert Frank, the Whizzer, and worked with radioactive materials. One child survived and became a dangerous nuclear menace, while two others died in birth...as did Madeline, with the final child.

James became obsessed with trying to duplicate some of his sister's powers, especially the x-ray vision, which as a medical doctor and surgeon he knew could be extremely useful. He decided not to use his adopted father's name, because "James Joyce", of course, was the famous author of ULYSSES. Nor did he want to use "Ingalls" and insult his adoptive father. So instead he went by his mother's name, and called himself James Xavier. (He was first cousin to Professor Charles Xavier.)

He developed a serum which he felt would grant a man the ability to see more and more of the electromagnetic spectrum---x-rays, infra-red-rays, ultra-violet...and took it himself. It worked to stimulate the sensory powers which are the hallmark especailly of Ingalls' descendents. His tragic story was related by director Roger Corman in X, THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES.

Before the events depicted in the movie, James Xavier had married a woman named Cooper. She couldn't take his long hours in the laboratory and left him, taking the two children with her. She brought them up under her maiden name. Randall Cooper especially, needed special treatment and attention, because his mentality seemed to be subnormal. His brother Dwight had poor eyesight, but dominated his brother Randall...

Who just happened to have...x-ray vision.

They faced FBI agents Doggett and Sculley, and their story was aired in the X-FILES episode, "Surekill" aired on 1-7-2001.

After his wife left him, Ingalls had an affair with a woman named Tracy. Her daughter, Grace Tracy, married Jack Murdock, a prizefighter past his prime. Their son, Matt Murdock, was blinded by an accident with radioactive materials in his teens. He thought the radioactivity stimulated his remaining senses, his hearing, his touch, his sense of smell a thousandfold...but that was really his abilities in the Kryptonian DNA coming to the fore. If anything, it's even more tragic that he was blinded, for if he hadn't been, yet his powers had been stimulated another way, he would have super-sight in addition to his other super-senses. Murdock, of course, fought crime under the crimson costume of the second Daredevil.

14. Pietro Davido Lensheer.

Pietro was a first-generation American, of gypsy blood, whose parents had moved to America to escape some of the many restrictions and persecutions that the European countries, especially Germany, put on the gypsy. He came to Europe to fight the "Hun" who had often persecuted his people.

After the war he met a woman named Erica Magnus, a gypsy woman of Poland, near Danzig. For her sake he stayed in Europe after the war and raised a family. He had many children by Erica, four boys and five girls.

When things started turning bad in Europe, he sent his oldest boy, Magnus Lensheer, with the second oldest boy, Davido, and their oldest sister Wanda to the United States, to stay with their grandchildren. While in the States, Magnus and Davido discovered they had immense magnetic powers. Magnus and Davido offered their services to the U.S. government, and their cladestine activities formed the basis for the comic book stories about Magno, the Magnetic Man, and his boy "partner" with similar powers, Davey, from Ace comics. The Magno alias served Magnus well---he had no secret identity, but it allowed him to function without any lingering prejudice against gypsies.

However, as the Holocaust progressed, and Gypsies and homosexuals joined Jews in becoming targets for "ethnic cleansing", Magno implored the U.S. government to believe stories about the concentration camps. Not getting an answer to his liking, he and Davey/Davido tried to raid Germany on their own and free their family, but they were killed by artillery fire before they could reach their family...who were being held at Auchswitz.

Young Eric Magnus Lensheer, born in 1928 (Magno had been born in 1920 and Davey/Davido had been born in 1926) saw his parents and his younger brother and three of his sisters executed. He survived and married another concentration camp survivor, Magda. In 1946, his daughter Anya died in an arsonist's fire, and in his rage at people not helping, his magnetic powers, so like Magno's, first manifested themselves. Magda, not understanding, ran off, pregnant with twins---Wanda and Pietro, the future Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

Eric Magnus Lensheer became the mutant Magneto, Master of Magnetism, and organizer of the first Brotherhood of Mutants. Unlike Xavier, he was determined to not be led to the slaughter by the majority, as his family had been in the concentration camps. He has recently denied his name was Eric Magnus Lensheer, that it was an alias, but I think that was a lie to try to avoid any repurcussions of any remaining relatives by the humans who hate him. Professor Xavier, a telepath, repeatedly called him "Eric", and it's hard to fool a telepath.

Pietro Lensheer had visited his parents in America around 1931, bringing Magnus and his two next oldest children with him. While here, one night he got drunk in a bar, and woke up in bed with a woman he had met at the bar. She later married a man named Emerson, who adopted her illigitimate child, Neal. We know Emerson was abusive towards young Neal Emerson, which later resulted in a split personality. He grew up to be a medical authority convinced of the healing properties of magnets, and later developed a split personality, his other being Dr. Polaris, master of magnetism also, at first using devices, later storing the magnetism in his own body.

It appears he himself had married a woman under the pseudonym of Kane. His first daughter was Frances Kane, a seemingly normal American girl who had a brief affair with Wally West, and became a split personality with magnetic powers...just like her father.

Dr. Polaris' wife remarried a man named Arthur Challis. He was step-father to Kay Kane Challis, Frances Kane's sister, but later called herself "Crazy Jane", having dozens of multiple personalities---each one with a different power. Crazy Jane was a member of the Doom Patrol. (Thanks to AGLoomis for his correction of Crazy Jane's lineage.)

Davey's sister, mentioned in the Magno stories, later married and had two children. One was a small girl, whose only mark of being different was her green hair--- named Lorna. They died when she was very young, and relatives of her husband named Charles and Alyssa Dane adopted her, calling her Lorna Dane. She gained magnetic powers, though not as great as Magneto's or Magno's, and called herself Polaris.

Her brother, also adopted by the Danes, was named Jackson Dane. He was known as Arclight when he joined Team 7, latent powers being simulated by exposure to the goverment "gen-factor". Later his memory was suppressed on a mission, and his memory--and his powers---only gradually returned. He later merged with a symbiote and led the group called Wetworks. (His brother Thomas, was his adopted brother, the actual son of Charles and Alyssa Dane.)

15. "Monk" Mayfair.

The Doc Savage companion was a first cousin of Harry Garrick on the Mayfair side, and visited his cousin one time, and was badly hurt in an action, and received some of Kent's blood. Edna Andrews was the child of a woman named Andrews and "Monk" Mayfair, during an affair in the early 20's. She married a Norton McCoy and their son was a super-agile mutant, Henry McCoy, known as the "Beast". Initially he resembled his grandfather very much, both in physique, adventurous attitude, and intellect, until his own researches into human mutation resulted in a further mutation---rendering himself a blue-furred, even more inhuman Beast.

Hank McCoy, while in high school, met a pretty Australian exchange student, who talked him out of his studious shell. Then she was sent back to Australia, not knowing she was pregnant. Her son, Hugh Dawkins, became an Australian hero who could turn into a furry monstrous being, like the later Beast, called the Tasmanian Devil. He worked with the Global Guardians and the Justice League.

He also seems to have had an affair with a Frenchwoman named Paulette Duval, which resulted in a son, Andre Duval. Andre married twice. He married an African woman who died in childbirth. Their daughter married a Kenyan man, and their granddaughter was Flint, of Stormwatch, who could turn into a stonelike being of immense strength and hardness. Unfortunately, her father and brothers were killed in border skirmishes with Tanzania in the mid 70's, and her mother was murdered two years later, so she was brought up as a traumatized ward of the state, very sullen and withdrawn.

Andre married again, to a Frenchwoman. They had two children, a son and a daugther, and both became chemists, like Monk. Paul Duval suffered an accident that turned anything he touched, including himself, into an ultra-hard stone being, very much like Flint. He became a criminal called the Grey Gargoyle and fought the Avenger called Thor.

His sister Michelle Duval worked in the reserch and developement section of a multinational perfume corporation, working with an Andre D'Aramis on pheromones. They had an affair, and she became pregnant with twin girls, but a cancer devoured her. Andre adopted his daughters, Constance and Vivian Duval D'Aramis, who had Beast-like agility and sensory powers, plus the ability to use pheromones to attract males. They became a super-heroine, alternating who should wear the costume, called the Crimson Fox, who joined the Justice League's International division.

16. Leonard McKenzie spread the superhuman genes in a special way. McKenzie had joined the navy, but he had reason to be grateful to Clark. He was the unnamed seaman whose life "Hugo" saved in GLADIATOR from the shark on the Katrina. He had kept up a correspondence with the man who saved his life, and when on shore leave, had decided to visit Clark and see if the front was as bad as everyone said. Unfortunately, he showed up during a shelling and didn't reach cover in time. Badly wounded, Clark donated a pint of blood to McKenzie.

McKenzie, a few years later, in 1920, would be in the Antartic where he married a blue-skinned mysterious female who came from the water, who was really princess Fen of an undersea race. A few weeks after their marriage, her father sent a military expedition from their race to get her back. In the fighting McKenzie was badly injured, and Clark wasn't around to give him a transfusion. He was believed dead by Fen, and embittered, she leaped into the sea to rejoin her people.

The sea-breathers were a genetically-altered branch of humanity, and could crossbreed with normal humans. The Princess had a child, Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. His breathing both air and water was a product of his hybrid nature, but he had super-strength, which neither race had. That was a product of the Kryptonian DNA in McKenzie's blood bonding with his genetic structure. The wings on his feet were a genetic "wild card" caused by the mismatch in some places between the genes...but they were really useless. Sub-Mariner in actuality leapt, and only used the finlike "wings" to determine direction, and to sometimes change his leaps in mid-air.

McKenzie took a year or so to recover, and was heartbroken over the loss of Fen. He knew he would never find her again in the trackless seas around Antartica, and he knew if he did, his fellow humans would try to exploit her race....

To forget, McKenzie travelled the world in ships...and like many sailors, before and after, he had affairs with women on land to forget. Evidently McKenzie was not big on birth control (condoms, in that day). Many of the foreign superhumans were actually McKenzie's children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren. For instance, he got a German girl pregnant. She quickly married a man named Krieger who had been courting her, and the child of the German girl and Leonard McKenzie was Captain Nazi, the super-strong opponent of Bulletman, Captain Marvel, and Captain Marvel Jr. (However, as someone with mostly human DNA, his powers did not really show themselves until he was older, and Herr Kreiger credited it to a "wonder food" he had developed. Nor was he fully a match for Captain Marvel, being only partly "super" due to the mixture of earthhuman and Kryptonian DNA.)

It appears that Jakita Wagner, of the "Planetary" comic, she of the remarkable superhuman strength and invulnerability, had Captain Nazi for a grandfather. As Jess Nevins establishes in his "Secret Wars" article, Sarah Wagner bore out of wedlock a son, John Wagner. (The father was a cousin to the famous composer, Wagner. They were brought together by the coincidence of names, although Sarah was not by blood a Wagner, being adopted.) John in turn had two sons by a German woman. The older son was Eric Wagner, who married the mutant Mystique in one of her disguises and so had as a child Kurt Wagner, also known as Nightcrawler, of the X-Men. Joseph Wagner, his younger brother, also married a German woman, Hilda Krieger, who appears to have been the daughter of Captain Nazi. Jakita Wagner inherited her grandfather's strength and toughness. (Elijah Snow, her companion, seems to have been one of those few superhumans who were born without the Kryptonian transfusion, having been born in 1900.)

McKenzie had an affair with an highborn Irishwoman, rebelling from her father's stringent rules. She married a Cassidy of Cassidy Keep, but there is reason to believe her two twin sons were MacKenzie's. Certainly the grandchildren, Sean Cassidy/Banshee and Black Tom Cassidy, were mutations with extraordinary powers, as was Sean's daughter, Siryn. (Dan Cassidy, a Hollywood stuntman, was a first cousin of Sean's, but had no normal superpowers, just the mystical ones he gained as the hero known as Blue Devil.) The Cassidys were the only children of MacKenzie's whose descendents that gained powers that weren't advanced strength....unless all their strength went to their vocal chords. While Sean Cassidy was an Interpol agent, he had an affair with an Italian opera singer called Fermi. Their child was Alessandri Fermi, also known as Diva, with similar powers to Banshee's, who later joined Stormwatch.

Black Tom Cassidy, who could focus energy blasts, had a sister named Diedre Cassidy. She married a Belfast policeman named Keane, and their son was Nigel Keane, whose mutant powers manifested themselves after a gunfight in which he was mortally wounded. He became a being who seemed composed of blue lightnings called Hellstrike, and joined Stormwatch. (He later died when Skywatch station was destroyed, fighting an alien infestation.)

McKenzie also had several affairs in the States, also.

McKenzie had an affair with an full-blooded Apache woman named Joan Proudstar, who had a son. Her grandsons included John Proudstar, who became the super-strong and swift Thunderbird, a X-Men who died early in his career, and his brother, who took the code name Warpath.

McKenzie had an affair with a woman named Thomasina Strange, sister of Hugo Strange (Batman's enemy) and Stephenie Strange, Doctor Stephen Strange's mother. Their son was the Doc Strange of the forties, Dr. Thomas Strange, who first fought crime without powers but later developed a serum---which supposedly had "liquid sun", doubtless something the comic book writers used to substitute for the real ingredients---which gave him super-strength not quite in Superman's range. (Before he started his super-heroic carrer, he had briefly married with two children, Adam and Leonard. They divorced rather than have his enemies search her and his children out. Adam became an archeologist and later, a hero around the Alpha Centauri planet of Rann, though he never showed any signs of powers, his teleportation being from external causes. Doc Tom Strange's wife remarried a man named Samson, who adopted young Leonard. Leonard grew up to become Doc Samson, the Hulk ally...)

McKenzie also had an affair with a navy nurse named Roberta Benton. Their son, Bob Benton, became a druggist. Experimenting with "formic ethers" late one night, he was overcome by the fumes, much in the same way Jay Garrick was. When he recovered, he found he was extremely strong and somewhat invulnerable...able to punch holes in concrete, stop a falling elevator, and throw an automobile. He was also bulletproof, yet his vulnerability was somewhat variable---for some reason, though bulletproof, he could often be knocked out by a blow from behind. During the forties he fought crime as the Black Terror.

Their daughter, the Black Terror's sister, Erica Benton, married an industrialist named Sanford Williams. Their sons, Simon Williams and Eric Williams, became Wonder Man of the Avengers and one of the Avengers' foes, the Grim Reaper, respectively. Simon had his powers triggered by an ionic ray treatment by Baron Zemo, Captain America's foe. (Again, if Zemo could do this to any man, why didn't he do it to himself? To all the men who worked under him? No, there has to be something special about Simon Williams himself.) Simon had immense super-strength and invulnerability, almost matching that of the Hulk.

McKenzie finally settled down from the seafaring life and married again, not knowing that Fen was alive, resulting this time in (surprise!) a legitimate son, Leon McKenzie, Namor's half-brother.

He died escaping being a hostage for Namor, refusing to be a pawn till the end. (Not of exhaustion as one might suppose...)

Continued in PART III:

PARTIAL LIST OF SOURCES:

Of course, TARZAN ALIVE and DOC SAVAGE: HIS APOCALYPTIC LIFE by Philip Jose Farmer.

GLADIATOR, Philip Wylie.

"Super-Powers in the Wold Newton Universe Explained: Part II: Stretching Things" by Matthew Baugh.

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