CHARLES BENTON

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: Charles Benton 

OCCUPATION: Security guard (formerly), adventurer, bodyguard 

IDENTITY: Public 

CLASS: Human mutate 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA 

OTHER ALIASES: Butch, Indestructible Man 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Los Angeles, California (USA) 

MARITAL STATUS: Married 

KNOWN RELATIVES: Barbara Boone (wife) 

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Protectors Inc. 

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Los Angeles, California (USA) 

FIRST APPEARANCE: Indestructible Man (1956 film) 

HEIGHT: 6' 6" 

WEIGHT: 425 lbs 

EYES: Brown 

HAIR: Black 

HISTORY 

Los Angeles California. Charles "Butch" Benton was a security guard who was falsely charged with theft of an armored car, and murder. He was judged, sentenced to the gas chamber and executed. His corpse was used in experimentation, with surprising results. His body regenerated, moreover, he was enhanced in the process, gaining inhuman strength and resistance to damage. Butch escaped the facility determined to get revenge on those who had framed him, starting with his attorney, Paul Lowe, who, in collusion with the real culprits, had betrayed him for money. Butch tried to contact his girlfriend, stripper Eve Martin, but she was involved with Detective Dick Chasen, the police officer who brought Butch to justice, and who was actually the leader of the plot. Benton fell into a trap, but using his new abilities he  defeated the conspirators. In the end, Butch managed to get attorney Lowe to confess to the plot to the police, thus clearing his name. Later he established himself as a celebrity bodyguard. 

POWERS & WEAPONS 

After being revived, Butch displayed incredible strength and was immune to bullets and other projectile weapons. At one point, he was shot in the chest with a bazooka. The bazooka damaged him, but he survived the shot. 

BABE BOONE

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: Barbara Boone 

OCCUPATION: Former sportswoman, bounty hunter 

IDENTITY: Public 

CLASS: Mutant 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA 

OTHER ALIASES: The Amazon from the Ozarks 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Possum Holler, the Ozarks (USA) 

MARITAL STATUS: Married 

KNOWN RELATIVES: Mammy and Pappy Boone (parents), Charles Benson (husband) 

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Protectors Inc. 

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Los Angeles, California (USA) 

FIRST APPEARANCE: Babe #01 (Jul. 1948) 

HEIGHT: 5' 7" 

WEIGHT: 124 lbs 

EYES: Brown 

HAIR: Blonde 

HISTORY 

Possum Holler was a small community in the Ozarks that counted among its citizens mermen, cavemen with three legs, people with three lungs, people hatched from eggs, centaurs, and many other genetic anomalies. It is believed that all these mutations were the product of something that had fallen from the sky a long, long time ago. In such a strange place, Barbara "Babe" Boone could almost have passed for an ordinary girl, were it not for her impossible levels of strength, endurance and speed. Her physical abilities were so superior, in fact, that she became a celebrity in several sports (baseball, football and boxing), competing (and winning) with male athletes. After an accident that had fatal consequences, she was banned for life as a professional athlete. After overcoming depression she established herself as a bounty hunter. 

Note: During her first stage as a sports star, Barbara had her own comic, in a comedy tone entitled "Babe the Amazon from the Ozarks".

POWERS & WEAPONS 

When Barbara first discovered her powers, she was able to rip out a stump with very little effort. She has enough strength to pick up a car and launch it with no discernible effort. Her body and tissues are much more resistant to physical damage compared to an ordinary human being. Stabs, bullets, even explosions will translate to only superficial wounds and these wounds will heal in record time thanks to her accelerated healing factor, an ability to heal faster and more effectively than the normal rate. Her speed, reflexes and reaction time are on a low superhuman level.  

THUN-DOHR

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: Thomas Dore 

OCCUPATION: Adventurer, bodyguard 

IDENTITY: Public 

CLASS: Mystically empowered human 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA 

OTHER ALIASES: Tom, Thunder 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Gleason, USA 

MARITAL STATUS: Single 

KNOWN RELATIVES: Missing parents 

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Lha-I-Ha's lamasery, Protectors Inc. 

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile 

FIRST APPEARANCE: Silver Streak Comics #13 (August 1941) 

HEIGHT: 6' 1" 

WEIGHT: 195 lbs 

EYES: Blue 

HAIR: Blond 

HISTORY 

Tom Dore was an American orphan raised in the Lha-I-Ha monastery in Tibet. The blond-haired, blue-eyed young Westerner soon showed unusual prowess as a student of the art of Gom-Pa. He passed the Potala trials and proved that his chi power rivaled that of the monastery's abbot himself, a monk over 300 years old. Tom eventually left Lha-I-Ha to track down the demon Ching Kai, who had possessed a monk to steal a sacred scroll with which he planned to bring humanity to its knees. After stopping Ching Kai and returning the scroll to the monastery, Tom decided to come back to America to investigate his roots and what really happened to his parents. There he met Butch Benton, the Indestructible Man, with whom he befriended. Tom and Butch became partners and collaborated with the super team known as Protectors Inc. Tom established a lasting romantic relationship with heroine and secret agent Torchy Brown.

POWERS & WEAPONS 

Tom has been trained in Gom-Pa, an ancient Tibetan martial art based on focusing his "chi" to perform superhuman feats. He can become incredibly fast and strong, much more than a normal human being. He has shown the ability to teleport great distances in the blink of an eye, telepathy, telekinesis, the ability to cast illusions, the ability to use the power of his chi to make himself immune to damage, or put himself into a state of suspended animation to survive being encased in ice, or placed in an airless vacuum.