REAL NAME: Jack Bradley
OCCUPATION: Former construction worker, adventurer
IDENTITY: Public
CLASS: Human mutate
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA
OTHER ALIASES: The Famous Flint Man
PLACE OF BIRTH: NYC, USA
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: NA
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: United States of Matter
BASE OF OPERATIONS: United States of Matter Headquarters
FIRST APPEARANCE: Famous Funnies #89 (December 1942)
HEIGHT: 6' 1"
WEIGHT: 455 lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blond
Jack Bradley was the foreman of an excavation on a remote Pacific island. Scientist Harry Thurston, his assistant Tom Kinsman, anthropologist Joyce Church and her fiancé, pilot Robert Blake, plus native digging personnel, completed the expedition. Jack was unable to prevent the excavation from being sabotaged and a terrible explosion occurred. Only Jack himself, Joyce Church, her fiancé (Bob) and Harry Thurston survived. The explosion disintegrated them, but somehow, the strange materials of the island combined with the energy of the explosion and something in the DNA of the four made them return from nowhere, transformed into elemental creatures, living representations of the four states of matter: Gaseous (Joyce), Liquid (Blake), Plasma (Thurston) and Solid (Bradley himself). After a moment of desperation, they discovered that they could control this fantastic change simply with force of will. Using their new abilities, the four of them encountered and confronted the saboteurs, who turned out to be Lava Man and his acolytes. After defeating them, the four decided to stay together, forming the United States of Matter and choosing colorful nicknames by which they would be known: Fearless Flint, Hydro-Man, Blue Flame and Ariel.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Jack was transformed into a cryptocrystalline life form, similar in appearance to red quartz and extremely tough. His powers while in this state include superhuman strength and invulnerability.
