REAL NAME: Chester Johansen
OCCUPATION: Scientist, high tech weapons dealer
IDENTITY: Secret
CLASS: Human technology user
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA
OTHER ALIASES: NA
PLACE OF BIRTH: Quality, USA
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: NA
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Clutching Hand
BASE OF OPERATIONS: NA
FIRST APPEARANCE: Feature Comics #107 (February 1947)
HEIGHT: 5' 11"
WEIGHT: 145 lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: White
Crimesmith was a criminal genius who manufactured extremely advanced weapons for organized crime syndicates.
He served a sentence in jail, where he vowed never to return.
When he was released, he developed the Hand of Horror, perhaps his most celebrated invention, a large, remote-controlled robotic hand / gauntlet, capable of acting autonomously or semi-autonomously.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Crimesmith was an advanced scientific genius, capable of creating technology and weapons far ahead of his time.