REAL NAME: Aleksander Kryn
OCCUPATION: Scientist, professional criminal
IDENTITY: Secret
CLASS: Mutate human
LEGAL STATUS: Naturalized Cituzen of USA
OTHER ALIASES: The Man with the Midas Touch
PLACE OF BIRTH: Król, Poland
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: NA
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: NA
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE: Space Adventures #7 (July 1953)
HEIGHT: 6' 2"
WEIGHT: 226 lbs
EYES: Gold (formerly blue)
HAIR: Gold (formerly brown)
When Professor Charles Townsen managed to perfect a formula to transmute any substance into gold, his colleague, Professor Aleksander Kryn, uses a paralyzing gun to incapacitate the professor and steal the formula for his own purposes. Kryn proves the formula transmuting several objects into gold. By accident, he permeates his hand with the substance and when trying to clean it, he discovers that he has acquired the ability to convert any substance into gold. In a short time his whole body has become organic gold. While experimenting with its new physionomy and powers, Kryn accidentally causes one of the laboratory burners to cause a fire. Professor Townsen dies in the fire, but Kryn, turned into liquid gold manages to survive. Kryn then decides to use his powers for his own benefit, becoming a notorious criminal.
POWERS & WEAPONS
As a result of the mutation caused by the formula, Kryn has a very particular, unique physionomy. His physical form is made of organic gold and is stronger and more resistant to physical damage than a normal human being. He doesn't need to eat or sleep. He is tremendously malleable, being able to adopt any form that Kryn wants. He is also able to acquire a normal human appearance (not golden) but it causes great stress on him, which he usually considers unnecessary (in his own words "my gold form is more perfect and beautiful"). But his main power is his "Midas Touch", for which he is able to convert anything he touches into pure gold.
