REAL NAME: Rutherford H. Ryan
OCCUPATION: Adventurer, Government agent
IDENTITY: Secret
CLASS: Human mutate
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA
OTHER ALIASES: Rusty, Koschei the Deathless
PLACE OF BIRTH: Quality, USA
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: NA
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Former KGB, The Fixers
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE: Feature Comics #32 (1940)
HEIGHT: 5' 11"
WEIGHT: 200 lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blond reddish / White (after Proyekt: Koshchey)
Rusty Ryan was an orphan boy who lived on the streets until the United States entered World War II. He wanted to enlist, but since he was too young he was not accepted into the Army. Then he met John Doe, also known as the Sky Soldier, who took him as his protégé.
Ryan became the Soldier's teenage companion, and when the Soldier vanished shortly before the end of the war, Rusty felt lost and the Soviets took that as an opportunity to kidnap him and use him in their secret "Proyekt: Koshchey" to create a soulless immortal lethal agent.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Rusty had no powers, but he was a skilled fighter and a gifted athlete. As Koshchey, Rusty possessed a hyper-accelerated healing factor, rendering him virtually unkillable and immune to aging.