Spencer Keen (Earth-616)
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History
The Blue Blaze's story starts back in 1852, where Spencer Keen visits his father, "Doctor Keen of Midwest College," before he goes to a college masquerade. Spencer is wearing an all-blue outfit with black boots, a studded weight-lifter's belt, and a hood that covers his entire head except for his eyes and his mouth and chin. Doctor Keen explains that he's discovered a mysterious "blue blaze," the fire is coming out of one end of an old-fashioned glass container, filled with a reddish fluid. Dr. Keen says that he's killed mice and insects with the Blaze, "only to have them revive months later, stronger than ever." The good Doctor says that he's going to destroy the Blue Blaze, as it frightens him.
At that moment, however, a tornado descends upon Midwest College and Spencer Keen is exposed to the Blue Blaze during the upheaval. 85% of the town's population is killed and buried, Spencer included.Spencer, however, in his grave is not dead, and actually goes into hibernation. He "gains strength a thousand fold by means of substrate dermatic rays." He also becomes invulnerable and bulletproof. Somehow, perhaps by these rays, he "is made conscious of the slow domination of evil." In 1940 the Blue Blaze rises from the grave.
In his first adventure he defeats the evil plans of Professor Maluski, who has figured a way to reanimate zombies at his command, and which he's going to use to conquer the world. In the Blaze's second adventure he stops the plans of the "crackpot inventor" Barko, who uses ice ray guns and super explosives against the Blaze, but, ends up in an insane asylum.
In the third adventure he goes up against "Dr. Gair, brilliant head of the crime syndicate," and Gair's hireling, "a sinister gazer of the stars." The gazer uses the rays of a particular star to create an enormous, super-strong, yellow monster to fight the Blaze; after the Blaze buries the monster under molten lead, the gazer also uses the star's rays to make a killing ray. The Blaze, knowing that the gazer would do something like that, produces a mirror and reflects the star's rays, killing Dr. Gair and the star-gazer.
In his final adventure the Blaze stops the evil Dr. Vortex from manipulating the two Balkan nations of "Borsia" and "Gratzia" into warring on each other. The Blaze destroys Vortex's plans and carries Vortex into the depths of the "lime pits," saying "This lime pit was your idea Doctor - it is ironic that you must perish in it." "And thus the two men descend into the murky lime pit -- one will return." After his fourth adventure, though, it's said that "with each conquest `the Blue Blaze' returns to the grave, and as he sleeps a strange cosmic force moves him underground to new centers of crime - and then he awakens. It's yet to be seen whether he has since returned from the grave.Powers and Abilities
Powers
The Blue Blaze possesses strength a thousand fold of a nornal man by means of substrate dermatic rays. He is also invulnerable and bulletproof.Weaknesses
The Blue Blaze has to return to the grave once the threat of evil has been subdued.Paraphernalia
Transportation
super-charged speedster, capable of unlimited speed
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