Who Is High Evolutionary? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

High Evolutionary is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Herbert Edgar Wyndham, with over 576 comic issue appearances. Herbert Wyndham is a geneticist from the 1930s who became obsessed with further evolution experiments which he used on himself. Depending on what he hopes to gain from whatever his current experiments are, he has been a force for the greater good, and for his own dark purposes.

Who is High Evolutionary?

Origin Herbert Wyndham was a geneticist that built a genetic accelerator in the 1930s. The accelerator had to ability to evolve any thing that was placed inside it. An outcast by his peers, Wyndham began to work with another scientist, Jonathan Drew , the father of Jessica Drew (the future Spider-Woman ) at a research center at Wundagore Mountain in the Balkans. Jessica became sick from exposure to the uranium deposits in the mountain and Wyndham injected her with an evolutionary serum that he created from spiders. This caused her to gain her powers and eventually become Spider-Woman. Wyndham then decided to use the accelerator on himself to enhance his mind. With his advanced thinking, he decided to call himself the High Evolutionary. Creation The High Evolutionary was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby .

Key facts

High Evolutionary is of human origin and first appeared in "The People-Breeders". The character is published by Marvel. With 576 recorded issue appearances, High Evolutionary ranks among the most featured characters in comics.