Who Is Jack of Hearts? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Jack of Hearts is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Jonathan Hart, with over 330 comic issue appearances. The son of the scientist Philip Hart who created an energy source called "zero fluid" and Marie, an alien humanoid woman of the Contraxian race.

Who is Jack of Hearts?

Origin Jack Hart was the son of Philip Hart, a brilliant scientist who developed a revolutionary, extremely efficient liquid fuel called Zero Fluid, and a humanoid alien woman of the Contraxian race. The alien was one of many scientists dispatched to try to discover an energy source to resuscitate the dwindling nuclear processes of the Contraxian sun. Learning of Hart's experiments, the alien assumed a totally human form to keep Hart under surveillance. Hart and the alien eventually met, married, and produced a son they named Jack. The alien woman, "Marie," died in a car accident when the boy was a child. Neither her husband nor child ever learned of her extraterrestrial origin. Jack grew up charming and intelligent, becoming a poetry major at New Haven College in Connecticut. There he met the one girl who wasn't interested in him - Marcy Kane.

Key facts

Jack of Hearts is of alien origin and first appeared in "To Storm the Gates of Hell". The character is published by Marvel. With 330 recorded issue appearances, Jack of Hearts ranks among the most featured characters in comics.