Who Is Max Mercury? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Max Mercury is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Max Crandall, with over 426 comic issue appearances. The first known human who ever tapped into the Speed Force, "zen master of speed" Max Mercury consistently traveled forward through time, always known by a different name over the years. A friend of Jay Garrick and Johnny Quick, Max taught Wally West how to use his speed at it's full potential and became a mentor to Bart Allen, Impulse.

Who is Max Mercury?

Origin Quicksilver later to take on the name Max Mercury The young messenger for a fort in the American West, and a friend with the Blackfoot clan. During 1838, the Blackfoot clan was ambushed, on orders from the new fort commander, As Max came close to his friend, the shaman of the Blackfoot clan, he, with his last breath, invoked ancient tribal magic over the messenger, giving him superhuman speed. The messenger said goodbye to his old friend and was sent to stop the rest of the Indians, who had been on a hunt, from being ambushed. The scout found the Indians and the US Army detachment, and disarmed them all, preventing the massacre. From that day forth he became known as Ahwehota—“He who runs beyond the wind” or Windrunner, the fastest man alive of that era. He continued to stop massacres throughout the west, and he went on for years like this. Windrunner was grateful for the gift he had but was curious about it's origin. He felt the call from what was the source of his power, what has since been called the Speed Force , the extra dimensional energy source of power for all speedsters created by the second Flash (Barry Allen) .

Key facts

Max Mercury is of human origin. The character is published by DC Comics. With 426 recorded issue appearances, Max Mercury ranks among the most featured characters in comics.