Who Is Strongman? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Strongman is a Holyoke comic book character, the alter ego of Percy van Norton, with over 22 comic issue appearances. Strongman is one of many Superman-clones during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Later he was retcon as a villain and a member of Battle-Axis.

Who is Strongman?

History Holyoke Origin In the Golden Age , superheroes got their powers in a lot of different ways, from being strange alien visitors, to breathing heavy water, to just being born that way. Percy van Norton, “useless son of a wealthy man,” however is unique, he got his "strength of a hundred elephants, speed of a racing car, and the skin with the toughness of a rhinoceros,” by reading a book. The "Secret Book of Yogi Exercises" to be exact. Keeping up his guise as pointless and lazy “super playboy” Percy from time to time, when the need arises, he rips off his mundane everyday tuxedo and becomes Strongman, the Perfect Human. Strongman fell into the public domain like many less popular comic book superheroes by the end of World War II . Marvel Invaders Strongman, along with Doctor Nemesis , Spider Queen , Volton , and The Human Meteor , were retcon by Roy Thomas at Marvel Comics in 1993. In this new continuity, Strongman took a serum that gave him superpowers. For a while he began as a crimefighter, but something went wrong.

Key facts

Strongman is of human origin and first appeared in "Illegal Raider Ship". The character is published by Holyoke. With 22 recorded issue appearances, Strongman ranks among the most featured characters in comics.