REAL NAME: NA
OCCUPATION: Nazi agent, professional criminal, adventurer
IDENTITY: Secret
CLASS: Mutate human
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of Austria
OTHER ALIASES: The Scourge
PLACE OF BIRTH: Vienna (Austria)
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: Jakob Karno (foster father)
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: NA
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE: Blue Bolt v02 #01 (June 1941)
HEIGHT: 6' 8"
WEIGHT: 350 lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blond
Jakob Karno was a very brilliant scientist, but also an unscrupulous man. He had been greatly impressed by a lecture by Professor Blair on human enhancement and decided to carry out his own experiment. After getting a baby in an orphanage, he put all his efforts into making him a super-man... A super-man completely under his orders. Karno called the boy Simba. Simba's development paralleled Dick Cole's, in a way, his reflection on the other side of the mirror. It was then that the Nazis came to power in Germany and the annexation of Austria took place. Dr. Karno quickly became a leading member of the party. By 1941 Simba and Karno had already carried out numerous missions for Hitler (robbery, kidnapping, assassination). Their next assignment was to eliminate Dr. Blair and his ward. After several clashes ended in a draw, Simba turned against Karno, seeing the difference in treatment that Dr. Blair gave to his ward. Simba crippled brutally Dr. Karno and left him abandoned to his fate. From that moment on he began working independently, free from Dr. Karno's agenda or the Nazis. He continued antagonizing with Dick, although little by little their relationship became a mere competition to see which one was the best, and even, much later, a certain fraternity, for both sharing a similar origin.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Because of the chemical compounds Dr. Karno administered to him during his upbringing, Simba was stronger, faster, and more agile than the average human. In fact, Simba was much stronger and heavier than his American counterpart. Like Dick Cole, he could get injured, but he was generally tougher than a normal human and also healed much faster. Mentally he was also above average, though due to Karno's upbringing, he was much more aggressive and less cerebral.
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