the Black Marvel
| Strength 10d |
Agility 6c |
Intellect 4x |
Willpower 6d |
| Hand Size: Edge: |
4 (25) 2 |
Origin:
Dan Lyons, the Black Marvel, is just a normal human, in that he lacks super-human powers of any stripe, whether we speak of those gained by a scientific accident, intense sorcerous education, or even alien ancestry. He is very, very good with a bow, however.
Powers:
(none)
Hindrances / Augmentations:
(none)
Equipment:
Long Bow (a): though he usually fights evildoers with his fists, Dan is nonetheless a crack shot with this weapon. He can use it to inflict his Agility +4 in piercing damage in ranged combat, and can use a variety of trick shots to confuse and befuddle his foes.
Skills:
Ricochet (a): this skill allows Dan to bounce a weapon (usually his arrows) off one or more objects, to strike either multiple targets with one projectile or a single target by surprise. These secondary or ambush attacks occur as a contingent action.
Skill / Bows (a): his weapon of choice, Dan can use the bow with incredible accuracy. He can make attacks, trick shots, and other actions with a bow as if the difficulty were one difficulty level lower than normal. He can technically use a crossbow as well, but has never been shown to do so.
Survival (w): Dan is a true outdoorsman, and can easily keep himself alive in a variety of environments, including savage deserts, arctic wastes, and even the urban jungle. He can even use this skill to recover his bearings should he lose his sense of direction, or to find food if he lacks it.
Wrestling (s): if he damages a target in unarmed melee combat, Dan can attempt an average difficulty Strength (strength) action to hold onto his foe. He can maintain this hold with a similar action each subsequent exchange, inflicting like damage until he lets go or is dislodged.
Contacts:
For the most part, Dan fought the good fight all by himself, in his quest to perform one hundred good deeds. Aside from his friends in the Black Feet tribe, he has no known contacts - but he is known as a hero of his age, and can likely get some help from his fellows.
Calling:
Adventurer: Dan is a true hero at heart, wishing to do good deeds. Though Quested with the accomplishment of one hundred good deeds, to be specific, he does his duty with glee. This is because Dan has always wanted to be a hero, and went to great lengths to earn his identity.
Costume:
As the Black Marvel, Dan wore a black stretch fabric suit, coupled with black shorts over the stretch suit, a yellow belt, yellow gloves, yellow buccaneer boots, a red cape, and a black half-hood that covers the man's eyes but leaves the rest of his face visible.
Personality:
Dan Lyons, the Black Marvel, is confident and self-assured, and seems dead-set on becoming a hero. In fact, he made a solemn vow to the tribal chief that gave him his heroic persona to do good deeds and to constantly maintain his worthiness to the Black Marvel title.
Real Name: Daniel 'Dan' Lyons
Occupation: adventurer
Legal Status: American citizen with no known criminal record
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none
Group Affiliation: none
Height: 5' 9'
Hair: brown
Eyes: green
Weight: 170 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: none
Story:
After the last three viable candidates fail the many tests of worth, tribal outsider Dan Lyons asked the dying Black Feet chief if he could attempt them as well. Since Dan's father had helped the chief out in the past, he saw no problem with this.
Dan was then given extreme trials of speed, strength and stamina. These included besting deer in a foot race, outswimming salmon in the river, striking multiple bullseyes while blindfolded, and even catching several arrows fired at him from an ambush!
For his last trial, Dan must kill a huge bear... unarmed! Managing this feat with relative ease, he returned to the Black Feet with the dead bear in tow, and upon his arrival he was given the mantle of the Black Marvel - and was admonished to act in loyalty, honesty and clean living!
Promising to live up to the Black Marvel legacy, Dan collected his new costume and vowed to carve one notch in his bow for every good act he committed to help mankind. Happy with this, the dying chief finally passed on and left Dan to get on with the business of heroics.
Returning to the city, Dan found the power cut suddenly and, investigating this mystery, located several armed thugs sabotaging the power plant. Trouncing them, he then interrogated one thug to this destruction a distraction to facilitate their robbery of the local armory!
Breaking up this crime before it was too late, Dan discovered the whole plot was hatched by a so-called Combine of Crime, a corporation of criminals bent on taking over all illicit activity in the city. Naturally, though, the man died of an inexplicable heart attack before snitching further.
Dan never got to the bottom of this so called Combine of Crime though, for he was next seen fighting a gang of Nazis hanging out in the States. They had killed Professor Eisenberg, a man who had fled Germany to dedicate his life to the cause of Democracy itself!
Dan next did battle as the Black Marvel to end the crime spree of the so-called Grinner, a formerly peaceful scientist who had managed to transform himself into a sociopathic freak with a would-be cure for pneumonia. The Grinner lost his mob - and his very life - in battle with our hero.
Wandering abroad, Dan became embroiled in a plot to swindle the Chisolm diamond mine away from its owner in South Africa. Investigating, Dan was overpowered and given to cannibals for lunch, but our hero persevered and stopped the would-be swindler from making off with the mine.
Returning to the States, Dan next mixed it up with 'Longnails' Legarva, a mobster trying to force an ex-con to go bad to rob the bank he's working at now. Naturally, Dan had been hunting him for some time as the Black Marvel and, growing wise to Legarva's plot, foiled it handily.
Though a majority of Dan's further escapades have yet to be revealed, he nonetheless continued to have bizarre adventures like these for the duration of World War II, slowly adding notches to his bow all the while.
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