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| DOCTOR DRUID |
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| BIOGRAPHICAL DATA | |
| Codename: | Doctor Druid |
| Real Name: | Anthony Ludgate |
| Sex: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Occupation: | Occult expert, lecturer, author, adventurer |
| Identity: | Publicly known |
| Legal Status: | Citizen of the United States with no criminal record |
| Other Aliases: | None Known |
| Place of Birth: | Unrevealed |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Amergin (10th Century A.D. ancestor) |
| Current Group Membership: | The Monster Hunters |
| Former Group Membership: | Unrevealed |
| Base of Operations: | The Explorers Club, New York City |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Height: | 6' 5" |
| Weight: | 310 lbs |
| Eyes: | Green |
| Hair: | Black |
| Other Distinguishing Features: | None |
| Strength Level: | Doctor Druid possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. |
| Known Superhuman Powers: | Doctor
Druid has various psionic abilities including telepathy,
the ability to mesmerize minds less adept than his own,
and mass hypnosis. Doctor Druid's hypnotic abilities
enable him to achieve numerous illusory effects including
invisibility, seeming transformation, sudden seeming
materializations. Doctor Druid also has psychokinetic powers enabling him to levitate himself or other people and objects. He also has limited precognative abilities and can sense the presence of recent uses of magic and trace them to their sources. |
| Other Abilities: | Doctor Druid employs the mystical knowledge and skills of the ancient Druids, he also possesses various yogic abilities including control over involuntary functions of his body, such as his heartbeat, respiration, bleeding and reaction to pain. |
| PARAPHERNALIA | |
| Costume Specifications: | Conventional fabrics |
| Personal Weaponry: | None |
| Special Weaponry: | None |
| Other Accessories: | Various Celtic mystical artifacts |
| Transportation: | Self-levitation |
| Design and Manufacture of Paraphernalia: | Unrevealed |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| First Appearance: | Amazing Adventure (Vol I) #1 |
| Origin Issue: | Amazing Adventure (Vol I) #1 |
| Significant Issues: | Weird Wonder Tales #19 (encountered Lama who awakened his supernatural abilities, became crimefighter); Marvel Universe #4 - #7 (at the request of Jake Curtiss met up with Ulysses Bloodstone and Zawadi at the Explorers Club, recounted part of his origin to Bloodstone and Zawadi, mentally sensed Gorgilla was heading towards the Bronx, alongside the Monster Hunters fought Gorgilla at Yankee Stadium and at the Statue of Liberty, used his powers to calm Gorgilla, after capturing Gorgilla decided to take him to Borneo, found out that Harvey Elder had sneaked aboard and that Jake Curtiss was the World War II hero The Hurricane, alongside the Monster Hunters fought the Lizard-Men, went to rescue Hurricane from capture, alongside the Monster Hunters freed Hurricane and fought Kro, defeated Kro); Marvel: TLG #2 (in 1958, with the rest of the Monster Hunters (2nd line-up), Doctor Druid fought alongside The Yankee Clipper (II) - Liberty Girl and the Black Fox against a monster attacking a Long Island Research Centre, the monster turned out to be a human transformed by an alien device) |
(1) Doctor Druid and the likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc. and are used with permission.
(2) Copyright © 2001 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved
