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Attributes

Height: 5' 10"

Weight: 180 lbs

Eyes: Green

Hair: Red

Features: Red beard and one big red "Cyclops" eyebrow across his forehead.

Summary

Created By: Steve Ditko, Tom DeFalco

Real Name: Baron Walther Theodoric (though this may be an alias).

Current Aliases: None

Former Aliases: Baron Walther Theodoric (if this isn't his real name).

Dual Identity: Known to authorities.

Current Occupation: Smooshed into a silhouette of goo by the Fantastic Four.

Former Occupation: Rich guy with a yacht.

Citizenship: Unknown.

Legal Status: A ward of the state.

Place of Birth: Unknown.

Marital Status: Single.

Known Relatives: None

Known Confidants: Tinky Weissman.

Known Allies: Hammer Harrison and Snake Marston (The Satan Squad), the Sandman

Major Enemies: Machine Man, Spider-Man, the Wasp, Paladin, the Fantastic Four.

Usual Bases: New York City, Utopia Cay.

Former Bases: New York City.

Current Groups: None

Former Groups: The Satan Squad. Part of the vaudeville team of Brimstone and Sandman.

Education: Unknown.

Powers & Paraphenalia

Strength Level: Normal human. Unless he really is a Master of the Mystic Arts as he claims.

Powers: Possible mystic powers that can create a force-field, fire mystic bolts, and jump him to another dimension... that is, i

Abilities: Talented enough to build a teleport machine, possibly use magic and look pretty good in a cape.

Equipment: The Micro-Electronic Teleport Harness, devices that create force-fields, energy bolts and illusions... that is, if his m

Weapons: The Sol-Mac, glass balls that release gas.

Limitations: Each appearance less impressive than the last.

Background

In an attempt to further his schemes, he puts together "the Satan Squad", composed of Hammer Harrison (a former strong-man who wears big blocks of concrete on his fists), Snake Marston ("the world's greatest contortionist") and assorted hoodlums. He is opposed by Duke Dawson, a crook who doesn't like the Baron horning in on his territory. Duke is, unfortunately, quickly snuffed out by Snake Marston. In the attack on the Chem-Solar Corporation, Machine Man opposes Baron Brimstone. The Baron defeats him by turning the Sol-Mac machine on the Living Robot, as the microwaves scramble MM's internal system. Machine Man successfully fights back by coating his innards with gold. He sends the Baron and his Squad off to jail.

The Baron goes underground for a while after that. He is next seen at the Island Resort of Utopia Cay, going by the name of Baron Walther Theodoric and hanging out with heiress Tinky Weissman, who is an old friend of Janet Van Dyne a.k.a., the Wasp. Janet is on vacation at the resort and she hooks up with a man calling himself Paul Denning. They are both invited to a party on the Baron's yacht but Paul begs off so Jan assumes her Wasp guise and snoops into his hotel room. There she finds a gun case and pictures of the Baron and she jumps to the conclusion that Paul is a hitman hired to kill the Baron.

She races out to the yacht in time to hitch a ride with the teleporting Baron Brimstone and his mob, who are using the party as an alibi while they go to the cashier's office of the casino and pick up some ready cash. Unfortunately for the Baron, Paul Denning, who is actually the mercenary known as Paladin, is hiding in the bank vault. Paladin and the Wasp put the Baron's teleporting "micro-electronic harness" out of commission and that's pretty much the end of that.

Except for one panel in the Fantastic Four where the Baron is reduced to being thumped along with a number of other villains in such a casual manner that we aren't even told how it is done. Suffice it to say, the Baron has been reduced to has-been status and may very well be stuck in the joint for the rest of his days.

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The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.

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