Real Name: Inapplicable [So some other entries do forgo the "Alter Ego" entry. But I'm not sure why his real name is "inapplicable?" Maybe that'll be explained in his history!]
Occupation: Inapplicable [Not even Professional Criminal? Or Would-Be Conqueror? Or Swamp Guardian?]
Marital Status: Inapplicable [Why can't he be single? Am I to presume that nobody would ever have him? Because I happen to know that he was married on Wednesday, you ill-informed Who's Who entry! So he should at least be divorced or separated! Not inapplicable!] Known Relatives: Inapplicable [I'm starting to sense a trend!]
Group Affiliation: Injustice Society of the World [At least it begins with an "in."]
Base of Operations: Slaughter Swamp, outside Gotham City; otherwise Mobile
First Appearance: ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #61
Height: 7'5" Weight: 517 lbs.
Eyes: White Hair: White
HISTORY
In 1894 a man named Cyrus Gold was murdered in Slaughter Swamp outside Gotham City. His remains were never found, but instead lay in a bog for fifty years. During that time bits of rotten wood and leaves accumulated about the skeleton, and gradually formed into a gigantic humanoid creature that somehow achieved a strange form of life.
One Monday night in 1944 this strange creature emerged from the bog in Slaughter Swamp. He confronted two escaped criminals and took their clothes [At least this strange form of life had a sense of modesty. Although I'm curious as to what he looks like naked now, being composed of wood and leaves.]. The next day the creature came upon a hobo camp where he met a criminal gang. When asked his name, the creature replied that he had none but that he had been born on Monday. One criminal remarked he was like the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy, who was "born on a Monday".
The creature adopted this name as his own [So he was also "christened on Tuesday". Which means he got married the next day on his next big adventure, correct?!]. (Grundy was "born" with some knowledge--such as how to speak English--but was ignorant of many other things.) Seeing his superhuman nature [and realizing Grundy was now the smartest one of their group], the criminals made Grundy their leader and embarked on a series of robberies in Gotham City.
During the first robbery Grundy clashed with who was to be his greatest enemy, the original Green Lantern (see Green Lantern I). Grundy tried to kill the Emerald Crusader, but the gallant hero survived. Grundy, having learned now how to kill, committed eleven brutal murders [Imagine what he could have accomplished if the first thing he learned was math!]. Green Lantern finally defeated Grundy by hurling him into the path of an oncoming train.
Somehow Grundy survived, and over the succeeding years has repeatedly fought Green Lantern as well as members of the All-Star Squadron, Infinity Inc., the Justice League of America, and the Justice Society of America (see individual listings). For a time Grundy was allied with the Injustice Society of the World (see ISW), but his greatest passion has been his hatred of the original Green Lantern. Grundy has extended this hatred to Green Lantern's children Jade and Obsidian (see Jade, Obsidian).
Although Grundy recently seemed to have been buried by a glacier, he subsequently joined an army of super-villains during the so-called crisis on infinite earths. Solomon Grundy's current whereabouts are unknown.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Solomon Grundy possesses vast superhuman strength. He is virtually impossible to kill. He is immune to bullets, fire, and extreme cold, and can survive indefinitely without food, water, or oxygen.
Solomon Grundy can absorb certain forms of energy, such a magical energy, and manipulate the absorbed energy at will. Radioactivity once gave him telekinetic powers for a brief time [Of course it did.].
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