Acid Master

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Real Name

Philip Henry Master

Current Alias

Acid Master

Status

Alignment

Bad

Identity

Public Identity

Citizenship

American

Occupation

Chemist, saboteur

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

6' 2"

Weight

180 lbs (82 kg)

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Black

Origin

Universe

Earth-One

Created by

Jim Shooter, Wayne Boring

First appearance

Action Comics #348
(March, 1967)

HistoryEdit

Philip Master was born in the United States, but renounced his American citizenship to work for communist forces behind the Iron Curtain, after he was caught and convicted of selling top secret information to foreign powers. He became an agent of sabotage and terrorism using his impressive knowledge of chemistry and specialized talent for creating acid compounds for missions of chemical warfare. He has been dubbed the Acid Master because of that expertise, and the wide variety of acid-chemical compounds he has created for different uses.

To combat the threat Masters posed to American interests, the FBI decided to recruit a special agent who was not known to the enemy for a special mission to bring the Acid Master to justice. For this mission, they chose investigative journalist Clark Kent, not realizing that Kent was also Superman, because they felt that Kent's personality…that of a devout coward…made him a much less likely suspect than someone who was more dynamic. Using the training the FBI gave him, as well as surreptitious use of his super-powers, Kent was able to foil the Acid Master's scheme to sabotage the U.S. space program and to bring Masters to justice.

Subsequently, Masters was tried and convicted of plotting against the United States and sentenced to life imprisonment in a federal penitentiary.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Abilities

expert chemist

NotesEdit

• This version of Philip Master (Earth-One), including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the Multiverse in the 1985-86 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series and is now considered apocryphal.

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