Vulcan, Son of Fire

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Real Name

Christopher Pike

Current Alias

Vulcan, Son of Fire

Affiliation

Secret Society of Super-Villains II

Status

Alignment

Bad

Citizenship

American

Occupation

Astronaut

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Eyes

Yellow

Unusual Features

red skin, apparently red hot

Origin

Universe

Earth-Two, New Earth

Created by

Gerry Conway, Keith Giffen, Wally Wood

First appearance

All-Star Comics #60
(June, 1976)

HistoryEdit

Commander Christopher Pike was selected for a space mission aboard the Vulcan Probe One, a to hundred day orbit of the Sun. For unknown reasons however, he went berserk on board the spacecraft, killing his two colleagues Raoul Jerome and Dr Edward Solomon and sending the Vulcan Probe plunging toward the Sun. The ship's command module ignited, forming a molten shell around Pike's body which somehow protected him from the heat but caused him to become irradiated. Three months later, Pike crashed to Earth (right on schedule), mutated, radiating heat and calling himself Vulcan, Son of Fire, and went on a rampage in Gotham city, absorbing huge amounts of electrical energy from the city. He attempted to kill his childhood heroes the Justice Society of America, believing that his desire to emulate 'heroes' had cost him his humanity, but the JSA learned that Pike's transformation had been caused by a benevolent alien named XLK-JNN, who had instigated the process in order to stop Pike from being consumed by the Sun's heat. The transformation was flawed, hence Pike's instability, and the alien intended to fix the flaw but Pike, angered at what had been done to him, incinerated him before he could do so. The Star Spangled Kid used Starman's Cosmic Rod to overload Pike with sunlight, seemingly destroying him.

Years later, Pike turned up alive, trapped in a Limbo dimension where he was discovered by the Secret Society of Super-Villains II, whose ranks he joined in order to travel back to 1941 and battle the All-Star Squadron and the time traveling members of Infinity Inc at the command of the Ultra-Humanite. The Society were defeated and returned to Limbo, but have all since returned to Earth. Pike was later seen during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

NotesEdit

• The history recounted above occurred on Earth-Two before the Crisis on Infinite Earths rewrote history, and some details of Pike's may have since been altered.
  

TriviaEdit

• Pike was named after Captain Christopher Pike, James T Kirk's predecessor as captain of the Starship Enterprise in the original Star Trek series.

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