Doctor Hydro (Quality Universe)

Doctor Hydro
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Real Name	Unknown
Main Alias	Doctor Hydro
Base Of Operations	Lago Island, Pacific Ocean
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Occupation	Scientist
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Bald
Origin
Universe	Quality Universe
Creators	Dick Wood · Dick Dillin
First Appearance	Blackhawk #88 (May, 1955)
Appearance of Death	Blackhawk #88 (May, 1955)

You will speak to your government officials ... You will tell them that I, Doctor Hydro, demand the presidency of the United States! Tell them I have had an offer from the Kremlin! If they do not meet my terms Russia receives my invention!

— Doctor Hydro

In the mid-1950s, Doctor Hydro was briefly an enemy of the Blackhawks.

History

In 1955, on Lago Island in the Pacific Ocean, Doctor Hydro invented the "Silencer," which according to him was "... capable of making an H-bomb explosion no more dangerous than a cap pistol!" He proved it by interfering with a U.S. H-Bomb test. A ray projected from Hydro's device nullified the nuclear explosion, which produced only a tiny puff.

Doctor Hydro then contacted the Blackhawks, again demonstrated the effectiveness of his technology, and told them his demands. He claimed to have a deal with the Russian government, but when he made his big move he instead went to China. The Blackhawks pursued him there, and parachuted onto the coastal Chinese mainland, to try to destroy the Silencer. They were unsuccessful and had to observe from hiding as Hydro and his new partners set up their bomb test.

From China, Blackhawk flew back to the U.S. H-Bomb test base, and picked up another H-Bomb! Then he dropped it, near the Chinese bomb-test-site island, in the deep salt water where the rays of Hydro's machine couldn't hit it. Hydro's gadget worked just fine, it nullified the Chinese test bomb, but when Blackhawk's back-up H-Bomb exploded, the Reds thought Hydro's machine was a failure! So they smashed their only copy of his device, and dragged him away to be shot.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• The Silencer

Related

• 1 Appearances of Doctor Hydro (Quality Universe)
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• 1 Quotations by or about Doctor Hydro (Quality Universe)
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Footnotes

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