Fiery Mask
Fiery Mask, born Jack Castle, is an American physician and vigilante superhero in New York City.
Biography
The young physician Jack Castle was brought in by police captain Benson to investigate a strange case. Upon arriving, Castle and Benson were attacked by a green man who had apparently come under a trance, but Benson shot him down once more. Benson explained that the man had been a harmless tramp up until his disappearance a year prior, and that there had been a string of other disappearances recently. Castle took it upon himself to look into things, and found a shack with a conspicuously high electric bill. He was greeted and forced inside by another strange, green man, who took him down into a laboratory and introduced him to the doctor responsible. The doctor was abnormally large, roughly ten feet tall and green, and there were several other green, mindless men in containment, and a woman who had yet to be affected. Castle learned that the men had been hypnotized into the doctor's control, and the doctor soon attempted to do the same to him. But Castle's willpower was too strong, and the doctor turned his hypnosis machine on full blast, causing an unexpected explosion. Castle and the doctor emerged unharmed, and in fact Castle had inherited new powers. As the immense doctor attacked him, Castle found that he could overpower him effortlessly. As a chain reaction began from the explosion, Castle retrieved the woman and escaped the laboratory, jumping from the shack in a massive leap. Castle concluded that he had assumed the powers of nature, including the sun, wind, and rain, and dubbed himself the Fiery Mask.[1] Some time later, he put a stop to Francis Dork's scheme to flood New York with a deadly protoplasm.[2]