Hector Hammond
Created by Gil Kane & John Broome
+ History
Hector Hammond was a petty criminal laying low in the California hills when he discovered a glowing meteorite that had evolved nearby plants into a form that would not exist for another 100,000 years. This meteorite fragment's other half landed in North America years ago and evolved the local apes into the scientific race that would found Gorilla City. Hector carried the meteorite back to his hideout, and then captured four prominent scientists and exposed them to the meteor. The scientists evolved into future-men who he forced to create fantastic inventions, allowing Hector to take credit for the work and become a celebrity. Green Lantern II was searching for the scientists, and came on Hector's hideout. Green Lantern restored the four scientists to normal and captured Hector. (Green Lantern vol. 2 #5)
Hector exposed himself to the rays of the meteor, evolving himself into a future-man. He joined a small band of villains consisting of Pied Piper, Fisherman, Angle-Man and Mister Memory, but the group was defeated by the JLA. (Justice League of America #14)
Hector again exposed himself to the meteor in order to strengthen his mental powers. He succeeded, but his body evolved to the point where it was immobile and useless. Discovering that other meteor fragments were scattered across the globe, he attempted to retrieve them. Green Lantern confronted him, and Hector tried to steal Lantern's power ring for his own evil designs. The power ring erected self-defense mechanisms, and the interference temporarily shut down Hector's mind. (GL #22)
Realizing he could not have the power ring for himself, Hector tried an alternate plan of siphoning the ring's energy. Using this energy Hector built an exo-skeleton and tried to kill Green Lantern, but his scheme failed when the energy he stole from Lantern ran out and his exo-skeleton was depowered. (#128)
Hector became friends with Gorilla Grodd, whose mental powers derived from the same type of meteor that gave Hector his powers. After months of testing each other's mental abilities in games of chess, they decided to join forces to fight Flash III and Green Lantern.
Hammond drove a crowd of New Yorkers insane in an attempt to distract Green Lantern IV and put him under mental domination. Impulse pulled Lantern away from one of Hammond�s mind blasts, thus interrupting the process and inadvertently gaining temporary mental control of Lantern for himself. Lantern used his power ring to put Hammond in an emerald cell and kept him from concentrating and using his mental powers by blasting the Spice Girls over a gigantic stereo system. (Green Lantern 80-Page Giant #2)
+ Powers
Hector Hammond's body was atrophied and incapable of movement. He possessed a superhuman evolved mind that gave him telekinesis and mind control powers. Hammond's mind enabled him to develop an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry.
Appearances + References
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Crisis
on Infinite Earths #10