3-D Man
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3-D Man (Charles & Hal Chandler) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. Though his adventures take place in the 1950s, the character was created by Roy Thomas in the 1970s in the anthology series, Marvel Premiere.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Chuck Chandler, a test pilot for NASA, was piloting the experimental XF-13 rocket plane when he was captured by the Skrulls. They attempted to interrogate him, but Chuck Chandler escaped, damaging their warp drive in the process. The Skrull saucer exploded as he flew away, exposing him to strange radiation. Chandler crashed the XF-13 in the Mojave Desert, and when his brother Hal attempted to rescue him, Chuck disappeared. Hal discovered that Chuck's image had been imprinted on the lenses of his glasses. When Hal wore the glasses and concentrated, he triggered a dimensional shift that returned Chuck to reality; in his new form Chuck wore a green and red bodysuit and had triple his normal strength and speed. The 3-D Man fought crime and the occasional Skrull plot.
At some point after his 1950s adventures Hal Chandler decided to stop functioning as the 3-D Man and left his brother floating around in another dimension. Hal later encountered a down-on-his-luck Bruce Banner and, afraid that the Hulk might show up, used the glasses to summon up Chuck again. Recent events in Avengers have shown how Chandler's powers were involved with the Triune Understanding.
[edit] Alternate versions
In What If vol. 1 #9 FBI agent Jimmy Woo brought the 3-D Man together with several other heroes, including Gorilla-Man, Venus, Marvel Boy (III), and Human Robot, to form the Avengers. While the events of Avengers Forever have erased that adventure, a similar mission involving those characters (minus 3-D Man) did take place in the 1950s, as shown in the 2006 miniseries Agents of Atlas. Writer Jeff Parker has explained that he didn't use 3-D Man in Agents of Atlas, in part due to his being a 1970s retcon, not an original Atlas Comics character.[1]
The character had an inspirational predicessor, Captain 3-D, whos adventures were published in the 1950's, the era in which 3-D Man's adventures are set.
[edit] Description of Powers
Hal Chandler could, by concentrating on the image of his brother imprinted on his glasses, summon a super-powered version of his brother: The 3-D Man. This action would cause Hal to lose consciousness. 3-D Man, in turn, could only exist for three hours at a time before Hal would wake up causing the 3-D Man to subsequently disappear.
As the 3-D Man, Chuck Chandler possessed three times the physical capabilities of a "peak" human male. As his namesake suggests, 3-D Man is three times as strong, fast, and durable as a prime physical specimen, such as Captain America. His senses and his rate of healing are three times more acute and three times faster than a normal human.
Also, the 3-D Man could detect Skrulls, no matter what form they took via shape-shifting.
