Real Name: Adam

Identity/Class: Human transformed by magic

Occupation: Alchemist's assistant

Affiliations: Erasmus Hemlock (former master)

Enemies: Unknown

Known Relatives: None.

Aliases: None.

Base of Operations: Active across time and space.

First Appearance: Thunder (I.P.C., 1970-71); Lion (1971-74); Valiant (1974-76)

Powers/Abilities: Adam does not age and cannot be injured by anything except a weapon made of solid gold. He also has some degree of superhuman strength.

History: Adam was the assistant to an elderly alchemist, Erasmus Hemlock, in the sixteenth century. His master blended the Elixir of Life, but Adam impatiently drank it before it had finished brewing properly. As a result he became immortal and invulnerable, except to weapons made of gold. He also became doomed to wander through time, fighting evil wherever he found it.

Comments: Mike Murphy informs me that the character was pastiched in Stormwatch I #44. "Called Abel Eternity, superhumanly strong, neigh invunerable, he's part of a ridiculous-looking 60s superteam along with Jenny Sparks. At a counterculture music festival in '69 (based on Altamont?), he's dared to overdose on drugs by bikers appealing to his sense of machismo. Stupidly, he takes the dare and goes into a PCP-like berserker rage, Jenny Sparks reluctantly electrocutes him before he can kill anymore bystanders."

Kelvin Green adds another sighting: "Someone looking very much like Adam Eterno appeared in Jack Staff I #12, floating in stasis in the timestream. In Jack Staff II #7, this character was revealed to be the "Eternal Warrior", thus dodging any copyright infringement."

CLARIFICATIONS: None.

Any Additions/Corrections? Please let me know.

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