High Evolutionary
| High Evolutionary | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Mighty Thor #134 (November 1966) |
| Created by |
Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | Herbert Edgar Wyndham |
| Team affiliations | New Men/Knights of Wundagore |
| Notable aliases | HE |
| Abilities | Superhuman intelligence Telepathy, telekinesis, precognition & cosmic awareness Vast matter & energy manipulation abilities Wears a sentient superhumanly durable armor capable of regeneration |
The High Evolutionary is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
The High Evolutionary was first mentioned in The Mighty Thor #133 (October 1966), first appears in The Mighty Thor #134 (November 1966), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. His minions appeared before him (but only alluded to him), in issue #132.
Herbert Edgar Wyndham was born in Manchester, England. While a student at Oxford in the 1930s, he took an interest in the work of genetic biologist Nathaniel Essex, and began experimenting with genetic manipulation, building a machine (that he called the genetic accelerator) with which he attempted to "evolve" the rats in his mother's London basement. While attending a genetics conference in Geneva, Wyndham was approached by a mysterious man (who was in truth the outcast Inhuman geneticist Phaeder) who handed to him papers containing blueprints for cracking the genetic code. With this information to bolster his experiments, Wyndham successfully developed a serum he dubbed "Isotope A."
Although expelled from the university for his single-mindedness, he finally succeeded in evolving his pet Dalmatian Dempsey into a humanoid life form with the intelligence of a chimpanzee. However, Dempsey was shot by poachers and Wyndham realized that such creatures as he would create would have no place in the human world. In partnership with scientist Jonathan Drew (father of Jessica Drew), Wyndham moved his experiments to the seclusion of Wundagore Mountain in the small Balkan nation of Transia. Discovery of uranium on the land (inherited by Drew's wife) provided vast funding, and they bought more land from local baron Gregor Russoff.
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