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| - Pseudoderm was created by scientists Aristotle Rodor and Arby Twain for usage as a perfect, invisible skin-imitating bandage. The material was found toxic, however, on open wounds, and the project was scrapped. Years later Dr. Twain, in a spot of bad luck financially, attempted to sell the bandage to a third world country. At the same time, Vic Sage, investigative journalist, had done an incorrectly informed report on the news about Dr. Twain killing patients in his medical practice. Worried his invention would be responsible for the deaths of thousands, Rodor, seeing Sage's report on the news about Twain, visited him and told him about Twain's actual illegal activities. Sage offered to break into Twain's apartment to find incriminating evidence, and because he would surely be recognized as a TV figure, Rodor volunteered the Pseudoderm as a mask to hide his identity. Pseudoderm could be used as a feature hiding mask, because it was not toxic as long as there were no open wounds. Sage, donning what would later become his outfit as The Question, waited outside Twain's window and listened to him talk to his accomplices, before bursting in and in a fit of rage subduing all of them with his fists. He then took the men's clothes and tied them up in their own Psuedoderm, found and photographed the necessary evidence, and called the police. That night he redeemed himself on the air.
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