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| - Guntag Barghelt was an astrophysicist working on an island on the Mississippi river who, in a somewhat unlikely turn of events, discovered the "key harmonic of the universe", which would enable him to give "a young lad, studious, honest and with such integrity that he will use this power only against evil" the gift of "all the natural power that exists". Conning young Micky Moran into saving him from some street toughs, Guntag subjected the bewildered kid to his treatments and gave him the power to transform himself into Marvelman, the mightiest man in the universe, by saying the trigger word Kimota. Marvelman's first job was to deal with Barghelt's former colleague Herman Schwein, who was trying to steal the formula, a battle that ended with Schwein accidentally blowing himself up while stealing Guntag's boobytrapped experimental plane for his getaway. After Schwein's death, Guntag disappeared in a cloud of heavenly light to an "abode he had prepared on an asteroid in outer space", though he did promise to return if Marvelman ever needed help. Later, he transformed messenger boy Dicky Dauntless into Young Marvelman for an encore.
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