TOKAMAK
Real Name: Henry Hewitt
Class: Altered human
Occupation: Chairman of the Hewitt Corporation
Group Affiliation: 2000 Committee
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Arlingtoin, Virginia
First Appearance: (as Henry Hewitt)Fury of Firestorm #15(August, 1983), (as Tokamak)Fury of Firestorm #18(November, 1983)
Powers: Tokamak can project energy rings that alter the atomic structure of whatever was trapped within them. He could also use them to compress matter or demolish objects with tremendous force. Tokamak’s body is filled with radioactive energy, and must be contained in his armored suit. His suit is also equipped with jet-boots that enable him to fly.History: Henry Hewitt was chairman and chief stockholder of the Hewitt Corporation, as well as an ally of the subversive 2000 Committee. Hewitt was ruthless, but also very sickly, in a state of almost total paralysis and unable to speak above a whisper. Hewitt kidnapped Lorraine Reilly, the daughter of N.Y. senator Walter Reilly in order to force the senator to cast the decisive vote on a bill that gave the Hewitt Corporation a monopoly on atomic power research. Hewitt then had Multiplex attempt to duplicate the nuclear accident that had given both Firestorm and Multiplex their superhuman powers. Hewitt used Lorraine as a test subject for Multiplex’s experimental nuclear reactor, and the radiation transformed her into Firehawk. Hewitt subjected her to mental conditioning, and sent her to kill Firestorm.
(Fury of Firestorm #18)-Seeing Firehawks’ failure, Hewitt decided to empower himself with the nuclear reactor. He got the power he wanted, and dubbed himself Tokamak, the Human Reactor. He decided to punish Firehawk for her failure, and make her his first victim. Firehawk and Firestorm teamed up to defeat Tokamak, and his containment suit was damaged in the battle. Tokamak’s unstable energy caused a huge explosion and it was only Firestorms’ intervention that prevented a nuclear holocaust. Tokamak was presumably destroyed.
List of appearances: Crisis on Infinite Earths #10
Fury of Firestorm #15, 17, 18, 20
Fury of Firestorm Annual #1
Comments: Created by George Tuska, Gerry Conway & Pat Broderick
Tokamak is the Russian word for a fusion plasma reactor.
Last updated: 3/23/2002
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