PRISM

Real Name: Linus Powell

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Scientist

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Great Salt Lake, Utah

First Appearance: Eclipso Annual #1 (September, 1993)

Powers: Prism could absorb and project all wavelengths of light, and use light to create illusions or render him invisible. His glass-like body was superhumanly durable.

History:  (Eclipso Annual #1) - Linus Powell was a gifted youngster obsessed with prisms and light. He made several inventions as a high schooler and spent a stint in NASA during college. His greatest discovery was the Powell Unified Theory of Light that showed the possibility of faster-than-light travel. This earned him a Noberl Prize, and he used the money to open an observatory on the Great Salt Lake, constructing a fusion reactor that functioned as a miniature sun using a black diamond given to him by Dr. Bruce Gordon, the arch-enemy of Eclipso. They both knew Eclipso would try to stop him from using a black diamond to generate light, but the location of the observatory was strategic; the water serving as a natural barrier that gave Powell time to disable Eclipsoi's possessed legions using a solar battery panel. Journalist Sidney Bateman covered Powell's work for Johnny Peril's Thrill Seekers. He demonstrated the nightly repulsion of Eclipso, but Eclipso witnessed the Space Parasite Angon commit a massacre on a highway, and convinced her to attack the observatory, saying they were working on a weapon to destroy her and her brethren. Angon slaughtered Bateman and Powell's crew, and Powell valiantly if pointlessly fought back. She was impressed, and fed from his spinal fluid, activating his metagene. Eclipso entered the facility and reclaimed his diamond, destroying the reactor, and causing a huge explosion. Powell was blasted clear, and woke up learning he'd been transformed into a crystalline form with power over light. Fellow Bloodline heroes Loose Cannon, Anima, Sparx, Edge, and Nightblade found him, and offered him the chance to join them and destroy the Space Parasites. Powell, or Prism as Sparx called him, was disorientated, and they fought until he came to his senses. The heores, with the help of Johnny Peril, fought Angon, who'd been possessed by Eclipso, and Prism banished Eclipso by turning the light of his black diamond into sunlight. He decided to stay with his new friends and finish off the Parasites.

Comments: Created by Robert Loren Fleming & David G. Klein.