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365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

August 13th - The Thin Man

Some time in the 1930s, explorer Bruce Dickson attempted to climb Mount Kalpurthia in the Himalayas. There, he encountered the lost civilization of Kalahia, which possessed extremely advanced technology. The Kalahian people exposed Dickson to a mutagenic substance which altered his body to give him the same physical abilities as they had.  Said properties included eternal youth, tremendous physical resilience and flexibility as well as the ability to become ‘thin,’ or rather, flat. Dickson learned much of their advanced technology, and fell in love with Olalla, the daughter of the Kalahians' leader.

Dickson and his new love travelled to the outside world and became superhero contemporaries of Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, and others. The Thin Man, which Dickson adopted as his superhero name, became a member of the stateside team the Liberty Legion during World War II.

Alongside the Liberty Legion, The Thin man assisted the Thing in recovering a canister of Vibranium that had accidentally been cast back in time and defeated Brain Drain who was attacking New York City in a giant Swastika-shaped airship.

At some point Olalla, whom Dickson had married, returned to Kalahia. The Thin Man remained in order to serve his country, and when he returned to Kalahia after the war he found that the nazis had located the valley and slaughtered all its inhabitants, including his wife.

Following these tragic events The Thin Man became an obsessed nazi hunter for decades, tracking down nazi operatives all over the world.  In particularly, The Thin Man hunted the villain known as Agent Axis, the nazi commander responsible for Kalahia's destruction. With the help of Captain America, The Thin Man sought out and eventually confronted Agent Axis.  Unfortunately the villain had been brought to America by way of the obscene Operation Paperclip and thus could not be prosecuted for his wartime activities. The Thin Man became so outraged that he wrapped his pliable body around Agent Axis and snapped his neck. Shocked, Captain America immediately brought him to the authorities for murder.

The Thin Man was eventually pardoned so that the U.S. government could obtain his knowledge of advanced Kalahian technology. He was made a member of the New Invaders, and began to contribute his knowledge to the group. Unfortunately, the entire operation was actually a ruse by the ex-nazi villain, the Red Skull, who had disguised himself as the Secretary of Defense. Once this deception was revealed, The Thin Man forged ahead with the plan to create a new Invaders unit armed with Kahalian technology, specifically to thwart the Red Skull and his organization, the Axis Mundi.

The Thin Man designed the battleship Infiltrator, which could travel through multi-dimensional space, effectively allowing it to teleport long distances. The Infiltrator was sacrificed when it was rammed into a doomsday weapon in order to protect the Earth from another WWII-era supervillain, U-Man.

The hero first appeared in Mystic Comics #4 (1940).

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