Bob Blake rushes to his friend chemist Harry Thurston's house to help him with an
experiment that has gone awry. Thurston's left hand has been turned into a water spout.
In Bob BlakeÕs efforts to help him Blake unwittingly turns his entire body into gushing
water. Fortunately, a counter-active chemical is used on both men and they are returned to
their normal forms. Bob Blake, living during the Great Depression, when crime is running
rampant and Global unrest is threatening the security of the United States, decides to take
injections of the chemical and become Hydroman
Hydroman was created by Bill Everett (who also created the Sub-Mariner for Timely Comics)
and first appeared as a feature in REGÕLAR FELLERS HEROIC COMICS #1 , published in August
of 1940 by Eastern Color Printing Company. The title changed its name with issue #16 to
HEROIC COMICS in January of 1943. Hydroman remained a thrill packed feature in the series
through issue #29.
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AS IN FULL COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE.