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Secret Identity: none

Identity/Class: Human mutate

Occupation: student

Known Relatives: Chris (father) Carl (deceased uncle), Arlene (mother)

Base of Operations: Earth A

Powers/Abilities: Ultrastrength, invulnerability. Fluoroscopic vision, laser vision and ultra-hearing. Able to fly, possesses ultraspeed.

History: Daughter of Chris (Ultiman) Kelly and Arlene (Arliss) Kelly. Perfectly normal little girl whose parents divorced when she was five years old. She lives with her mother but spend as much time with her father as possible, usually at the compound in the Rockies. She tried to be there especially when he recharged his powers to nurse him through the resulting radiation sickness.

On one such visit something went terribly wrong and the meteor exploded, charging Christie with powers like her father’s. Ultiman disappeared and was presumed dead, but was actually supercharged with energy and transformed into a raging hulking monster.

When the energy faded, Chris Kelly let the world and his daughter believe that he was dead. The Uranium meteor was gone and the only source of power was Christie herself. Ultiman discovered to his horror that his body greedily sucked the energy from christie along with her life force. He disappeared so as not be tempted by the power. Christie became ULTRAGIRL to try to make up for the absence of her father.

Ultragirl first began appearing in Big Bang Comics in the late 1960s. The stories, “Tales of Tomorrow” were set in the near future, after Ultiman had married and had an ultra-powered teenaged daughter. Christine Kelly’s mother was always shown in shadow or from behind, her face never shown, so the readers couldn’t be certain which of his many girlfriends Ultiman had married.

Because she was from an undetermined future, most of her adventures took place 1000 years farther into in the future, where she joined a group of super powered teenagers called the Pantheon of Heroes.

Secret Identity: none

Nicknames: The Man of the Future; The Ultimate Human Being

Identity/Class: Human mutate

Powers/Abilities: Ultra level: strength, invulnerability, speed, and senses. Able to fly. Fluoroscopic vision.

Strength Level: Possibly the most powerful of all Big Bang characters. He doesn’t have his Earth-A’s weakness to magic or the need to recharge his powers.

Known Relatives: brother Carl Kelly

Base of Operations: Earth B

Affiliations: Knights of Justice in the 1940s thru 60s.

National Guardians in the 1980s & 90s.

History: Chris Kelly was a 4F reject driving home from his draft board, whose car was hit by a glowing meteor, charging him up with atomic power. He became as strong as an ox, as fast as a racing car, had skin like steel and could jump the length of a football field.

His abilities grew more powerful. Soon he was flying instead of leaping. His senses were sensational: he could see long distances, and through or around almost anything. His hearing and sense of smell were fantastically advanced, and he could even hold his breath for hours underwater and eventually in outer space.

This Ultiman was actually something of a bully, using force to show people the error of their ways. One of his favorite tricks in the early days was to drop someone off of a skyscraper, jump off and harass them on the way down, only to catch them before they hit the ground.

He did mellow a bit. The Man of the Future became something of a benevolent “big brother’ to Empire City. He established an office in the penthouse of the Empire City Building where he watched over the city for signs of trouble, using a myriad of telescopes and listening to a police band radio in the earliest days, eventually hiring a secretary, Lori Lake (Ultiman’s Girl Friday).

People could actually come and ask for help, just like applying for a loan at the bank. Lori soon fell in love with her boss and plotted to somehow make him feel the same way about her.

Instead of two-bit thugs and social problems, the Ultimate Human Being soon found himself facing more powerful adversaries: Cortex, the human brain. Bombshell, the femme fatale with exploding lipstick and a penchant for blowing things up. Mr. Mixitup, visitor from another world who looked something like Charlie McCarthy and caused his victims to suffer from delusional dementia. The Time Pirates.

Ultiman eventually married Lori Lake, and settled down to domestic tranquility and bliss – until Lori died giving birth to their super powered baby. He is a bitter older man, his powers continuing to grow over the years.

Secret Identity: Adopted the persona of deceased brother Carl

Nickname: The Man of the Future; The Ultimate Human Being

Identity/Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Astronaut

Affiliations: Round Table of America;

Known Relatives: Carl (brother), Arlene (ex-wife), Christine (daughter, Ultragirl)

Base of Operations: Earth A

Powers/Abilities: Ultrastrength, invulnerability. Fluoroscopic vision, laser vision and ultra-hearing. Able to fly, possesses ultraspeed.

History: Lt. Chris Kelly was an astronaut aboard a Gemini space capsule which was struck by an radioactive meteor. The radiation killed his fellow astronaut, but Kelly survived re-entry to Earth where he was terminally ill with radiation sickness. Luckily, his body metastasized and instead of killing him absorbed the radiation, transforming it into energy. Kelly became a human battery: the ultimate human being!

Kelly, already famous as one of the original astronauts was now doubly so, his illness and miraculous recovery having played out on the TV. The press was calling him the “ultimate human being” and eventually Ultiman. Unfortunately, the radiation absorbed by Kelly’s body played havoc with the delicate instruments in space capsules and even airplanes, and it appeared that his military career was over.

President Kennedy was intrigued by this charismatic new superstar and tapped him as the spokesman for the physical fitness program. The U.S. government was ecstatic to have a superhuman the payroll and gave him his own department and office at the Pentagon. General Black was his liaison and Lori Lake became his personal secretary.

Kelly took on the job to help mankind, refusing be used as a military super weapon and kept his word, despite increasing pressure from succeeding Presidents. Ultiman’s very existence spurred a new arms race, with all countries striving to develop their own super humans.

Ultiman ended up either fighting or banding together with many of these other super weapons. His arch-enemy was the brilliant but evil Dexter Cortex who got even smarter by plugging his brain directly into a computer. Cortex become as much machine as man, sending robot drone bodies out to harass Ultiman.

Perhaps the most dangerous villain of all was Chris Kelly’s much younger brother Carl, who was jealous of Chris’ powers and fame. Carl was in love with Lori Lake and always looking for a way to make his famous brother look bad in front of her and the world. He eventually fell in with a criminal crowd. After a stint in reform school, the now grown up Carl re-emerged looking nearly identical to his brother. Working with Cortex, Carl found a way to finally steal his brother’s powers, only to perish while saving the powerless Chris.

Being a full-time hero and celebrity grated on Chris Kelly. He created his Secret Citadel in an extinct volcano as a place where he could get away from it all. After brother Carl’s death, Chris assumed his brother’s identity and secured him a job on the payroll at the Pentagon, giving himself a measure of peace and quiet. It also gave him an inside track to the criminal world, where Carl was known as a shady character.

Ultiman’s main weakness is that his body burns the atomic energy and must be periodically recharged by the Ultranium (ultra-uranium) meteor. At first it operated like Popeye eating spinach. Over time, he had to expose himself to larger and larger doses, suffering from radiation poisoning in the process until his body could adapt and absorb the energy. His powers have varied in intensity thereafter, and if Ultiman exerts himself too much, he is in danger of exhausting them.

Tired of the radiation sickness and failing powers, Chris Kelly let the powers fade away in the 1980s and retired to a fantastic house in the Rocky Mountains with his new bride. It wasn’t Lori Lake, but a TV reported named Arlene Arliss. Using his army of robot doubles to fight. The marriage eventually failed, Mrs. Kelly not liking the solitary life and then becoming fearful of the radiation effects on her and their baby when Ultiman ended his retirement.

Identity/Class: Human transformed by magic

Occupation: Librarian

Friends: Mother Nature, Professor Eureka, Boom-Boom the Thunder Cat

Enemies: Dr Hy Q Binana, Tornado Girl, the Sinister snake

Known Relatives: Eve L. Wilson (sister), Philip and Agnes Wilson (parents)

Alias: the World’s Strongest Girl

Base of Operations: the town of Danville

Powers/Abilities: The powers of nature and abilities of its animals. Able to fly like a bird, strong as an elephant, the sight of an eagle, skin as hard as a diamond, etc. Also able to pass her abilities temporarily to someone else.

History: Fourteen year old Molly Wilson locked the front door of the library, hanging up the “Closed” sign. It was after hours, but the young librarian’s workday wasn’t over until all the books were filed back onto the shelves.

She worked slowly, pushing a cart full of books through the deserted library and humming happily to herself. She was in no hurry to get back to her lonely room at the orphanage.

Molly stopped suddenly, staring at a door on the back wall. “Strange,” thought Molly, “That door was never there before!” And it was the sort of door that a person couldn’t help BUT to notice, painted bright red like the doors at the Chinese restaurant down the street.

“Gosh, I’d better make sure this new door is locked,” said the little librarian, but when she turned the handle, the door opened. Molly peered in. She saw a long dim hallway, lit by flickering candles. Colorful doors were spaced down either side of the corridor: red, blue, yellow, purple – - all colors of the rainbow.

Halfway down the hallway, a green door stood open and a pale light spilled out. As soon as Molly stepped ithrough the doorway into the hall, the door swung shut behind her, but the plucky girl wasn’t frightened. She nade her way toward the open doorway.

It was dark inside the room. A solitary light burned on a table in the distance. Molly walked toward the light, hoping to find a telephone but there was nothing on the table except a large leatherbound book and a small wooden box.

The book was open, but the pages were blank. The young girl closed the book to see what its title was and gasped “Jeepers!” There, imprinted in the leather of the volume’s front cover was her name – - Molly Wilson!

Surprised, Molly dropped the book. But the pages were no longer blank. A paragraph read “Molly opened the box and was astonished to find a magical necklace and ring, each containing a blazing emerald just as the book had said. She put them on, touched the ring to the gem of the necklace and said the magic word written in the book – - .”

Molly opened the box, and sure enough, there was a necklace and a ring inside, resting on a red satin lining. Both featured a large green emerald. The ring looked too large, yet fit perfectly on her finger. She whispered “Magic?” Then Molly pulled the necklace over her head and touched the stone of the ring to that of the necklace.

“What was the magic word?” she frowned, “It wasn’t in the book!” Molly looked back to the open volume, and there it was in capital letters. She read it aloud: “ALAKAZAM!”

There was a brilliant flash as lightning erupted from the stones of Molly’s ring and necklace, followed by the deafening roar of thunder. She felt the magical electricity crackle throughout her body, not hurting her at all but rather filling her with power!

When the smoke cleared, Molly couldn’t believe her eyes. Her blue frock was gone, replaced by a green frock cinched by a belt with a lighning bolt on the buckle. She felt strong and confident in a way she never had before. “Jeepers – - what’s going on here?” she asked, reaching for the book to find some answers.

But it wasn’t on the table. A kindly old lady sat at the table on a stool that wasn’t there before, holding the book on her lap. “Tsk tsk,” said the grandmotherly-type, wagging a finger, “You can’t simply read about your life, Thunder Girl. You have to start living it.”

The old woman actually turned out to be Mother Nature herself, who had chosen Molly to be the champion of all things good in the ancient battle between Good and Evil. Mother Nature bestowed upon Molly the powers and abilities of all animals of the world. Though she sometimes drew upon other powers, Thunder Girl normally made use of the following: the flight of the eagle, the wisdom of the owl, the strength of an elephant, skin as hard as a diamond, and the eyes of a hawk.

Thunder Girl soon acquired an arch enemy in the form of Dr Hy Q Binana, a laboratory chimpanzee who gained a human genius intellect in an experiment conducted by Molly’s friend, Prof Eureka. Dr Binana referred to Thunder Girl as “the Big Green Cheesecake”. When Dr Binana used science to duplicate Thunder Girl’s powers in a villain he called Tornado Girl, it was revealed that “females are better able to store the cosmic energy” that gives them the powers of nature.

In the mid 1940s the evil Dr Binana opened a dimensional portal to Earth A, where it was 1964. Attempting to destroy both Earths with a super bomb on Earth A, he was thwarted when Thunder Girl leapt through the portal from her native Earth B to stop him triggering the device. Both Earths were saved and the portal was closed, trapping Thunder Girl and Dr. Binana on Earth A.

Making the best of it, Thunder Girl changed back to Molly, but the differences of the forces of nature between the two Earths was so great, that Molly got amnesia. Found by Ultiman (who was unaware of her dual identity) she was identified by her fingerprints as a missing person and returned to her parents.

On Earth A, Molly Wilson whad been a grown woman, an archaeologist who had disappeared while looking for the lost Fountain of Youth. Not only was this Molly not an orphan (having elderly parents), but she also had a younger sister named Eve. Everyone assumed that the younger, amnesiac Molly must have been the result of an encounter with the fountain of youth.

A freak electrical storm seemed to be terrorizing Molly, and Ultiman was astonished when a bolt of lightning got past him and struck her, transforming Molly into Thunder Girl and returning her memory. Unable to return to Earth B or to change back into Molly, Thunder Girl “disguised” herself by braiding her hair, adopting a phony pair of glasses and wearing ordinary clothes over her costume.

She went to high school, which caused problems since she had no knowlegde of anything that happened after WW II and had to learn to like the Beatles instead of Benny Goodman. A further complication was that while Eve was a fan of Thunder Girl, she quite rightly suspected “Molly” of not being her real sister.

Thunder Girl joined the Whiz Kids as a way to acclimate herself to the 1960s, and soon found a safe way to transform back to Molly. By 1980 she had joined the Round Table of America along with most of the original Whiz Kids. Molly was now middle aged, (Big Bang characters age in real time), but Thunder Girl was barely out of her teens, aging only during the time she actually spends on earth.

The older Molly gets, the harder it is for her to adjust to the age difference between her identities.