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| In 1968 the U.S government’s Captain Atom Project conducted an experiment to test a virtually indestructible alloy found by the Air Force on an unidentified flying object. Air Force Captain Nathaniel Adam was encapsulated within the alien alloy and exposed to the detonation of a nuclear bomb. Adam was apparently blasted to atoms. |
| The next year the government tried again with it’s Major Force Project. This time the test subject Sgt. Clifford Zmeck, a certified psychopath, court-marshalled by the Air Force. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of the mother of Lieutenant Martin Allard and hoped to earn a pardon by participating in the project. Zmeck was shielded by double the amount of alien alloy that had been used in the on Captain Adam. A hydrogen bomb was detonated beneath Zmeck, and he too was apparently reduced to atoms. |
| In truth the force of the explosion had catapulted him into the quantum field and shot him decades forward in time. Zmeck re-entered the time stream and found that the alien metal was now fused to his body, giving him superhuman powers. General Wade Eiling (head of Project Atom) recruited Zmeck as a new operative. Zmeck was spirited to an Air Force base where scientists implanted remote-control devices under his skin that could keep in line by releasing a nerve gas or exploding on command. Technicians laser-etched his alloy coating into a "costume," and he was given the code name Major Force. |
