Created and written by: Eric N. Bennett
Art by: Joe Davis

PERSONAL INFORMATION

REAL NAME: Sam Johnson
KNOWN ALIASES: None
IDENTITY: Secret
OCCUPATION: Bank robber, professional criminal, would-be crime lord
PLACE OF BIRTH: Mount Union, Pennsylvania
CITIZENSHIP: United States citizen with a criminal record
MARITAL STATUS: Divorced
KNOWN RELATIVES: Jane (Ex-Wife), Amy (Daughter)
KNOWN ALLIES: Firebomb, Garrote, Titanic, Thundervolt
MAJOR ADVERSARIES: Steel Wolf, New Alliance, Taranis, First Guard
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Crime Phalanx
USUAL BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile
EXTENT OF EDUCATION: Masters Degree in Engineering from M.I.T.
FIRST APPEARANCE: First Guard #1 (November, 2025)
HEIGHT: 5’11”
WEIGHT: 175 lbs.
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Brown
OTHER DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: None

HISTORY

A genius with a fascination for time travel, Sam Johnson was present during a pitched battle with the villain known as The Chronarch.

During the conflict, one of the Chronarch’s temporal devices was knocked free of his grasp and sent flying into a nearby alley. Johnson witnessed this and surreptitiously made his way to where the device rested, secreting it away before the authorities had the opportunity to recover it. Johnson immediately took it back to his home lab where he spent the next several weeks learning how to make it function.

Now in possession of the very thing he had spent so much of his life seeking to create, Johnson’s baser nature overcame his intellect and he decided to use the device for personal gain rather than reverse-engineer it. Donning a suit designed to protect him from any potential side-effects from the device as well as to conceal his identity, Johnson divorced his wife and undertook a life of crime under the name of Doc Chronos, Master of Time.

POWERS/ABILITIES

Doc Chronos possesses no innate superhuman abilities, gaining all his powers from the time manipulation device he wears on his belt.

WEAPONS/PARAPHERNALIA

Doc Chronos makes use of a palm-sized device capable of manipulating the timestream within a localized area.

While the device may be capable of far greater as-yet unknown feats, Doc Chronos has mastered the ability to increase or decrease the flow of time within a radius of approximately 1,000 feet from his location. He can cause others to progress or regress along their own personal timeline, causing them to grow old or return to childhood as he wishes. He can also freeze time for short periods of approximately 5 minutes at a time before temporal inertia forces the local timestream to resume its normal flow.

By placing his hand on a surface such as the door of a vault he can cause the materials to age and disintegrate or erode. In this manner there are very few barriers capable of stopping him if he so chooses to pass.

Doc Chronos continues to examine and explore the possible functions and applications of his time device. It is possible it is capable of far more than he has currently discovered, and that with time he will prove to be an even greater threat.