The Twister is a

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, a

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who first appeared in ''Blue Bolt Comics'' from Novelty Press.

Publication history

Created by Paul Gustavson, The Twister appeared in short stories in issues #1 to #7 of ''

Blue Bolt Blue Bolt is a fictional American comic book superhero created by writer-artist Joe Simon in 1940, during the period fans and historians refer to as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Publication history Initially published by Novelty Press, ''Blu ...

Comics'', volume two (June to December, 1941). After that, he wasn't seen again for decades. In 2009, he appeared in the Dynamite Entertainment miniseries ''

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'', which is part of the ''

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'' line of comics; he then appeared in '' Project Superpowers: Chapter Two'' as an ally of the heroes.

Fictional biography

Novelty Press

Bob Sanders is a direct descendant of

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, and thus inherited the curse of the wind god

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to retrieve the "bad winds" Odysseus had accidentally released. When Bob was 14, a

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descended on his home town of Windy Gap and killed his parents, but Bob himself was lifted into the sky and brought back to earth unharmed. He wasn't unchanged, however; he now had the power to harness the wind and generate and control whirlwinds, and he had super-strength. Donning a costume and calling himself The Twister, he used his new abilities to combat evil. He also armed himself with a "Cyclone Gun," which shot powerful blasts of air.

Dynamite Entertainment

At some point after

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, The Twister was captured and imprisoned in the mystical Urn of Pandora, along with scores of other heroes, by the misguided Fighting Yank. Decades later, the Urn was broken and the heroes freed; Twister emerged with a new costume, whose constantly shifting appearance makes him look like a man-shaped

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, but his powers seem to be unchanged. What part he will play in the modern world remains to be seen.

References

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