Outsiders Week: Superhuman Studs

Prince Brion Marcov, youngest son of the tiny European monarchy known as Marcovia, enlisting the aid of scientist Dr. Helga Jace in giving him earth-based powers to protect his country from the forces of Baron Bedlam. Gaining super-strength, lava blasts, gravity manipulation abilities, he became known as Geo-Force. Joining the Outsiders formed by Earth-One's Batman, Geo-Force in his civilian identity became close friends with fellow Outsider Black Lightning and a college student.

Sandy Hawkins was the orphaned nephew of debutante Dian Belmont, who had been the girlfriend of Wesley Dodds. When she perished on and occasion when she substituted for Dodds' Sandman alter ego, Wesley took to wearing a costume designed by her prior to her death. He also sought out Sandy as atonement for her passing, adopting the lad and grooming him as his sidekick Sandy the Golden Boy. Alongside his mentor during his solo missions, as well as Sandman's Justice Society cases and a few adventures in the All-Star Squadron, Sandy built up a promising heroic career for himself.

This crimefighting career was eventually shattered when he was mutated by a silicon gun into becoming a new being known as the Silicoid Creature. Manifesting a separate personality, this thing was the counterpart of Metamopho. After decades as this creature in a sleeping state enducd by Sandman, Sandy was transformed by to a humanoid by his mentor, just like he had been yet manifesting earthquake generating abilities.

A few powers that Sandy did not manifest, which Geo-Force possessed, was emitting energy and anti-gravitational flight. This ability was harnessed by Rex Mason’s Earth-Two counterpart Joe Morgan, when an alien evil-globe originating from the universe of Earth-One merged with the ex-trainer. With his temporary powers, Morgan attempted to exact revenge against his former protégées Ted “Wildcat” Grant, Al “Atom” Pratt, and Jim “Guardian” Harper… as well as the globe’s mortal enemy Alan “Green Lantern” Jordan.

When Morgan fought back against the evil-globe, he lost his life just as a second irradiation from the Orb of Ra finally stripped Mason of his humanity forevermore. However, Sandy’s mutated form assumed the mantle of the metamorphic man-monster that corresponded to Mason’s Metamorpho.