Professor Walter Haley and "Tick-Tock" Rex Tyler were adept at conceiving chemical concocations in their costumed careers. While Tyler was a leading chemist at Bannermain Chemicals when he invented the Miraclo pill, Haley was a retired skin diver and oceanographer.
Using his discovery, Tyler adopted the alias of Hourman, shortly after this he would found the Minute-Men of America on Earth-Two. Decades later, Haley would be a co-founder of the Challengers of the Unknown on Earth-One. Tyler refined Miraclo to be activated by black light, while Haley devised an antedote for his foe Multi-Man's liquid light.
Early in his career, Haley like Tyler gained superhuman strength and physique on more than one occasion. In the first instance, this was due to he and his teammates being in an alien atmosphere.
Soon after, an alien hero journeyed to Earth-One to aid Prof and the Challengers in defeating invading giant extraterrestrials. During this adventure, Prof was injured and then treated in the alien hero's chemical-based healing chamber. After this, he once more gained his superhuman might, although again this was temporary.
Just as Rex Tyler felt anxiety and withdrawl symptoms from overuse of Miraclo, until he found a non-addictive derivation of the pill, so to did Prof have his own inner torment from time to time. In on instance later in the Challengers' history, an evil virus spawned from a computer infected Haley's mind, causing him to temporarily go mad. While not possessing immense strength, he became uninhibited around others. He would eventually be cured of this condition.
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