Abraham Klein (Earth-616)

Abe Klein
Name	Abraham Klein
Current Alias	Abe Klein
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Stark Industries
Relatives	Rachel (wife); Sarah (daughter)
Marital Status	Married
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Grey-haired, Balding
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	Polish
Occupation	Scientist
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Len Wein, Herb Trimpe, Marie Severin
First	Iron Man #82 (October, 1975)
First	Iron Man #82 (October, 1975)
Death	Iron Man #108 (December, 1977)
Death	Iron Man #108 (December, 1977)

History

Abraham Klein was a professor of electrical engineering who among others taught Tony Stark. Tony Stark credited Abraham with instilling enthusiasm for electrical engineering in him. When Abraham was fired due to his advanced age, Abraham came to work for Stark at Stark International. Abraham was quite brilliant and an accomplished scientist. After Blizzard had destroyed most of Stark International's main plant, he completely redesigned its electrical systems.

Abraham helped Iron Man seal the Controller in plastic after initial doubts, but when Iron Man explained the Controller's crimes, Abraham participated willingly, as they reminded Abraham of his father who had died in a Nazi concentration camp. Abraham investigated into a supposedly stolen patent for a rocket pack that Tony had designed, but a competitor comppany already held a patent. Abraham was kidnapped along with Tony's secretary Krissy Longfellow by Commander Kraken.

Mordecai Midas blackmailed Abraham to betray Stark, suggesting that Abraham knew the whereabouts of Klein's wife and daughter, whom he had not seen since 1939, when the Nazis invaded Poland and took Abraham to a camp. Midas ordered Abraham to look for a job at Stark's. Abraham intended to help Midas in his attempt to take over Stark International, because Abraham had faith in Anthony Stark: Abraham believed that Stark would stop Midas and then force Midas to reveal the information.

However, Tony and his bodyguard Iron Man (secretly Tony himself) failed to stop Midas. Once Midas had ensured his victory, he revealed Klein that Midas never had more information on Klein's family but the photographs.

Later, when Iron Man struck back at Midas, Abraham, who had no super human powers or equipment, physically attacked Midas with a bar. Midas punched Abraham with super human strength due to his exo-skeleton. Abraham was fatally hurt and he died soon afterward, but Abraham lived long enough to see Midas defeated and to beg for forgiveness with his last breath.

Attributes

Abilities

An accomplished scientist and engineer, he developed some of Midas' super-human equipment. He's confirmed as the developer of Midas' "golden touch", which allowed Midas to turn people he touched with his hands in gold, this development was far from perfect: Iron Man sealed his armor to avoid suffering ill effects, and Jack of Hearts' exotic powers allowed him to reverse the effect.

Notes

• Klein is probably of Jewish heritage. He has mentioned that his father was killed in the World War II Holocaust, and he spent his youth in a concentration camp. (This may have been ret-conned in later Marvel canon.)

See Also

• 15 appearance(s) of Abraham Klein (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) of Abraham Klein (Earth-616)
• 2 image(s) of Abraham Klein (Earth-616)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Abraham Klein (Earth-616)