History
Professor Sturdy was an assistant to Baron Heinrich Zemo, where he helped design the machine that eventually transformed Simon Williams into Wonder Man. The Count returned to his home in New York where he found his employees complaining about how the battle with the X-Men cost Nefaria his fortune and they were no longer being paid. They asked about their back-pay and Nefaria explained that when Project N was completed, he would enjoy dismissing them. Professor Sturdy spoke up, exclaiming that he was worth the money he was owed, as he was the first assistant to Baron Zemo.
Nefaria quickly interrupted Sturdy's speech by arguing that Zemo's machine might have transformed Simon Williams into Wonder Man successfully, but it failed to transform Erik Josten into Power Man as easily, leaving Josten a 'pale imitator'. When Nefaria's Lethal Legion arrived, Professor Sturdy used the Project N machine to increase their powers.[2]
Sturdy's effects were only temporarily as the real purpose of Project N was to allow Count Nefaria to absorb the powers of the Lethal Legion into himself. As the battle between Nefaria and the Avengers was going on, Professor Sturdy crawled his way from the wreckage of the now-destroyed Project N, mumbling about how Nefaria was a fool.[3]
Sturdy stole Count Nefaria's Rolls-Royce and drove it through a police barricade to Avengers Mansion, where he confronted Count Nefaria and explained that there was a side effect of his power augmentation: Nefaria was aging at an incredible speed. He then explained that only he would have been able to halt the aging process and then died of an apparent heart attack.[4]Attributes
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Notes
- Professor Sturdy, along with Drs. Rachelson and Stancheck, was created as part of Project N’s staff by Jim Shooter and John Byrne and fully seen and named in Avengers #164. Their presence during the events of X-Men #94 was revealed in the Official Index to the Marvel Universe: Uncanny X-Men, implying they were the same people as a trio of scientists shown mutating the original Ani-Men in a flashback.
- That group of scientists, it should be noted, was not named and were vaguely depicted, and no reference to this procedure nor involvement by Rachelson, Stancheck, and Sturdy was mentioned in the pages of Avengers #164. That they are the same people is thus a retcon imposed by an editorial decision entirely based on a pair of super-power bestowing projects funded by Count Nefaria.
See Also
- 4 appearance(s) of Kenneth Sturdy (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) of Kenneth Sturdy (Earth-616)
- 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Kenneth Sturdy (Earth-616)
- 2 image(s) of Kenneth Sturdy (Earth-616)