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Real Name: Leonard Samson
Occupation: Psychiatrist, teacher, former special consultant to Gamma-Base, New Mexico
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Although not an official member, Samson has worked as a consultant to SHIELD.
Known Powers:
Body Armor: Samson’s gamma-irradiated skin provides Incredible protection against physical and energy attacks. He has no particular resistance to heat and cold.
Leaping: Doc Samson has Shift-Z leaping power, such that he can leap 33 floors (500’) straight up and 4 areas across.
Talents:
Samson is a doctor of psychiatry and a self-educated expert on the Hulk and gamma radiation, and has Martial Arts A, B, and C, and the Medicine talent as well.
Contacts:
None
Role-Playing Notes:
Originally, Samson brought his psychoanalytic talents to the field, preferring to reach agreements with foes rather than beat their heads into the dirt. After his recent adventures he has grown more businesslike in combat. He is obsessed with recapturing the newest, grey-skinned Hulk, as he feels responsible for freeing it upon the world.
History:
Psychiatrist Dr. Leonard Samson came to General T. E. “Thunderbolt” Ross with a plan to cure Ross’s daughter Betty, who had been transformed into a crystalline form through a blood transfusion with the Sandman. Samson had technicians devise a cathexis ray projector that would drain off gamma ray particle energy and psionic energy from Bruce Banner as he transformed into the monstrous Hulk whom General Ross had long hunted. Samson theorized that as a result of this process, Banner would be cured of the physiological instability that continually transformed him into the Hulk. Hoping to save Betty and to be cured himself, Banner willingly participated in the experiment. The cathexis ray succeeded in turning Betty Ross back to normal, employing Banner’s psionic energy.
However, most of the psionic energy drained from Banner as well as a considerable amount of his excess gamma radiation remained within the cathexis ray projector. Motivated by scientific curiosity, and probably by a desire to gain superhuan powers for himself, Samson irradiated himself with the energies remaining within the projector. The result was that the slight, brown-haired psychiatrist was transformed into a massively muscled, green-haired superhuman with gamma-boosted strength. Banner himself seemed permanently cured, but he emotionally broke under the strain of seeing Betty, the woman he loved, being romanced by Samson, and exposed himself to gamma radiation, thereby undoing the cure.
Samson later lost his superhuman physique and power when he took a blast of concentrated gamma radiation intended for the Hulk. However, months later Samson regained his gamma-mutated form and superhuman strength when he was bombarded by intensive radiation from an exploding gam matron, an experimental gamma-ray generator. He has remained in this form ever since. Doc Samson, as he has been nick-named, has long sought to capture and permanently cure the Hulk. Samson worked as a university teacher during the recent time that the Hulk was traveling through different dimensions, unable to return to Earth. But Samson returned to his pursuit of the Hulk once the monster reappeared on Earth.
Samson eventually caught up to the Hulk and was able to separate the two personas, restoring Banner to normality. Against SHIELD’s wishes, Samson freed the Bannerless Hulk, only to discover it was a mind less creature that acted out of pure rage.
Feeling responsible for the destruction this new Hulk was causing, Samson tried to recapture it. He came into conflict with both Avenger teams and the new Hulkbusters. Banner and the Hulk were eventually forced to recombine and Samson’s machine was destroyed. Samson worked with SHIELD in attempting to recapture the new, grey-skinned Hulk, but only resulted in the destruction of Gamma Base, partially at his own hands. His present situation is uncertain.