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Real Name: William Baker
Occupation: Ex-professional criminal turned adventurer and mercenary
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with criminal record
Identity: Current identity is secret
Place of Birth: Queens, New York
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: Mrs. Baker (mother)
Base of Operations: Brooklyn, New York; France
Past Group Affiliations: Frightful Four; current employee of Silver Fox
Known Powers:
Mineral Body: He can transform his body into sand-like particles under his direct control.
Topology: Amazing ability to reform his body at will:
- Hammers do Amazing damage
- Incredible Material cages
- "Phasing" through openings with Remarkable ease
- Elongate up to 2 areas
Armor Skin: Amazing protection against physical attacks
and Incredible protection against most energy attacks (see below).
Sandblast: Incredible Intensity attack with a range of 2 areas
Molecular Conversion: Amazing ability to transform sand into
his special form.
Healing: Up to half his damage per day
Weakness:
Heat- and flame-based attacks fuse his body into glass. Incredible Intensity winds tear his body into helpless particles. Water-based powers of Monstrous rank or water-based lifeforms absorb the Sandman into a mindless sludge.
Talents:
Petty criminal skills
Contacts:
The Thing and Silverfox's organization
Role-Playing Notes:
Sandman began his career as a basic blue-collar criminal who used his powers to rob rather than conquer. Even when he joined the Frightful Four, he retained this outlook. After his disasterous "partnership" with Hydro-Man, the Sandman decided to abandon the criminal life. He is now out to make amends for his past misdeeds by battling current criminals.
History:
William Baker was born and raised in a rough section of New York City. His father deserted him and his mother when he was three years old, leaving them impoverished. Baker learned to steal at an early age, and cheated and bluffed his way through public school. He excelled at football in high school but ruined his chances for a legitimate career when he accepted money from a local gambling ring to intentionally lose an important game. Baker was found out, thrown off the team, and expelled from school. He then found steady work as a henchman for a protection racket gang. At this point, Baker adopted the name "Flint Marko." Marko became successful in the New York City underworld, but entertained thoughts of reforming to marry his girlfriend, Marcy Conroy. Arrested for a series of crimes, Marko was convicted and spent several years in solitary confinement growing increasingly hostile. Upon release, Marko discovered that Conroy had left him for a member of his gang named Vic Rollins. After exacting brutal revenge on Rollins, Marko embarked on a one-man crime wave throughout New York City. Eventually he was captured and imprisoned in the maximum security ward of Rykers Island Prison, New York. After a short time, he escaped through an unguarded drainpipe, the knowledge of which he had purchased while in confinement. He attempted to travel south to start a new life. However, Marko was pursued by the FBI as well as state and local police departments. Narrowly evading the law numerous times, he made his way down the East Coast.
At one point, Marko found refuge in a military nuclear testing site near Savannah, Georgia. Marko was lying on a nearby beach when an experimental nuclear reactor's steam system exploded, bombarding him with a massive dose of radiation. After a short period of unconsciousness, Marko awoke to find that his body had weirdly taken on the properties of animated sand, and that he could transform himself into a sand-like form. Now able to elude the authorities with ease, the Sandman, as he now called himself, embarked on a career of criminal activity which brought him into conflict with Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and many other powerful crimefighters.
The Sandman teamed with the Wizard, the Trapster, and Medusa, who together became known as the Frightful Four. The Sandman served as a member of the Frightful Four over many years, during which he sometimes acted independently of the team as well.
The Sandman's criminal career recently came to an apparent end. To battle Spider-man, he had joined forces with a superpowered criminal named Hydro-Man who could transform his body into animated water. In a freak mishap, Sandman and Hydro-Man combined into a grotesque mud-like creature. The authorities subdued the mud creature with a special dessicating gas, which partially dehydrated the creature, rendering it harmless. The remaining mud was sent to the police's forensic laboratory in Manhattan. There, police scientists sought to analyze the composition of the unusual mud, but determined with the instruments at their disposal that it was completely inanimate. It was decided to seal it in a container and dispose of it. Apparently as a delayed effect of some of the analytic procedures, the mud spontaneously separated back into the two criminals, who then burst free of their container. Hydro-Man quickly departed to unknown destinations. Sandman was so traumatized and humiliated by the experience that he renounced his criminal ambitions.
The Sandman formed a friendship with his former enemy, the Thing, who encouraged him to pursue an honest life. Although still wanted by the police for past crimes, the Sandman has forsaken his criminal career. He lives quietly in Brooklyn, New York, under the alias Sylvester Mann. However, Sandman recently entered the service of Silver Fox, a European woman who operates a mercenary superhero service connected to the government of Symkaria.