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Real name: Jack Hart Occupation: Adventurer Identity: Publicly Known Height: 5' 11" Eyes: Blue (right), White (left) Weight: 175 lbs. Hair: Brown Unusual Features: The left half of Jack of Hearts' body has turned purpish black from direct exposure to Zero Fluid. Jack of Hearts' left eye has an opaque white membrane coveriing the entire pupil Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record Former Aliases: None Place of birth: New Haven, Connecticut Marital status: Single Known relatives: Philip (Father, deceased), Marie (Mother) Group affiliation: Star Masters Base of opperations: Unknown, somewhere in outerspace First appearance: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #22 Origin: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #22, Jack of Hearts Limited Series #2 Most recent appearance:

History: Jack Hart was the son of Philip Hart, a brillant scientist who developed a revolutionary, extremely efficient liquid fuel called "Zero Fluid",.and a humanoid alien woman of the Contraxian race. The alien was one of many scientists dispached to try to discover an energy source to resuscitate the dwindling nuclear processes of the Contraxian sun. Learning of Philip Hart's experiments,the alien assumed a totally human form to keep Hart under surveillance. Hart and the alien eventually met, married, and by as yet unknown means, produced a son they named Jack. The alien woman, "Marie" died in a car accident when the boy was a child, and neither her husband or child ever learned of her extraterrestrial origin. (Apparently an autopsy was not performed on her body.) When the boy was teen-aged, Philip Hart perfected his "Zero Fluid" and decided to donate the fuel to all the free countries of the world. Hart was then contacted by agents of the criminal Corporation who wanted to market the Zero Fluid. Refusing to deal with them, Philip Hart was murdered by Corporation agents before the eyes of his son.

Managing to escape, Jack Hart took refuge in his father's basement laboratory. Corporation agents broke in minutes later, and their laser-cannon sheared through the laboratory door, striking the vat of Zero Fluid. Doused by the powerful, corrosive fuel, Hart underwent a mutagenic change and began to glow. With an uncontrollable burst of energy generated by his entire body, Hart killed his father's murderers. Vowing vengence on the entire Corporation, Hart fashioned a costume for himself, plundering his father's collection of armament. Somehow the armor interacted with the final stage of mutation and provided a moderator that contained and controled the release of his body's energy.

Calling himself Jack of Hearts as a tribute to hisfather's passion for playing cards, he embarked on a mission of vengence. Initially his quest for vengence on the Corporation was blind and intolerant, leading him into conflict with such innocents as the Sons of the Tiger and the Hulk. Later he aided Iron Man in freeing Stark International from takeover by Mordecai Midas, and was taken under Iron Man's tutelage for a brief time. When his energy powers began to increase uncontrollably, he placed himself into SHIELD custody. There he met a former classmate of his, Marcy Kane, who was also actually a Contraxian. She revealed to him his mother's extraterrestial origin and convinced him to accompany her back to Contraxia to try to save their sun. On Contraxia a cult calling themselves the Survivalists captured Jack of Hearts to force him to do what he was intending to do anyway. He was flown in a starship to Contraxia's sun and there vaporized the craft before sending the energies of his body into the sun. In some as yet unknown manner, he apparently resored the vast quantities of hydrogen necessary to sustain the nuclear reactions of the sun, and added an undisclosed number of years to the sun's life. Then, still radiating great energy, he returned to Contraxia, his vast heat melting the polar icecaps, in order to say farewell to his girlfriend and to lecture the Contraxians on morality. He then flew off into outerspace, realizing that he could no longer live among organic beings wiith his vast energies still emanating out of control.

His current where abouts are unknown.

Strength level: Unknown, presumably superhuman.

Powers: Jack of Hearts posses the ability to project concussive energy from his body. This energy, a by-product of the cellular mutation caused by contact with the experimental Zero Fluid, is generated in some as yet unknown way by the cells of Jack's body and can be directed in controlled amounts by conscious thought.. Zero energy, as it has been called, is constantly being generated by his body and is emitted in negligible quantities whenever his cells reach their saturation point. Consciously directing the flow of energy (usually through his hands), Jack of Hearts can create a shockwave, the current maximum force of which is unknown. The energy discharge is accompanied by a pink colored light phenomenon.

Jack of Hearts can direct the blasts of his Zero energy downward to generate sufficient thrust to allow him to fly, much like a liquid-fuel rocket. Because of the fact he must keep his arms pointed beneath him during flight he can not use his energy as an offensive weapon, unless his opponent is directly in the path of his "exhaust."

Jack of Hearts was exposed to a Stark International supplied Scanalyzer which was powered by a Symbiote-Energy Sump device, that derived low-level energy from sources within his body. A favorable mutagenic alteration allowed Jack of Hearts encephalic patterns to be overlayed with the artificial intelligence of the Scanalyzer. This enhanced Jack of Hearts' consciousness enabling him to think at cmputer speeds and retain and retrieve information with computer logic plus the human brain's large storage base.

Jack of Hearts entire metabolism has been transformed by the Zero Fluid's mutagenic effect on him. Not only does he require less oxygen, but he is physically stronger and more resistant to injury. Jack of Hearts can easily withstand small-caliber firearms. Further, if he is injured, his rate of healing is over twice that of an average healthy human's.

Now that Jack of Hearts' powers have increased exponentially, it is difficult to gauge what his current abilities and overall power level is.

Weapons: Jack of Hearts wears a suit of tough, boron-whisker-impregnated, steel-alloy cloth, articulated body armor that covers all of his body except his face and hands. This suit of armor has somehow become absorbed by the mutagenic effects of the Zero Fluid vapors and incorporated by Jack of Heart's body.