BOOKWORM
Real Name: Nelson Gruber
First Appearance: Sleepwalker (Vol. 1) #4, September 1991
Powers: Nelson Gruber was originally a baseline human with no superhuman powers working as a laboratory assistant at Metropolitan University. He received his powers after conducting a sleep study on Rick Sheridan, the human host for the extra-dimensional vigilante known as Sleepwalker. During the study, he electronically recreated the synaptic patterns produced by Rick Sheridan's brain waves from when he and Sleepwalker were bonded and then amplified them. When his computer overloaded as a result, Gruber absorbed the energies of the Mindscape (Sleepwalker’s home dimension) that those patterns represented.
As Bookworm, he could summon those energies from the Mindscape and shape it into constructs that manifested as anything he read from the printed page. The speed at which he summoned multiple constructs in a row indicated that Bookworm was not actually reading each book he utilized for his powers, but merely focusing on the concepts the book represented. Although he chiefly used books to focus his power, it's likely anything that stimulated his imagination could potentially summon the energies necessary for his constructs. The constructs he formed were animated and even lifelike in their activities: Projections of King Arthur or Amazon warriors acted as Bookworm imagined they would, even after he left the immediate area and they operated without his direction. He could direct the actions of his constructs as well, commanding them to attack a particular opponent.
As Bookworm, he could summon those energies from the Mindscape and shape it into constructs that manifested as anything he read from the printed page. The speed at which he summoned multiple constructs in a row indicated that Bookworm was not actually reading each book he utilized for his powers, but merely focusing on the concepts the book represented. Although he chiefly used books to focus his power, it's likely anything that stimulated his imagination could potentially summon the energies necessary for his constructs. The constructs he formed were animated and even lifelike in their activities: Projections of King Arthur or Amazon warriors acted as Bookworm imagined they would, even after he left the immediate area and they operated without his direction. He could direct the actions of his constructs as well, commanding them to attack a particular opponent.
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