NATHANIEL RICHARDS
Real Name: Nathaniel Richards
First Appearance: Fantastic Four (Vol. 1) #272, November 1984
Powers: No superhuman powers. Nathaniel Richards is a wealthy physicist renowned for his many inventions and breakthroughs. Together with industrialist Howard Stark, they built the Vanguard flagship for the V Battalion convert agency using reverse-engineered alien technology.
An intellect of extraordinary genius, Nathaniel's scientific prowess has helped him devise several time-traveling and dimension-crossing technologies which he utilizes regularly. He wears mechanical devices on his person that allow him a wide range of enhanced abilities, including superhuman strength and durability, power blasts, magnetic boot clamps, and servo-generators enabling him to fly. Nathaniel uses transmat receptors that allow him instantaneous teleportation and he uses enlargement rays when needed.
