The Shape

Real Name: The Shape

Identity/Class: Artificial lifeform

Occupation: Superhero

Affiliations: Professor Scuba S. Duba (creator), Kevin Boyd (accidental co-creator)

Enemies: Karl Minten, Vic Facsh (enemy spies)

Known Relatives: None - but calls the Professor "Unca" Scuba.

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unknown

First Appearance: Charlton Premiere Vol.2, #1, story “It’s the Shape”  (Charlton Comics, September 1967)

Powers/Abilities: The Shape's elastic body can mold itself into any form it can conceive, allowing it to alter part of itself into weapons or tools, or even take on the forms of animals, including mythical ones (e.g. a flying horse)

History: Professor Scuba S. Duba is performing experiments to create an artificial life-form. He moulds a statue out of special chemicals, then exposes it to "super-hypertensity white aura-light ultra-ebonized light". But he can't get the balance right, until his clumsy nephew Kevin bumps into the light machine, accidentally setting it off and activating the creature. Naming itself the Shape, the creature proceeds to capture enemy spies.

Comments: Written and drawn by Richard Green. The character only made one appearance.

The Shape, newly-born, has only a basic grasp of English.

CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with

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