 He is the alter-ego of Dickie Dauntless.and transformed into superhuman form by saying the word "Marvelman" (later, for legal reasons,"Miracleman").The character was later adapted by Alan Moore for his updating of "Marvelman" in "Warrior" in 1982, appearing at first in flashbacks and a one-shot story in the Eclipse Comics run of Miracleman in issue #6, until returning to the present day in "The Silver Age" storyline.