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| Frederic Beechman | |
| Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
| Notability: | Minor character |
| Type: | Scientist |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| Relatives: | Emily Beechman (wife); Jerome Beechman (son) |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | Daredevil, Vol. 1 #110 |
Frederic Beechman is a fictional scientist and a comic book character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He made a single appearance in flashback in Daredevil, Volume 1 #110.
Biography[]
Frederic Beechman was a scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project during the 1940s. One evening in 1944, an electrical fire caused an explosion of a small nuclear stockpile buried beneath the facility. The blast wasn't strong enough to be lethal, but both Beechman and a cleaning woman named Gemma Sinclair were exposed to low levels of atomic radiation.
The radiation from Jerome's father had a mutagenic effect on him. He was born with dark brown skin, in contrast to his father's caucasian features, and tufts of hair all over his body. As he grew older, he continued to mutate, taking on the characteristics of a primate. As such, Jerome was often the subject of jeers and taunts from other boys his age. When he turned ten, his father could no longer deal with having a mutant son and he abandoned him.
Jerome handled the rejection as any child might, with seething rage. He swore that he would hunt down and kill his father, and journeyed out into the deserts seeking him out. It is unknown whether or not Jerome ever succeeded in meting out his revenge against him.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Frederic Beechman was created by writer Steve Gerber and artists Gene Colan and Frank Chiaramonte.