ANDREW MORRIS
Real Name: Andrew Morris
Identity/Class: Normal human (1950s Era)
Occupation: Inventor
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Henry Bensinger, Maud Bensinger
Enemies: Unidentified thief, unidentified extraterrestrial
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None (see comments)
Base of Operations: USA (?), Earth
First Appearance: Adventure Into Mystery#7/2 (May, 1957)
Powers/Abilities: Andrew Morris was a scientific genius and inventor, although he lacked confidence in himself. He developed the "Window Machine".
History:
(Adventure Into Mystery#7/2 (fb) - BTS) - Andrew Morris developed an unusual machine that operated as an interactive window through which he could observe various locations by means of adjusting dials.
(Adventure Into Mystery#7/2) - Observing the world through his strange device, Morris' first interaction with what he saw was stretching out his hand, saving Henry and Maud Bensinger from their out-of-control car crashing off a bridge. He next tripped up a thief thousands of miles away, and elsewhere saved a baby from a high-rise ledge. He next scanned straight up, seeing the moon up close, only to be caught up in a vacuum as the air was sucked out around him. He saved himself by adjusting the dials only to stumble across an alien world, where he viewed a humanoid being turn and notice him. The interactive nature of the portal allowed the alien to shoot energy bolts from his hand at Morris, but the inventor quickly smashed the machine apart. He was nevertheless determined to rebuild it with the aid of some of the world's greatest thinkers.
Comments: Created by uncredited writer and Marvin Stein.
The story was titled "The Watcher!", but I wouldn't classify this as an alias.
Curiously, the distance between the portal and the item observed seemed to influence the size of his limbs: his giant hand comfortably held the Bensinger's car, while his "normal-sized" fingers gently held the baby by the diapers.
Andrew Morris isn't the only one to create "Window Machines" -- Zeelmo [a Golden Age Red Raven foe] has his "Gazegrapho Machine" which depicts troublesome scenes everywhere and the Kalahians [who are associated with the Golden Age Thin Man] have their "Electronic Television" which can view events on Mars or any city on Earth.
---John Holstein.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
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Andrew Morris has no known connections to:
Andrew Morris' "Window Machine" provided an interactive portal through which he could observe various locations by means of adjusting dials. He used the over-sized washing-machine styled device to perform small good deeds on Earth, but the portal also went the other way across vast distances, allowing those being observed to affect Andrew Morris. The device was destroyed when Morris recognized the dangers it posed and vowed to work collaboratively on any such future machine.
--Adventure Into Mystery#7/2
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Adventure Into Mystery#7/2, p2, pan5 (at machine)
Other Appearances: None
Last updated: 09/04/09
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