"SPEED DEMON"
Real Name: ?? Simms
Identity/Class: Human mutate (1930s to pre-modern era)
Occupation: Speeder; formerly unrevealed
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Chip
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: "Speedy" Simms
Base of Operations: The space ring of a little
planet similar in shape to Saturn;
decades before, an unrevealed town in USA
First Appearance: Journey into Mystery I#79/4 (April, 1962)
Powers/Abilities: "Speedy"
Simms' physiology was mutated in order to fulfill his wish to race
forever. He could drive at full speed without sleeping or eating, for
decades, surviving in an alien environment where temperature,
atmosphere and light were different from Earth.
He also used a car that raced for years without need
of gasoline or mechanic repairs.
History:
(Journey into Mystery I#79/4 (fb)) - In the thirties Simms was about forty years. He loved
the nickname "Speedy" because he liked to race at high speed with his
car, always, everywhere. He didn't care that he put the people
(and the animals) in the town in danger.
Boys that played in the street learned to recognize
his car and to run away from him. Cops never caught him speeding but
knew about his bad behavior and warned him.
His greatest desire was to find a place where he could speed all the time, a road with nothing on it, and it would be fulfilled.
That afternoon, to make a red light,
Simms almost killed Chip, a boy, running very close to him and Chip had
to dodge the car not to be crushed.
That very evening Chip saw the first star of the evening and, knowing
what was the strongest wish of "Speedy" made a wish, to make Simms'
wish come true!
(Journey into Mystery I#79/4) - Decades after, "Speedy" Simms still drove his car at high
speed. The same car that almost hit Chip. Simms drove on a wide flat
street, a large stretch, with no obstacles, with nothing other than the
street. He raced always, and had been racing for decades, without stop,
without rest, on the same running circuit: a ring, an orbital ring of a
planet in outer space! After so many years, Simms' hair was hoary, he was
old and finally asked himself where that stretch would end and when he
would stop.
On Earth, Chip sometimes wondered what happened to
Simms after that evening wish.
Profile by Spidermay.
CLARIFICATIONS:
"Speedy" Simms has no known
connections to:
Chip has no known connections to
Chip seemed a normal human. When he was a child he had the power to reshape reality for a single time. The power did not emerge again.
Chip played ball in the street with his
friends, but they never were light-hearted because of "Speedy" Simms.
Chip and his friends recognized his car. He was dangerous, racing through
town and scared people running alongside them; many of them hated
"Speedy" Simms. Chip knew that Simms had a strong desire to drive without
obstacles.
On an evening shortly after he
had almost been hit by Simms's car, Chip saw the first star of the
evening and the boy wished to fulfill Simms' wish.
The wish was fulfilled in an odd way.
Simms and his car were transported on to the orbital ring of a planet, condemned to drive on the ring forever.
Years later, when Chip was a mature man, he sometimes looked at the first star of the evening and asked himself what had happened to Simms, and wondered whether his wish had been fulfilled in any way. Simms still drove his car.
--Journey into Mystery I#79/4
images: (without ads)
Journey into Mystery I#79/4, p1, pan1 (Simms in his car on the orbital ring)
Journey into Mystery I#79/4, p3, pan2 (young "Speedy" Simms, head shot)
Journey into Mystery I#79/4, p6, pan2 (old "Speedy" Simms,
head shot)
Journey into Mystery I#79/4, p3, pan5 (Chip dodging the car)
Journey into Mystery I#79/4, p2, pan3 (adult Chip, head shot)
Appearances:
Journey into Mystery I#79/4 (April, 1962) - Stan Lee (writer/editor), Steve Ditko (art)
Last updated: 04/23/16
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