She was the young and beautiful blond-haired wife of scientist Paul Hartwick.

Paul was trying to accelerate the life-cycle of mice, but Phyllis objected because she feared he was meddling with life itself. When Paul finally succeeded by bathing the mice in the radiation of a cyclotron, he won great fame, but Phyllis thought he had made a horrible mistake.

Months later, Phyllis gave birth to their first child--a son. She was alarmed when their newborn baby was rapidly maturing, and two weeks later, she wept when they went to the crib and found their child dead from old age.

Phyllis and Paul were apparently suffering from the same accelerated aging as their child--as her elderly and wrinkled husband consoled her, the gray-haired Phyllis reprimanded him for his meddling with life.


--Marvel Tales I#128/3

The infant son (name unrevealed) of scientist Dr. Paul Hartwick and his wife Phyllis, he was born months after Paul had a mishap with a cyclotron.

The radiation from the device apparently caused the newborn child to rapidly mature and age--within a week, he was able to walk and talk.

The child's accelerated aging continued, and days later, he was a middle-aged man who smoked a pipe while he read in his crib.

When the "baby" was just two weeks old, his parents went to his crib and found him dead from old age.

--Marvel Tales I#128/3

He was one of Dr. Paul Hartwick's co-workers at the Trescott Preventive Medicine Foundation. He angrily confronted Hartwick over his foolish experiments to accelerate the life-cycle of mice--he thought that Hartwick was wasting the institution's money, and warned Hartwick that he was tampering with sources that mankind was not meant to understand.

One day, he heard an explosion in Hartwick's lab; he came running in to learn that Hartwick had exposed the mice to the radiation of a cyclotron, and that the nuclear device had exploded. He was amazed to see that Hartwick finally succeeded in speeding up the life-cycle of the mice with the cyclotron's radiation.

--Marvel Tales I#128/3

The numerous test subjects for Dr. Hartwick's experiments, their average life span was two years. Hartwick was attempting to discover a serum to speed up their life-cycle so that scientists could see the results of their experiments with the rodents that much quicker.

But Hartwick's experiments were always failures, and his various serums only poisoned the mice to death.

One day, Hartwick got the idea of exposing some very young mice to the radiation of a cyclotron; although the nuclear device exploded while he was operating it, Hartwick's experiment finally succeeded, for the radiation caused the mice to become old and feeble--he found that he had accelerated the life-cycle of the rodents from two years to less than one day.

--Marvel Tales I#128/3

A nuclear device at the Trescott Preventive Medicine Foundation, it was used by Dr. Paul Hartwick in an attempt to accelerate the life-cycle of mice.

Hartwick placed the mice under the cyclotron, activated it, and the rodents were bathed in radiation; but Hartwick was inexperienced with the operation of the device, and the cyclotron exploded.

Hartwick received minor burns in the mishap, but he was elated to find that the radiation of the cyclotron had caused the once young mice to become old and feeble.

Although Hartwick was initially pleased that his experiment had succeeded, he would later learn of the horrifying consequences of his own exposure to the radiation.

--Marvel Tales I#128/3