Hourman
Real name: Rex Tyler
Full name: Rex Tyler
Aliases: Man Of The Hour
Creator: DC Comics
Alignment: Good
First appearance: Adventure Comics #48 (March 1940)
Place of birth: New York
Occupation: Chemist, Superhero
Base: New York City.
Teams: Justice Society of America, Justice League, Justice Legion Alpha
Relatives: Wendi Harris Tyler (wife), Rick Tyler (son, aka Hourman II).
Gender: Male
Race: Metahuman
Height: 5'10 • 178 cm
Weight: 181 lb • 81 kg
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Brown
Superpowers: Agility, Dexterity, Durability, Endurance, Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Memory, Enhanced Senses, Enhanced Sight, Enhanced Smell, Intelligence, Intuitive aptitude, Jump, Peak Human Condition, Precognition, Reflexes, Stamina, Super Speed, Super Strength, Time Manipulation, Underwater breathing, Vision - Night, Weapon-based Powers
Stats: intelligence 85, strength 80, speed 65, durability 70, power 85, combat 80

History:
Scientist Rex Tyler, raised in upstate New York, developed an affinity for chemistry, particularly biochemistry. Working his way through college, he landed a job researching vitamins and hormone supplements at Bannermain Chemical. A series of discoveries and accidents led him to the "miraculous vitamin" Miraclo. He found that concentrated doses of the "miraclo" given to test mice increased their strength and vitality several times that of normal. After taking a dose himself, Rex found he could have superhuman strength and speed for the hour that the vitamin's effects lasted, before returning to human levels. Keeping the discovery of Miraclo a secret, Tyler decided that human trials would be limited to the only subject he could trust: himself. Feeling that the Miraclo-induced abilities should be used for good purposes, he decided to use the abilities to help those in need; in other words, he would become a superhero, based in Appleton City. He received his first mission by placing an ad stating that "The Man of The Hour" would help the needy. Tracking down one responder to the ad, he aided a housewife whose husband was falling in with the wrong crowd, and stopped a robbery. Using a costume he found in an abandoned costume shop, he started to adventure as The Hour-Man. egan to decline in the post-war years. Eventually, his adventures ended. However, with the resurgence of super-heroes in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, interest in the Golden Age heroes returned, and Hourman was soon appearing as a guest star in issues of Justice League of America. Like all the other Golden Agers, he was now considered an elder statesman of the super-hero set. Unlike some other Golden Age heroes, his character would continue to grow more and more complex. The idea that Miraclo was addictive, combined with the suggestion that Tyler himself was addicted to crime fighting, made Hourman one of the superhero world's first cautionary tales. Rex would continue to fight both of his addictions throughout the rest of his appearances. His character was seemingly killed off along with other Golden Age heroes fighting a time-traveling villain named Extant, during the Zero Hour crisis, when Extant increased Rex's temporal rate to age him to death.[4] He was rescued from that fate by the third Hourman and put in a pocket dimension called the Timepoint. Rex would remain there for one hour, but that time would only pass when he was visited by his son, after which Rex would have to return to the confrontation with Extant so that history would unfold as it had. However, when Rick was wounded in a fight with Nemesis, he transferred himself to the Timepoint. Rex was sent back in the role of Hourman until the android Hourman returned to take the JSA to the Timepoint and retrieve Rick. When the Timepoint ended just as Rick's injuries had been treated, Rick and Rex fought to try and return to Zero Hour, but the android Hourman took his place in that battle. Rex now lives in semi-retirement with his wife Wendi, noting that he intended to rebuild his relationship with Wendi and also work on reconstructing the android Hourman based on his remaining pieces. Rex has his old Hourman costume, and a bowl full of Miraclo inside a secret compartment of the grandfather clock in his bedroom which opens when both hands are turned to 12.

Powers:
Genius Level Intellect:  Developed Miraclo himself, and is considered extremely intelligent. Chemistry:  A skilled chemist, he is very adept at forming chemical compounds. Hand To Hand Combat (Advanced): Rex was a skilled and experienced hand to hand combatant, who developed his own fighting style based on his diverse range of super powers. Acrobatics: Rex was skilled acrobat whose skills were further enhanced when under the influence of miraclo.  Super Strength:  Miraclo allows vast superhuman strength. This is supposedly equal to that of about ten Olympic athletes, but the strength he actually displays is considerably higher .  Superhuman Speed:  Miraclo gives enhanced reaction time, reflexes, agility, leaping and speed enhancements, to the point where he could dodge bullets and leap across buildings with incredible ease. His enhanced agility and reflexes was his greatest asset in combat, and proved to be a great advantage in a fight. Nigh Invulnerability:  The Miraclo Pill provided a degree of invulnerability, durability, an increased resistance to physical damage (to the extent of being impervious to small and large arms fire), and a large degree of stamina and resistance to injury.