Solomon Grundy (DC Comics character)

Cyrus Gold was a man murdered in Slaughter Swamp, outside Gotham City, in 1894.His debut story, "Fighters Never Quit!", was published in 1944 and states his death came 50 years earlier.
==Weapons and Abilities==
===Undead Abilities===
*Stamina: Grundy possessed a much higher stamina than the average man.
**When empowered by concentrated chlorophyll, Grundy managed to run through multiple states non-stop, ranging from Kentucky to Oklahoma to New Mexico and finally to Arizona's Petrified Forest before the Green Lantern caught up with and stopped him. (COMIC: And, Then There Was One!)
*Strength: Grundy was possessed of a strength greater than that of a mortal man.
**Green Lantern compared his punches to being hit with a sledgehammer. (COMIC: Fighters Never Quit!)
**Grundy was capable of ripping off steel bank vault doors with some effort. (COMIC: Fighters Never Quit!, And, Then There Was One!, The Revenge of Solomon Grundy!)
===Skills===
*Anti-Gravity: While trapped on the Moon, Grundy learned the Anti-Gravity secret, allowing him to travel through outer space along light waves to their source. (COMIC: The Case of the Withered Flower!)
==Notes==
===Behind the Scenes===
*Grundy was created by American author Alfred Bester.
==Appearances==
*All-American Comics
**Fighters Never Quit! (first appearance)
*All-Star Comics
**The Revenge of Solomon Grundy! (third appearance)
*Comic Cavalcade
**And, Then There Was One! (second appearance)
**The Case of the Withered Flower! (fourth appearance, final chronologically)
==Links==
*Solomon Grundy on Wikipedia
*Solomon Grundy on the DC Database
==References==
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