 DAN THE DYNA-MITE [Daniel Dunbar] |
Personal Data
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Real Name: Daniel Dunbar
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Overview
Daniel Dunbar and his chemistry teacher Thomas N. Thomas somehow absorbed chemical reactions which meant that they gained super-powers when two rings they wore made contact. Using these powers they became the heroes TNT and Dyna-Mite, joining the All-Star Squadron. When TNT was killed, Dan was devastated, but discovering that he could activate his powers alone, he joined the Young All-Stars once he had begun to recover from his friend's death. He survives to the present day.
The only child of Charles and Judith Dunbar, young Danny was a lonely boy who found friendship in his track coach and chemistry teacher, Tex Thomas. While Thomas was working on a secret chemical compound, he and Danny found that they were absorbing certain properties from the chemicals, and when treated with a slight electrical contact, found that the duo had acquired super-powers.
Thomas and Dunbar decided to use the abilities to fight crime and a short time before the US entry into World War II adventured as TNT and Dyna-Mite. They were invited to join the wartime conglomerate of mystery-men known as The All-Star Squadron and on one of those missions for the group, while investigating suspected spy activities near Boulder, Colorado, TNT was killed by Nazi spies.
Fearing that his short career as a mystery-man was over, Dyna-Mite first joined up with several other young heroes that banded together during that case and formed the All-Star Squadron sub-group known as The Young All-Stars. Dyna-Mite found that he could now activate the concussive electrical blasts on his own, and continued on with his career. His parents found out about his secret identity in mid-1942, but it is unknown what happened after that revelation.
About two years ago, however, along with other former "sidekicks" of World War II heroes, he formed the advocacy group known as "Old Justice", hoping to control and restrict younger meta-humans under governmental controls.
At first, TNT and Dyna-Mite were "positively" and "negatively" charged, so that when each touched the rings that each wore together, it activated their powers, which included increased strength, speed and resistance to injury. They have been shown to be able to transfer these charges to other objects. They could also project electrical charges from their hands. After TNT's death, Dyna-Mite could affect the change by himself using both rings. The electrical blasts became more concussive explosion, so there may be a possible link to QRX-27, The Human Bomb's origination of his powers. Their costumes may have been made of a form of "fibro-wax", which withstood The Human Bomb's blasts. Both were very good athletes, and good hand-to-hand combatants.
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