GORDON LANGLEY

Real Name: Gordon Langley

Identity/Class: Human mutate (World War I era)

Occupation: Adventurer

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Allen, unidentified sect of yogis

Enemies: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile through the world

First Appearance: Adventures Into Weird Worlds#16/2 (March, 1953)

Powers/Abilities: Langley had great mental powers which heavily influenced reality. If he seriously doubted that something which existed did not exist that thing ceased to exist.

History:

(Adventures Into Weird Worlds#16/2) - Gordon Langley was an adventurer who at the beginning of the 20th century travelled through the world.
    One time he stayed away from home for months because ha had found a sect of yogis in India that taught him their secrets. Langley learned how to make objects disappear.

Back home Langley went to visit his friend Allen. There he showed his power to Allen. Allen could not believe him, but in the end he was terrified. Allen suggested that all reality could simply be the creation of a human mind. Doubting his own existence Langley's power made the two men vanish from existence.

Comments: Created by Bill Benulis (writer), Gene Colan (pencils), Jack Abel and Gene Colan (inks).

A great power could be used very badly. With great powers comes great responsibilty. It is strange the Yogis didn't teach this to Langley. Perhaps they should read Spider-Man.

The story happened around the beginning of the 20th century, judging by the clothes and by Langley's car.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Gordon Langley has no known connections to

• Langley, SHIELD agent @ Bizarre Adventures#25
• Langley, employed the Triad Brothers, married Deathwatch's sister @ Marvel Comics Presents I#70
• Billy Langley, son of Helen and Mark, military school, led Googam into quicksand @ Tales of Suspense I#17
• Elizabeth Langley, killed by Dracula @ Tomb of Dracula I#12
• Helen Langley, wife of Mark, held captive by Googam @ Tales of Suspense I#15
• Mark Langley, encountered Goom and Googam @ Tales of Suspense I#15
• or any other character with a similar name.

Allen

    Allen was a normal man who simply could not believe what he was seeing.
    Langley only doubted that any object didn't exist and that object vanished before Allen's eyes. Allen was desperate when he thought to himself that he and Langley could be mere creations of another person's mind. This doubt hit Langley as well, who doubted that they existed, and so it was. They disappeared!

 
-Adventures Into Weird Worlds#16/2

Yogis

    The Yogis had mental powers similar and superior to Langley's. They were capable of high levels of relaxation and concentration.

    They lived in a temple in a mysterious part of India and formed a sect. They had many secrets, but they taught one of them to Langley.

 
--Adventures Into Weird Worlds#16/2

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Adventures Into Weird Worlds#16/2 , p3, pan5 (Langley, main image)
        p1, pan3 (Langley, head shot)
        p1, pan2 (Allen)
        p1, pan1 (a Yogi)

Appearances:
Adventures Into Weird Worlds#16/2 (March, 1953) - Bill Benulis (writer), Jack Abel (inks), Stan Lee (editor)

Last updated: 06/08/11

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