Kept on Wikipedia:Human Top

Human Top is the name of different characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Fictional character biography

Bruce Bravelle

The first Human Top is a Golden Age superhero who first appeared in Red Raven Comics #1 (1940).

Bruce Bravelle is a high-school graduate from the fictional town of Patriotville, South Carolina. He was a test subject for a scientist who was trying to find a way to nourish the human body with electrical currents instead of food. In the middle of one of the tests, a bolt of lightning struck the castle in which the experiment was being conducted, causing an opposing magnetic flow and giving Bravelle the ability to spin around at superhuman speed when he crosses his wrists or is exposed to electricity. He can fly, drill his way through walls, and deflect bullets. He can operate underwater and travel at a speed of up to 250 miles per hour (400 km/h). His bullet-deflecting and wall-drilling powers are created by the intense whirlwind which he generates when spinning.

In his first adventure (published in 1940), the Top thwarts some bank robbers, ultimately discovering that bank owner Horace Vanderveer (who had tried to frame the Top for the robbery) was behind the robbery and forcing him to confess.

In his second adventure (published in 1942), the Top fought and defeated a sinister criminal mastermind called the Red Terror. The Red Terror and his goons derail and rob a train and escape in a zeppelin. The Top tracks them to their hideout in an abandoned mine and kills them all as they attempt to escape.

Bravelle's subsequent activities and ultimate fate or current whereabouts are unknown.

David Mitchell

The second Human Top first appeared in The Invaders vol. 1, #27 (1978).

David "Davy" Mitchell was a World War II hero and member of the Kid Commandos. He had the power to spin like a top at super-speed. During World War II, teenagers David "Davy" Mitchell and Gwenny Lou Sabuki, were present at a stateside battle in which sidekicks Bucky (Bucky Barnes) and Toro (Thomas Raymond) of the superhero team the Invaders fought the supervillain Agent Axis. During the battle, one of Gwenny's father's inventions accidentally gave Gwenny and Davy superhuman powers. She became Golden Girl, and he the Human Top. The four youthful heroes defeated Agent Axis, and later formed the Kid Commandos, who were allied with the adult Invaders.

The Kid Commandos even fought the Invaders, when they disagreed with the military's use of a Tsunami Bomb, which would have caused too much collateral damage. The bomb was never used, when the Invaders saw the testing site was populated with civilians.

After the war, he was a member of the V-Battalion's Penance Council.

His son as Twister had tried using mechanical means to simulate the powers of the Human Top, but eventually decided to serve the V-Battalion in a scientific capacity. Davy is also the grandfather of Topspin.

In his later years as seen during the "Last Days" part of the Secret Wars storyline, Davy moved into Valhalla Villas, a retirement community for Golden Age heroes and villains that is located in Miami. He and the rest of the retirees were temporarily de-aged and went back into action one last time before the collision between Earth-616 and Earth-1610.

David Cannon

David Cannon was introduced in the 1960s and is currently known as Whirlwind

See also

• Top (comics), a DC supervillain with similar powers

External links

• Human Top (Bruce Bravelle) at Marvel Wiki
• Human Top (David Mitchell) at Marvel Wiki

This article "Human Top" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Human Top. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

This page exists already on Wikipedia.