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Cyrus Benjamin




Cyrus Benjamin Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown
Race: Human


Legal status: U.S. citizen


Story: In the late 19th century, Cyrus worked for Xolus Nobyl. Exactly what he was doing and when was not revealed [2].

Just before the gold rush in Klondyke in the 19th century Cyrus made a fortune by finding gold, and left immediately after. After Klondyke he traveled thru Canada to Chicago and from there to Latin America. He ended up in Russia in 1916 where he med Lenin. When the Bolcheviks took over in 1917, he was appointed special advisor for Lenin [1].

In 1980 Cyrus succeeded in capturing Nobyl and got hold on a few items from the ship but he never succeeded in getting Nobyl to tell where his spaceship was. It wasn't until he and Jonathan Deskinn tortured Nobyl's wife he revealed where the spaceship was a how to get in [2]. Cyrus, Deskinn and Ajax only had control of the spaceship for a short while before Xolus Cor defeated him and Ajax, getting Deskinn killed in the process [3]. What happened after this has not been revealed/published.


Skills & abilities: Super strength and regeneration from an alien nanotech drug he uses. The drug also kept him young. In 1995 he was more than 100 years old and still looked like a min in his thirties.


Continuity: Broadway Comics
Publisher(s): Broadway Comics
First app.: Powers That Be (vol. 1) #6 (1996)
Creator(s): Jim Shooter
Tony Bedard
Janet Jackson
Joseph A. James
Pauline Weiss
Andrew Wendel
Country of origin: USA USA


Related links/characters:
- Broadway Comics
- Ajax
- Jonathan Deskinn
- Snoopy
- Xolus Cor/Star Seed


References:
  1. Powers That Be (vol. 1) #6
    Broadway Comics
  2. Star Seed (vol. 1) #7
    Broadway Comics
  3. Star Seed (vol. 1) #9
    Broadway Comics