[4] Vowing to protect the peace of his new home, the self-proclaimed "Human Robot" took the secret identity of journalist turned Dartmoor University professor Roger Winkle in the city of Riverview, USA[5] where he lived with his young ward Billy Baxton, the first person he met when he arrived on Earth and the only one who knew his true origins.

[4] His super-durable robotic body was equipped with advanced alien technology that, among other things, allowed him to generate force fields and sonic blasts and to shoot metal-melting laser beams out of his eyes.

Possessing the full range of human emotions including the ability to fall in love, due to some sort of innate inferiority complex he felt he was unworthy of anything more than a platonic relationship with a woman because he was "only a robot.

[8] Having first faced off against Captain Marvel before the hero had started wearing a mask to protect his identity,[10] Fate soon noticed the strong resemblance between his alien adversary and the mild-mannered Prof. Winkle and came to the obvious conclusion that they were one and the same person, but he quickly discovered that proving it was a whole other matter.

[11] Winged masked magician, hypnotist and megalomaniacal mastermind the Bat[10] visually resembled Batman enough to prompt a response from DC Comics attorneys threatening to sue for plagiarism.

(Bureau of International Revolutionary Devices) secretly performed on-campus mind control experiments which endangered Prof. Winkle's tentative relationship with the university president's daughter Linda Knowles.

An android like himself, the skullcap-clad Destroyer was a burly and literally fiery-eyed weapon of mass destruction who, in addition to being virtually indestructible and able to fly through the vast depths of space, could shoot devastating blasts of flame out of the yellow circle on his chest and had magnetic hands designed to grapple with his metal-bodied foe.

Created by the enemy Volcano People of the hero's home planet, the Destroyer also escaped the death of their world and was now allied with Earth's own hostile subterranean race.