The ‘super-villain’ character ‘Harvey Rupert Elder’, aka ‘Mole Man’, created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics in 1962, will appear in Marvel Studios’ “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” played by Paul Walter Hauser:
“…’Harvey Rupert Elder’, a nuclear engineer and explorer, was socially shunned due to a combination of his abrasive personality and dwarfish appearance…
“…with his fellow explorers ridiculing him for his eccentric, crackpot theories regarding a ‘Hollow Earth’.
“In 1956, while following a group of explorers called ‘Monster Hunters’, he stumbled upon ‘Monster Isle’, which was at the time a base of the ‘Deviant Warlord Kro’.
“When Elder fell into a massive cave leading deep into the underground realm of ‘Subterranean, he decided his theories had finally been vindicated. However, his eyes were permanently damaged when he gazed directly upon a highly reflective deposit of diamonds.
“Partially blind and apparently secluded from the surface world forever, Elder dubbed himself the ‘Mole Man’ …
“…and became the ruler of the branch of Subterraneans known as the ‘Moloids’.”
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