Origin
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In the Golden-Age superheroes got their powers in a lot of different ways, from being strange alien visitors, to breathing heavy water, to just being born that way.
Percy van Norton, “useless son of a wealthy man,” however is unique, he got his “strength of a hundred elephants, speed of a racing car, and the skin with the toughness of a rhinoceros,” by reading a book.
The “Secret Book of Yogi Exercises” to be exact.
Keeping up his guise as pointless and lazy “super playboy” Percy from time to time, when the need arises, he rips off his mundane everyday tuxedo and becomes Strongman, the Perfect Human.