![]() After Solomon Grundy was rescued from a glacier by Alan Scott's daughter, Jade, Grundy became loyal to her and, for a while, was an ally of Infinity, Inc. Grundy went on to afflict Green Lantern and his teammates, including the Huntress who was the first female for whom he developed an affection. Soon after, Grundy crossed over from his Slaughter Swamp prison on Earth-Two to Earth-One where he encountered that Earth's Superman (see more details below). In the interim, he had battled the combined might of both the Justice Society, and later their counterparts the Justice League, nearly to a standstill, when he developed an affection for a lost alien child. He was briefly a member of the Injustice Society of the World. At this point, he had temporary mastery over all wooden objects, however he subsequently lost this power over time. Grundy eventually mastered the use of stored up emerald energy he had absorbed over the years from his several battles with his arch-foe, and returned to Earth to battle Lantern, Hourman and Doctor Fate. The All-Star Squadron came to their rescue, and Grundy was then thrust back to the moon where he remained for over two decades. A subsequent battle between the two ended up with Lantern burying Grundy in 1947.Īt this point, he was pulled back to 1941 by the time-travelling criminal Per Degaton, who had enlisted the aid of several super-villains to capture the Justice Society of America on Decem(the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor). The second battle with Grundy involved Green Lantern and his fellow members of the Justice Society of America tracking him across the country, depositing Grundy on the moon once he was defeated. Their first fight ended when Grundy was hurled under a train. Grundy proved to be a difficult opponent, unkillable (since he was already dead) and with an inherent resistance to Scott's powers (which could not affect wood, a substance of which Grundy's reassembled body was now largely composed). Strong, vicious, and nearly mindless, Solomon Grundy fell into a life of crime - or, perhaps returned to one according to his scattered residual memories - attracting the attention of the Green Lantern, Alan Scott. One of the men at the camp mentioned the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy, and Gold adopted the moniker. He showed up in a hobo camp and, when asked about his name, one of the few things he could recall was that he was "born on a Monday". Gold murdered two escaped criminals who were hiding out in the marsh and stole their clothes. In 1944, Cyrus Gold's corpse was reanimated as a huge shambling figure with almost no memory of its past life. In Post-Crisis continuity, his death took place in 1895. Note: In Pre-Crisis Earth-Two continuity, Cyrus Gold was murdered in the year 1894. Through an as of yet unknown process, Cyrus Gold's corpse transformed into a rotting, vegetative undead monstrosity that the world would soon come to know as Solomon Grundy. Over the span of fifty years, Gold’s body interacted with the detritus and sour vegetation of the swamp. They buried Gold in the swamp, content that no one would ever come looking for him. ![]() When Gold refused to yield to blackmail, Rachel's pimp, Jem, dashed Cyrus across the back of the head with a shovel. Cyrus met with her for a secret negotiation at Slaughter Swamp, several miles outside of Gotham. According to Rykel, she was pregnant with Gold's child, and sought to extort money from him for her silence. In the year 1895, he had carried on an affair with a local prostitute from Gotham City named Rachel Rykel. Cyrus Gold was born some time around the early 19th century. ![]()
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