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Attributes

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Blonde

Features: Always wears a suit

Summary

Created By: Kurt Busiek, Chris Marrinan, Don Hudson

Real Name: Sturdevant E. Robbins

Current Aliases: Bob

Former Aliases: None

Dual Identity: None

Current Occupation: None

Former Occupation: PR Agent

Citizenship: U.S.

Legal Status: No criminal record

Place of Birth: Unknown

Marital Status: Married

Known Relatives: None

Known Confidants: None

Known Allies: Spider-Man

Major Enemies: Timmy, Chester and Myron

Usual Bases: His agency

Former Bases: None

Current Groups: None

Former Groups: Unknown

Education: Presumably college

  

Powers & Paraphenalia

Strength Level: Regular male

Powers: None

Abilities: Public relations, welding

Equipment: Hypertron suit and disks

Weapons: Volt Rays, Negative Vortex

Limitations: Bad in choosing names, recognising danger of certain weapons. The suit needs to change discs to do certain things

 
 

Background

Sturdevant E. "Bob" Robbins, is Hypertron. His PR agency was falling apart, so he tried to get Spiderman as a client. Coincidentally, when he proposed it to Spidey he was catching a bank robber wearing a special suit. Bob knocked him out and took the suit for himself. He welded a grid in it so the heat dispersal wouldn't be blocked and then started thinking codenames to gain fame (Bobtron 4000, Captain Bob, etc.). But the robber's name was Hypertron and that's what he settle with, eventually.

Meanwhile, two of the developers of the suit paid the bail of the robber and third scientist. They are three nerds and former AIM scientists who just spent the last of their money making the suit. They trace the suit and start fighting Bob. Spidey gets in the way and when Bob's Volt Rays aren't enough to stop the heavily armed trio, he asks the suit's Help to get a good weapon. It suggests the Negative Vortex.

He activates it and the trio goes "Oh Boy". it is gonna wipe half the city out. With Spidey's intervention, it doesn't do anything, the three go under arrest, and Bob gives the suit back to him.

But he is smart enough to keep a copy of the suits' diagrams to himself.

Thanks To:

Some of the above information is extracted from the various versions of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe and the more recent Marvel Encyclopaedias.

The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.

  

 
 

Character Appearances

Dec 1991 App: Web of Spider-Man #83
May 1994 App: Spider-Man Unlimited #5 (Story 2)
  Known as "The Bobster"
 

By Francisco Araujo da Costa

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