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Model 1
Tales of Suspense #39 (December, 1962)
[General Features]
+ Enhanced Strength
+ Allows the user to pick up a man in the air with ease, break though metal doors, destroy brick walls by walking into them, crush a cannonball, tear a wall of two floors in height with one hand, and break the fall of a missile.
+ Enhanced Durability
+ Can protect the user from gunfire, animal bites, the impact of a cannonball, heat, cold, energy, and acidic attacks.
+ Flight
+ Jet boots are powered by highly compressed air that is drawn in, enabling the user to fly or make jet assisted leaps.
- Prolonged use can tax the system, requires recharging.
[Additional Features]
+ Minature Electromagnetic Generators - Can be used to disrupt electrical equipment and reverse magnetism to repel objects like bullets and enemy weaponry.
+ Monobeam - Built into the chestplate, this is a portable proton beam that serves as a powerful search light and can double as a heat ray.
+ Built-In Pacemaker
+ Internal Air Supply
+ Jet-Powered Roller Skates - Used for fast land travel at 200mph.
+ Attachable Jet Engine + 4 Casters - Used for aerodynamic horizontal travel, similar to a luger.
+ Clamp-On Propellor - For traveling on water.
+ Electrical Forcefield - Protects the armor from energy damage.
+ Miniature Flamethrower
+ Tear Gas Bombs
+ Electricity Redirection - Can be directed to its shell allowing the user to electrocute by touch.
+ Buzz Saw
+ Drill
+ Public-Address Speakers
+ Powerful Magnets
+ Detachable Suction Cups - Used to adhere to smooth surfaces.
+ Electronic Reverse-Energy Beam - Can redirect rays of energy.
+ Chemical Crystals - Changes the composition of substances.
+ Miniature Furnace - Generates heat waves.
+ Image Unducers
+ Nuclear-Powered Clippers
+ Diamond-Edged Digging Tools
+ Fluoroscope
+ Audio Recorder
+ Radio Communication Systems - Enhanced by a telescoping antenna, ear plugs, and miniature jet blowers.
[Newer Model Features]*
+ Mark II
+ Lighter And Sleeker Chestplate
+ Heating And Cooling Systems
+ Lenses
+ Onboard O.S. - Has a translator program.
+ Mark III
+ Gold-Plated Design - Friendlier design for good PR.
+ Improved Jet Boots
+ Improved Communication Systems
+ Aluminum Model - All Iron has been replaced in this version with aluminum to make it resistant to the Melter's rays.
+ Replica Version - Incorporated some features later used in the Model 7 - Silver Centurion Armor. It also eliminated the hip-mounted power pods featured on the original Model 1.
+ Mark "0"
+ Enhanced Durability - Capable of taking several repulsor blasts, missiles, and physical blows.
+ Repulsor Rays - Can also be used to make repulsor enhanced jumps.
+ Additional Flamethrower - Can be dispelled from a seam on the chestplate.
*All of these features are not present in the original Model 1
[Precautions]
- This armor is susceptible to rusting.