As such, Wyndham designs a suit of protective silver-plated armor and captures the werewolf (who turned out to be Gregor Russoff), but not before it scared off Wyndham’s Moloids. A month later, a werewolf kills Meriem Drew on the adjoining Russoff estate Wyndham is also attacked but survives unscathed, and Jonathon, shattered by the loss of both wife and child, wordlessly leaves Wundagore.

Herbert and Jonathon devise an emergency treatment, injecting her with Drew’s experimental spider serum, subjecting her to Wyndham’s evolving ray, and then placing her into extended suspended animation. Construction proceeded, but Drew’s daughter Jessica fell ill in March 1931, affected by the radioactive uranium. Grabsheid builds a spaceship into their base, and subsequently continues upgrading the Citadel.Īgain, Phaeder intervenes, bringing Herbert an army of underground dwelling Moloids as a labor force to build the Citadel.

In exchange for financing his rocketry, German rocket scientist Horace Grabsheid (later Grayson) designs their “Citadel of Science” (named Wundagore). With their newfound wealth, they purchase large quantities of additional land from neighbor Baron (Gregor) Russoff. Herbert finances a lab for them by selling his mother’s home, but their discovery of uranium on the land in July of that same year soon allows them virtually unlimited finances. Halfway through 1930, via a partnership with Jonathon Drew, Wyndham moves to the eastern side of Transia’s Wundagore Mountain to land Drew’s wife Meriem had inherited from her uncle. That same year, Wyndham returns to his mother’s basement while his mother goes to live with her sister and finally succeeds, evolving his Dalmatian, Dempsey, into humanoid form, but hunters shoot Dempsey. When 1930 rolls around, his professors frown upon his single-minded focus and expel Wyndham. Documents in hand, Wyndham returns to Oxford University and develops a serum capable of controlled genetic alteration, which he later names Isotope A. While drinking with Drew, Herbert encounters a mysterious stranger (actually the Inhuman Phaeder, father of Maelstrom) who hands Herbert papers containing a blueprint for breaking the genetic code. At that year’s International Conference on Genetics in Geneva, Switzerland, Herbert befriends fellow scientist Jonathon Drew, a Yale arthropod specialist. Nathaniel Essex, AKA Mister Sinister, and conducts genetic experiments in his mother’s suburban London basement, attempting with limited success to evolve rats in his genetic accelerator. College student Herbert Edgar Wyndham looks up to heretical biologist Dr. Though, the unethical Wyndham continues his experiments, establishing a Citadel of Science on Wundagore Mountain where he enhances his intellect and creates evolved, anthropomorphic beings. When genetics student Herbert Wyndham develops a controversial serum that alters genetic code, he gets expelled.

Exodus 1958