Professor Paradox

Regarded as one of the finest scientific minds in the world, Dr. Percival Ashcroft chairs the organization SOURCE, the Scientific Order of Unified Research and Chreotechnical Erudition, which is dedicated to the reasoned and responsible study and dissemination of hypertech advances, as well as, when absolutely necessary, suppressing possibly dangerous technologies quickly becoming widespread across an unready public.

What the public is not aware of is that the reclusive and brilliant Dr. Ashcroft is in truth Professor Paradox, one of the original founding members of the Modern Marvels, though currently inactive. Over a hundred years old, he lives on borrowed time, attempting to dismantle the mystery of his friend and teammate Queen Atlanta's disappearance.

His technology is responsible for the ending of the Incursion and the Anchor Point System he maintains, with the assistance of the brain trust in SOURCE, keeps the Infinite Empire in check. However, he has become less and less interested in events on mainline Earth, instead using his temporal and dimensional technologies to probe new and undiscovered times and places, searching for the lost Marvel.

He remains the one extant member of the original team, and that weighs on him, along with his unnatural age. He is an ally to the current generation, but his mission to rescue Atlanta threatens to slide into a dangerous obsession before long. Paradox knows as well as any other that his time will not last forever.