Name: Nuclear
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #43 (1950)
Creators: William Marston and H.G Peter
Abilities: Ability to attract and repel metals from himself using a magnetic suit of his own creation. Brilliant scientist. Possesses the playboy wealth. Possession of a submarine.
Backstory: Percy Playboy was a rich layabout whose hobbies included spending vast amounts of his fathers fortune on frivolous things, partying, and experiments with nuclear physics.
Inheriting the Playboy Mansion and his families fortune after his father passed away, Percy Playboy would have a secret grotto created with a secret entrance accessible from the ocean, as the mansion overlooked the ocean.
Deciding to take up supervillainy because rich people hobbies, Percy would create a super suit which allowed him to control magnetics. Letting him attract or repel metals towards and away from himself. He would then use this ability to terrorize under the moniker of ‘Nuclear’ blackmailing men of business to hand over their wealth least he destroys everything they built.
Taking on the guise of a nervous wreck who needed to be cared for by his sister Joye Playboy, Nuclear was able to freely escape to his secret laboratory within his secret grotto to carry out his fiendish villainy.
In the Bronze age continuity, it would be established that his name was originally Percy Plazchek. With the newspapers calling him ‘Percy Playboy’ due to his brazen nature at societal parties. Leading to Percy changing his surname legally to Playboy to match.
In the post crisis continuity, Nuclear would be a member of the Secret Society of Supervillains and be given his own team called the Nuclear Legion, made up of villains with tangential connections to nuclear energy so that they could carry out the will of the Secret Society of Supervillains.
