COMIC ART (SUPERHEROES) - CARDIAC

Torn by conflict, corporate greed and the deaths of innocents turned Dr. Wirtham into the man he is today: the vigilante Cardiac. Dr. Elias Wirtham was a dedicated physician who, while still a child, lost his older brother to a rare and incurable disease. With that, Elias vowed to become a physician. Graduating from medical school, he went on to build the most powerful medical and biological research empire on the East Coast. Acquiring an older chemical company, he learned that it had produced a drug that could have saved his brother, but kept it off market until the economic climate was more favorable. Enraged and embittered, he vowed to strike at those individuals whose positions or technicalities protected them from the law. In order to undertake this crusade, Elias underwent a series of extremely painful operations that replaced his heart with a compact beta-particle reactor and encased his entire body within a layer of Vibranium-mesh pseudoskin, specifically designed to channel beta particles into his muscles. He became Cardiac, the cyborg-vigilante.