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"His first appearance is in Strange Adventures #9"

"Adam Blake was born in 1931 to John and Martha Blake in a mid-western American town. Adam Blake was named after his grandfather (see Secret Origins Annual #1). His birth coincided with the passing of a comet in the night sky, which Johnathan Blake jokingly noted as a sign of good fortune. The comet's radiation activated Adam's meta-gene, and he began to exhibit various powers at a very young age."