Steelman

Mr Steelman was a "mysterious underworld figure" (PROSE: Titan Declares War!) who came to be regarded as the world's public enemy number one. (COMIC: The Return of Mr. Steelman)

Steelman hired a small army to storm Creighton-Ward Manor in order to steal some dangerous Luthvian blueprints orginally stolen by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward. When this failed, he ordered that the man who destroyed the plans for Lady Penelope, Roger Lyon, be kidnapped and brought to his base in Mount Vesuvius. Intent on getting Roger to reveal what he knew about the plans with the "wonders of science and technology", he commanded that Roger be strapped into a machine. He also destroyed Seabird I, a vessel carrying Lady Penelope and Parker who were following Roger's movements using a homing device, with a torpedo but they survived and were able to confront Steelman before proceedings with Roger could get underway. He immediately captured Penelope and, affording her the luxury of her lipstick before her execution by lava, was caught out when it actually released a toxic gas. In the ensuing fight, Parker was able to knock Steelman into the volcano. As they departed Italy for England, however, Penelope reminded Parker that they never saw a man inside the steel casing identified as Steelman and that it was possible it had been operated by remote control. (COMIC: Mr. Steelman)

On 20 February 2065, TV 21 published a testimony from an annyomous source which indicated that Steelman was behind the kidnapping of one of Lady Penelope's undercover agents after his car was forced off the road. (PROSE: Titan Declares War!) On 6 March, an article stated that Lady Penelope was continuing her pursuit of Steelman. (PROSE: Marineville Waits!)

After Paris was devastated by the Crustavon missile attack, Steelman looted the opened vaults of the National Bank and, when the hue and cry died down, returned to the scene of the crime with the proceeds of the gains. Several months later, he had produced many metal avatars although his work risked being discovered when demolition crews begun reconstructing the French capital. He set of a few explosions to buy himself some time and delay the police while he escaped through the sewers of old Paris. He then took his cargo by boat up the river Seine, hiding his weapons below the water line at a police checkpoint, and eventually arrived at a disused railway in the Black Forest which he made his base of operations. Aiming to become the richest man in the world, Steelman used his robots to break into the Trans-Europe Monorail Headquarters in Strasbourg and discovered the route that a train carrying one thousand million pounds of gold bullion would take, killing a motorist who witnessed him on the way. Steelman's robots worked for two days on a piece of the monorail track so that it could be removed, causing the train to fall into the lake underneath, and replaced again as if nothing had happened. (COMIC: The Return of Mr. Steelman)