Dr. Lewis Oscar Croft

Dr. Lewis Oscar Croft © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Deceased Earliest Appearance: mid 1970s Base of Operations: Detroit Personal Data InfoDump First Mentioned: Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #2 Event Timeline Dr. Lewis Oscar Croft A scientist who was rumored to have tinkered with genetic mutating for various mobsters, in hopes of creating super-powered enforcers. He was also speculated to have a hand in the creation of Black Velvet, Energy Brown and The Thumper. History After various backing mob bosses were rumored to have gave him test subjects, he put them through various kinds of experimentation on their physical and metaphysical systems including the mysterious Kirlian system. After The Street Angel and Mister Badd busted up his lab and discovered Black Velvet, who confronted the two, Croft managed to escape though he was captured the next day, but he had managed to destroy much of his records. His body was found in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee in early 1977. And news reports stated that it was a contract killing by Black Velvet from either Oswald "Massacre" Morton of Detroit or The Deacon.