Inhuman of The Day
March 1st - Henry Croft
Dr. Henry Croft was the elected leader of a group of humans who were transformed into Inhumans by the super villain, Dr. Hydro. Dr. Hydro was obsessed with the delusion that mankind needed to evolve into amphibian, sea-faring beings in order to survive. The renegade Inhuman, Maelstrom, gave Dr. Hydro a specialized version of the Terrigen Mists to aid him in his schemes. First Dr. Hydro transformed himself into an Inhuman amphibian being with the mists; and then had his minions take a large group of innocent civilians hostage and also transformed them into amphibians with the use of this specialized variety of the Terrigen Mists. These amphibian beings came to be known as the ‘Hydro-Men.’
Prince Namor The Sub-Mariner ultimately defeated Dr. Hydro, but there appeared to be no cure for the Hydro-Men. No longer able to survive on the surface world, Namor offered them a home in the sunken kingdom of Atlantis. Croft was one the first of Dr. Hydro victims. He had bee a professor of genealogy and the others elected him as their leader and tasked him to venture back into the human world in hopes of finding a means of transforming them back into regular humans. Croft sought out Reed Richards of The Fantastic Four.
Richards identified that it had been Terrigen that had transformed Croft and the others. He contacted the Inhumans of Attilan and, with the aid of the Inhuman scientists, Nadar and Budan, was eventually able to concoct a chemical compound that could reverse the mutagenic effects of Terrigen.
Croft volunteered to be the first exposed to this new compound and it succeeded into transforming him back to his human form. The compound was then used to revert the rest of the Hydro-Men back into regular humans and they were each able to return to their former lives.
