
He was served by a small army of henchmen called Shadowmen, and convinced Dr.

This accident was the impetus that drove him to become a supervillain and take the name "Phantom Limb." Īs a Guild supervillain, Phantom Limb rose to a position of great authority although little has been revealed about the Guild's command structure, he was shown to be subordinate only to The Sovereign - the supreme leader of the Guild - and The Council of Thirteen, a governing body within the Guild which conducts trials of members that commit infractions. During an experiment to turn his limbs to normal size, a malfunction occurred which turned Fantomas' limbs not only to normal size, but also invisible, and endowed him with the ability to kill with a mere touch. Hamilton made Billy his lab assistant, thinking he possessed a brilliant mind. He was suspected by the OSI of his ties to the Guild, prompting them to send Billy Quizboy to spy on Hamilton as his student. It is also hinted that he was a recruiter for The Guild of Calamitous Intent prior to the accident that gave him his powers.
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After developing mechanical prosthetic limbs that allowed him to appear normal, he became a professor at State University, where he taught a class full of students who were disabled and/or deformed, and spent his spare time building the "Limb Augmentation Apparatus", a machine meant to transform his limbs to normal proportions. However, Hamilton was disinherited by his family because of a congenital disorder that left him with severely underdeveloped arms and legs.

He came from a long line of adventurers like his grandfather, Fantômas, who among others such as Lloyd Venture, Eugen Sandow, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, and Mark Twain, were members of The Guild, the group that would devolve into the Guild of Calamitous Intent.
