Philip Wylie
Gladiator
Unknown Binding
(Hyperion Press March 15, 1963)
Gladiator is an American Science Fiction novel first published in 1930 by Philip Wyle. The story concerns a scientist who invents an "alkaline free-radical" serum to "improve" mankind by granting the proportionate strength of an ant and the leaping ability of the grasshopper. Eight years later, both methpores were used to explain Superman's powers in the first comic of his series. The scientist injects his pregnant wife with serum and his son Hugo Danner is born with superman strength, speed. and bulletproof skin.
- Series
- Classics of science fiction
- Pages
- 332
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