Stuart Taylor

Golden Age Origin
Stuart Taylor was the lab assistant of physicist, Dr. Hayward of the Bonnel Institute who built a time machine, when his daughter, Laura, was threatened by the villain, Ali Ben Pasha. Pasha forced Hayward to test the machine on Stuart and it worked. Eventually, the group escaped from Pasha through time travel, and when Pasha found them, Stuart's experience fighting in ancient wars made him too tough for Pasha's henchmen to handle. Dr. Hayward built a larger time machine beneath his country home, near Central City, so that he, Stuart and Laura could continue exploring time. Laura eventually became Taylor's girlfriend, though in later stories, Taylor traveled through time alone, and returned with tales of adventures that involved other women, which made Laura angry. Taylor and his friends traveled to the prehistoric past, witnessed great events such as the Battle of Waterloo and the destruction of Atlantis, and traveled to distant alternate futures, including one future in which they witnessed robot boxing, and another, in the year 9250, in which humanity was at war with huge intelligent insects. They also traveled to the planet Mercury at one point. Taylor and the Hawywards were mostly motivated by curiosity about the past and future. Sometimes, Dr. Hayward sent Taylor on missions to keep the timeline on its proper course, but there were also a few instances in which the company traveled into the past in search of treasure to finance their operation. There were a few instances of the group bringing people from the past or future to their own time.

Over the course of his adventures, Taylor encountered a significant number of famous figures from history, literature and mythology including Napolean, Hannibal, Ghengis Khan, Kublain Khan, Croesus, William Tell, Simon Bolivar, Cleopatra & Marc Anthony, Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare, King Henry VII, King Richard, The Lionheart, Bluebeard, Don Quixote, Christopher Columbus, Eric the Red & Lief Erickson, Marco Polo, Daniel Boone, Sam Houston, Sampson (of the Old Testament), Goliath, Hercules, Medusa, Sinbad, Ali Baba, Ichabod Crane & the Headless Horseman. Their enemies also included The Great Khan (a mongolian from several centuries in the past, but not Ghengis), and Rogro, a man who stole their time machine and was stranded in the year 4000 AD.

Taylor was an extremely confident and happy man, with a sarcastic sense of humor and a deep admiration for beautiful women (he pretty well objectified them). He was apparently an EXTRAORDINARY fighter, as he insisted on battling the Kings of Darkness, the devil known as Mephisto and the gods Hermes and Mars (God) with his bare fists (Mephisto being the only one that he did not beat). Taylor and Dr. Hayward did carry powerful ray guns from the future on their trips through time, but Taylor was unlikely to use the weapon unless he faced some kind of large monster.

Golden Age Appearances
Jumbo Comics #1-107