Mister Extraordinary

Official History

Little official history is actually recorded regarding Thaddeus Booker's years as the adventurer Mister Extraordinary.  Officially, It is recorded that he was born in 1894 and lived in a town called West Port, Missouri.  He worked as a bricklayer, was married in 1912, and had a daughter, Naomi, one year later.  He fought in World War I where he exhibited strength and fortitude beyond those of normal men.  After a short career as a traveling performer, he vanished sometime in 1920.
 

Unofficial History

More information was gained on the history of Mister Extraordinary thanks to the time-traveling metahuman Tom Davidson.  He used his powers to travel to the past and bring Naomi Booker to the present with him so he and his fellow students at PS238 could interview her for their history report.  She recounted the history of her life with her father to them.  The origin of his powers is unknown, but they were discovered after Thaddeus' unit was shelled and he came out of the battle with barely a scratch.  His "nom de cape" was given to him by a reporter who was a friend.  Following the war he simply wanted to return to his life with his wife and daughter, but he was contacted by a talent agency who contracted him to do performances across the United States.  He was presented his trademark sash by the women's league of Chicago after a show there.  He thwarted a kidnapping attempt on Naomi during a show in Ohio.  While Naomi was unharmed in this attempt, it caused strained relations between Thaddeus and his wife Vivian. 
 
Following the kidnapping attempt on Naomi, Thaddeus was contacted by FBI and conscripted into doing work for them.  Although Thaddeus did not speak of these events to his wife and child, they did see the results of his adventures in the headlines of the newspapers.  Among his exploits, he assisted the FBI in vice-squad raids,  stopped sabotage attempts, rescued ambassadors, and helped break up worker strikes.
 
This work for the FBI did not please Thaddeus because even though he was initially tasked with obviously heroic deeds, such as stopping bank robbers, he was now being charged with stopping people because their ideas were a threat to the country.  This did not sit well with Thaddeus and he began to question his work for the government. 

Mister Extraordinary's last job for the government was one that he refused to complete.  He was given the task of breaking up a suspected communist cell, but found out that many of the suspected communists were men that he served with in the war.  He planned on refusing the mission but his wife and family were threatened with deportation to Siberia by his government liaison.  In order to protect his family, he instructed his wife to publicly denounce him to the media and he would leave his family.  He explained this to Naomi and even though she didn't understand why he had to do what he was going to do, she agreed to do what her mother and father said to do.  He escaped the next morning using his power of flight, which he had previously kept secret from his government handlers.
 
While he may have disappeared from public view, Mister Extraordinary continued to visit his daughter at night and frequently took her for flights.
 

Potential Continuity Issues

Initially in issue #7 of PS238 Mister Extraordinary is called "Thaddeus Booker", but following the first mention of his name he is referred to as "Mr. Boomer".  It is unclear whether his surname was intended to be Booker or Boomer as the name was not corrected in the reprint of the issue in the second PS238 trade paperback.