Orign

Phillip Masters moved to the US from the Balkan country of Transia at a young age. He became a brilliant biologist and was partners with Jacob Reiss. Masters soon became jealous of Reiss' success and ended up killing him when he tried robbing their lab. During this robbery, he caused an explosion at the lab that caused Reiss's daughter, Alicia, to lose her sight.

Masters soon married Reiss's widow and became Alicia's stepfather.

Masters one day discovered some radioactive clay. With the clay, he could create sculptures and control other people. This was when the Puppet Master was born.

He soon became a professional criminal and even teamed with such villains as the Mad Thinker and Doctor Doom. Puppet Master had some run-ins with the Fantastic Four and was shocked when Alicia fell in love with the Thing.

Eventually, Masters was able to see that the feelings Alicia and the Thing shared were genuine.

Decent Into Insanity

Masters has slipped deeper into to insanity lately when he kidnapped Alicia and had Dr. Saunders, a surgical ophalmologist, perform a series of eye transplants. Each surgery gave Alicia sight for a number of hours of vision. Masters was able to procur these eyes by kidnapping and murdering a series of young woman. Eventually, Masters decided that the superhuman nature of Invisible Woman could make for a more permanent eye transplant solution. He was stopped by his daughter who used a puppet she molded of him to break his hands. He was committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Powers

Puppet Master has the ability to create sculptures of people out of radioactive clay and control their thoughts and actions. He attaches strings to his creations and controls them like marionettes.