Professor William Wirbelsturm was an engineer and inventor at a military weapons research and development facility outside Albany N.Y. When his company went bankrupt he was cut off. Desperate to find work, Wirbelstrum applied for a job at the local chemical factory in lower Manhattan. Later, unbeknownst to him, a battle involving Black Shadow and Jimmy Nevada’s men ensued near Wirbelstrum’s office. The stray bullets from the mobsters and Shadow’s shurikens pierced several nearby chemical tanks, spilling leaky fumes to the air. When Wirbelstrum tries to take cover during the fight, the ensuing fumes ignite in the crossfire causing an explosion destroying his office in half, but miraculously leaving him barely conscious yet scarred. Blaming Black Shadow for his brain poisoned by the chemicals, and the events happened, Wirbelstrum decided to use his talents and inventive skills for revenge as the anarchist codenamed Whirlwind Willy. Whirlwind Willy is armed with hi-tech weapons and equipment, all based upon wind and aerodynamic technology, including a airfoil backpack that can produce lethal hi-speed cyclones and provides him with agile flight, as well as a “Tornado Gun” which projects high-velocity small maelstroms towards its’ suspected targets. Willy wears a special suit which can resists the gale-force winds his weapons produces. He is a resourceful weapons developer and inventor who supply weapons and gadgets to crime syndicates and terrorists. He is also brilliant tactician and strategist.