Rod Runtledge

Rod Runtledge is the kid behind the mask of Fallout Boy

History
Runtledge lived next door to Gloria Grand with his Aunt June. His parents and his twin brother Dodd died in a plane crash over the remote South American jungle. He first met when he was robbing a store of a TV. Radioactive Man took Rod back home and told him that the violent comics were why he was acting like a delinquent. Rod later got rid of the comic books, throwing them into a lake.

Becoming Fallout Boy
After school one day, Rod went to Experiments in Radio-Activity. Claude was also there that day and they watch the experiments together. At the top floor of the exhibit, a gyrostabilizer had burned out and the Xeno-Ray fell over. Rod and Claude end up dangling from it and it emits radioactive energy to the two of them. Rod could now see without his glasses and was stronger than before. At home, he noticed Radioactive Man heading towards the roof of his apartment building, then noticed Claude coming down from the roof. He realized that they were the same person.

Claude invited Rod to become his sidekick. When Rod's Aunt June had another brain fever, she was moved into a nursing home and Rod moved in with Claude and became Fallout Boy.