A.J. Raffles (Earth-616) VS Aaron Reece (Earth-12041)

A.J. Raffles was an expert safe cracker originally from the United Kingdom. He was arrested for his crimes and after serving his time reformed and immigrated to the United States to start a new life as a simple farmer. During this time he befriended the super hero known as the Whizzer. In the spring of 1943, Raffles used his criminals skills in an unexpected way when the Whizzer asked him to use his safe cracking abilities to save the lives of two bank managers trapped in a vault following a robbery. While the Whizzer rounded up the crooks, Raffles successfully cracked the safe saving the lives of the bank managers before they could suffocate. Raffles was hailed a hero, and promised to continue pledging his life to lawfulness.

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Aaron was the son of Owen Reece, known as the Molecule Man. Aaron had a difficult childhood growing up, with father being a villain and his parents would always fight and argue, eventually his father was arrested and his mother had went away, leaving him all alone. Aaron was able to recover his fathers wand as the last thing he has from him and kept it away from those who would take it from him. Hawkeye and Black Widow were looking for Molecule Man only to encounter his son Aaron who was being targeted by A.I.M. when he was in the possession of his father's wand. After ditching A.I.M., Aaron went the run with Hawkeye and Black Widow in pursuit. Aaron considered the Avengers and A.I.M. the same as they both wanted his father's wand.

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