Thor would hear a report on the radio regarding the stone passengers from the plane and the statuesque taxi driver found at the corner of 53rd and Madison. Duval took a cab ride to the center of town and thanked the driver by transforming him into stone as well. Duval was the only man that left the plane and the steward was horrified when he saw all the passengers inside had turned into stone. Duval traveled halfway across the world to seek out Thor and would land at JFK International Airport. The wealth he had accumulated provided very little satisfaction so Duval set his mind to steal Thor's immortality.

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Duval discovered that the people he turned into stone would revert back to human form after one hour and would use his new found power to become a great thief. Duval started to test his stone spell in public and transform strangers into stone statues. Duval accidentally touched his face and realized he has become a man of living stone. Duval's left hand turned into stone after he touched his right hand. The chemical felt like liquid fire as it started to transform his hand into stone. A strange foreign substance had affected the mixture and Duval accidentally spilled the potion on his right hand. Paul Duval was a young chemist from France whose experiment went awry after he noticed the solution he was working on turned blue instead of red. Origin Paul Duval becomes a man of living stone.

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