[quote=dirkzorn;4296552]Where did Noah Burstein get the funding for the experiment which inadvertantly gave super powers to Carl Lucas?[/Q]

defenatily in my basement

The Fed's stimulus package.

Didn't Berstein also create Warhawk and those annoying bears, as well?
If I remember, Warhawk's procedure was paid for by the US Military, so I'll say they might have continued the funding which eventually led to Carl Lucas (Luke Cage) gaining his powers.

No, not the US gov't. Poor old Noah had to look to the private sector for his Seagate prison research project.

I notice, JTR, that you spelled the name Berstein, which is how I found it to be spelled in some places, but I went with Burstein, a spelling I found in some other places. I am on my way to the old long boxes to look up the original spelling right now....

I don't have a Hero for Hire #1, my collection runs 2-17 then jumps around. But it looks like Burstein is the original spelling, for what that's worth.

In the Joephisto retcon, his name was Smith, and he may actually have been a woman, but has a superpower that allows him to change gender at will.

I kid you, of course.

Back to the question at hand.

Was he funded by Hydra?
Hydra funds just about everything. It's even been revealed that Hydra was funding Shield all of these years (no joke).
And I wonder if they can partake of the TARP package the gov't offers.

It wasn't Hydra.

Let's see... ruling out any and all gov't branches and Hydra, that leaves only two other groups with large sums of cash that would be interested in such scientific endevours.
I'll go with AIM being the likely suspect.

Funding came from the Maggia/Mob/Syndicate. At least thats my guess.

And now that you've ratted them out, they'll come looking for you and when they find you, they'll take you out. And I don't mean on a date.

I listen to way too much Old Time radio. I'm almost certian that was an exact line from The Saint. Spoken by none other than Bruno himself.

Except the part about "on a date", it was either from the Saint or one of the "Falcon" movies starring either George Sanders or Tom Conway (based on the book series from the 1940's).

Not AIM, not the Maggia/Mob, etc.