As a child, Alexander Percy Tuttle was bright and had a particular talent for science. His father, business man Morris Tuttle, was only interested in making money and threatened his son if he "wasted his time" with scientific concerns. The younger Tuttle later went to work in his father's construction company but continued his experiments in secret. His father's constant abuse left Alexander Tuttle mentally unbalanced. The younger Tuttle had used the company's fund for a vacation village project to develop a glove that operated from the energy from his central nervous system. With his mechanical glove, the Crumbler could cancel the force that binds atoms together. Tuttle sabotaged the construction project and destroyed equipment hoping to use the insurance to replace the cash he had stolen