1967 - Will and Mary Power Reigning Doubles Backgammon Champions bet all their savings to pay off debts run up by their son Peter.

In the Final match they were pipped to the post by a mysterious couple who vanished as soon as they had collected their winnings.

Some days later Peter found his parents bodies at the bottom of a  cliff near their seaside home.

Riddled with guilt Peter runs away but is never convinced of their suicide and becomes obsessed with backgammon sure that this game of chance holds the key to his parents death.

Returning late one night from a Tournament where he felt he had made an important breakthrough he is forced off a bridge by a lorry.

He and his car fall 200 feet and land on a liner carrying nuclear waste.

The explosion of the car cause a nuclear reaction which fuses him and his backgammon board.

Transforming him into
GAMMON MAN.

His skin becomes leathery.

He can calculate pip counts, dice scores and stats faster than a speeding bullet.

He can jump whole backgammon boards in a single leap.

And when he gets angry checkers fly from his mouth and ears.

Shunned by Western Society he flees to a small Persian village where he learns Arabian Kung Fu (from a camel)

But he can never forget the image of his parents on the beach.

So he returns to Las Vegas to seek out his parents killers and guard over gaming for future players.