Matthew Stargrave:

Matthew Stargrave was born mute and orphaned while still a child.

He was taken in by a kindly priest who became his friend and mentor.
The priest fired Stargrave's imagination with the divine wonder and order of the cosmos.

But the priest was old.
One day, his heart failed him, and he passed away.

Devastated, Stargrave was on the verge of committing suicide
when the Celestial adopted him as its avatar.

Since that time, Matthew has become the acrobat known as
Stargrave the Stiltman,
one of the prime attractions of

the Psycho Circus...