Jack Parsons and the Suicide Squad
The Story of a Sorcerous Scientist
5 min readOct 16, 2018
On October 2nd of 1914, a boy named Marvel Whiteside Parsons was born in Los Angeles, California. He later came to be known as John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons. Jack came from a very wealthy family. He grew up on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, otherwise known as “millionaire mile”. The street was lined with extravagant mansions. More to the point…