Multi-Man
Multi-Man | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Challengers of the Unknown #14 (June–July 1960) |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Duncan Pramble |
Species | Metahuman |
Team affiliations | Injustice League Justice League Antarctica League of Challenger-Haters Suicide Squad |
Notable aliases | Mister Voodoo |
Abilities |
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Multi-Man (Duncan Pramble) is a fictional character that has been both a
Fictional character biography
Originally an enemy of the Challengers of the Unknown, Pramble consumes a substance known as "Liquid Light" found in an ancient temple. The effect of this substance is that whenever he dies, he resurrects with a different, random superpower, often becoming "energy beings" or monsters.[3] The side effect of this is that his head grows disproportionately large (with pointed ears and large eyes) and his body becomes small and weak. For years, he is one of the Challengers' most persistent foes, the founder of the League of Challenger-Haters and the creator of the giant android Multi-Woman. With the Challenger-Haters, he also battles the Doom Patrol on one occasion.
With several other villains, Multi-Man becomes a member of the
Death and redemption
He drifts away from the League and becomes a supermarket bagger. During the 1991 Challengers of the Unknown mini-series, he is prompted by the seeming 'personification of all evil' to destroy Challenger Mountain with a bomb. This bomb, combined with the energies of the evil entity, causes the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians and two of the Challengers themselves. Duncan later makes up for this. While the Challengers and their new reporter ally, Moffet, are confronting the entity, he sneaks onto the battlefield. He takes a neutron bomb from Moffet's hands and dives into the creature's mouths. Both are seemingly destroyed. The entire incident is reported as a small article in the newspaper, written by Lois Lane, focusing on his death and little else.
Later, Multi-Man appears alive in the Belle Reve Prison riot where he and others manage to defeat Green Lantern after his ring is stolen. This is his second riot in a short period of time. He is involved with the Outsiders when they had been sent to prison on a false murder charge.[8]
Multi-Man, now taller and fitter, is eventually 'volunteered' for the
Later, he has returned to life and was a part of the
Powers and abilities
Multi-Man consumed a Liquid Light serum that gave him the power to be instantly resurrected after dying, each time with extraordinary new abilities.[10] These powers he have obtained include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Telepathy
- Empathy for others' pain
- Super conductive skin
- Blood turns metal to acid
- Body can become two-dimensional
- Involuntary shrinking
- Reanimating dead tissue
- Enlarged cranium
References
- ISBN 978-1605490458.
- ISBN 9780313397516.
- ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.
- ^ Justice League International #23
- ^ Justice League America Annual #4
- ^ Justice League America #53
- ^ Justice League Europe #49–50
- ^ JLA #34 (October 1999)
- ^ Suicide Squad (vol. 2) #1
- ^ Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. 1 #16 (June 1986)