Terra-Man
Terra-Man is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Tobias "Toby" Manning was a male human born in the American West in 1878, the son of outlaw Jess Manning, who intended to raise Toby as a desperado like himself. When Toby was 10 tears old, and had just carried out his first solo hold up while his father recuperated from a bullet wound. (Superman v1 #250) In 1888, Toby's father Jess Manning came to be apprehended by a sheriff. This led to the young Toby stealing a gun and broke his dad out of prison. Jess mused that Toby had the makings of an excellent outlaw. A this time, an alien outlaw landed in Cripple Creek to refuel, and Jess shot at him leading to the alien killing him with a raygun. Toby wept, but allowed the alien to take him into space. The alien promised to make him into a space-outlaw that would surpass his own legend and to be the son he had never had in his life. (Superboy v2 #23) Around this time, the alien Collector arrived and attempted to steal the loot, a box of gold coins. Jess Manning fired on the creature, which retaliated by blasting him with a solar ray. Learning of the fatally wounded Manning's plans for his son via a telepathic link, the Collector decided to raise the boy himself in the way his father would have wanted. He wiped Toby's memory of his father's death, then took him into space, surgically altering him to be able to survive in almost any environment and teaching him to handle a variety of futuristic weapons, which Toby adapted into the forms of the 19th Century Earth weapons he was used to. The Collector also gave Toby an Arguvian winged horse named Nova, which became his steed. Toby, now calling himself Terra-Man after his planet of origin, traveled with the Collector for years, stealing for him as he had for his real father, but eventually his memories returned and he murdered the Collector to avenge his father. Terra-Man returned to Earth, only to discover that traveling at faster than light speeds had retarded his aging and that over a century had passed on the planet of his birth while he himself was still a comparatively young man. Still patterning himself on an Old West outlaw, he continued his criminal career on Earth, announcing his arrival by attacking Superman on his birthday. Terra-Man was defeated and jailed, but thanks to Nova, he was able to break himself out in a matter of days to seek a rematch with the Man of Steel. Terra-Man affected Superman with an artificial aging ray but was overcome when his air-filtering implant clogged up on an unusual form of air pollution. (Superman v1 #250)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Terra-Man was created by Cary Bates, Curt Swan and Dick Dillin where he made his first appearance in Superman v1 #249 (March, 1972).
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Superman: (1972)
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