Titano
Titano is a animal comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Toto was a male common chimpanzee selected to participate in an experimental space rocket mission scheduled to span an entire week. Whilst in space, a Green Kryptonite meteor collided with a passing Uranium meteor and the radiation from the combined elements washed across the space capsule, altering Toto's genetic structure. The space capsule returned to Earth, and Toto was seemingly unaffected by the radiation. Moments after exiting the capsule, however, his size and strength grew to epic proportions. Lois Lane was present at the scene covering the story of the space capsule landing with Toto recognizing her. As an act of affection, Toto scooped Lois into his paw and took off with her. It was at this point that Lois gave him the name of Titano. Titano began stalking through the streets of Metropolis with Lois in hand, inadvertently causing a considerable amount of property damage. Clark Kent, fearing for Lois' safety, changed to Superman and engaged Titano in combat. Much to the Man of Steel's lament, he learned that the radiation had given Titano another super-power - Green Kryptonite vision. Unable to withstand the effects of the Kryptonite, Superman had to back down. Lois came up with an ambitious plan to halt Titano's childlike rampage. Recalling the chimp's tendency to imitate the actions of humans, she manipulated Titano into donning a pair of over-sized lead-lined eyeglasses. Now Superman could deal with him without fearing the effects of Titano's Kryptonite vision. Superman hurled Titano into the timestream where he arrived in Earth's prehistoric past. (Superman v1 #127)
A time-warp resulted in Titano coming back to the present and becoming a menace to Metropolis. To help stop him, Jimmy Olsen used an enlarging serum to make himself a 'Colossal Boy' in order to fight the giant ape. Eventually, the giantess Allura comes to Earth and takes Titano back to her world, where he finds and falls in love with a female ape of his size. (Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen v1 #77)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Titano was a chimpanzee that came to be subject to experiments headed by Dr. Thomas Moyers. Secretly, this project was designed to create a superweapon for the U.S. government and Task Force X with the program being overseen by Sarge Steel. The experiments were conducted at a laboratory with Lois Lane covering the story and Amanda Waller present on site. Titano tried to escape his tormentors by leaping into Lane's arms. An accident caused the ape to gain super-strength and grow to enormous proportions. Attempting to kill Moyers, whom he saw as his tormentor, Titano was stopped by and engaged in a battle with Superman. The presence of Lane causes Titano to calm down, as he considered her a friend. Moyers used his equipment to reverse the transformation. The reversal is too much for the chimpanzee, who dies in Lane's arms. She later writes the Daily Planet article "Tears for Titano" in honor of the animal. (Superman Annual v2 #1)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Titano was created by Otto Binder and Curt Swan where he made his first appearance in Superman v1 #127 (February, 1959).
Alternate Versions
- In Adventure Comics v1 #295 (1962), an alternate version of Titano was shown to be an inhabitant of Bizarro World. Bizarro Titano was created by Bizarro in an effort to find a worthy opponent to beat to prevent the exile of Bizarro Lois No. 1. Through a time-scope, he trained the imperfect duplicator ray on Titano to create a copy that was also referred to as Big Ape. Titano entered the ring against Bizarro-Lois, and won by leaving the ring in a big hurry to go eat some coconuts he has spied from afar.
- In DC One Million 80-Page Giant v1 #1,000,000 (1999), an alternat version of Titano appeared in the DC One Million setting. Titano One Million was the Superman-like defender of the Gorilla Galaxy and was a direct descendant of Solovar.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Superman v1: (1959)
- Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen v1:
- Superman Annual v2:
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