Kirt Niedrigh

Kirt Niedrigh is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Kirt Niedrigh

With Vera discovered, he quickly beat her and placed the Durlan in the stasis cells so that he could absorb her powers later on. Afterwards, the Legion attacked the satellite with the goal of freeing their friends leading to Niedrigh deciding to use Vera's powers to shapeshift into her form. In this guise, he came before Colossal Boy allowing him to ambush him before fighting Superman. With Superman depowered, Kirt had the advantage with his large powerset leading to Superman forcing him through the window into space. (Action Comics v1 #862) As the sun was red, Earth-Man decided to destroy the Flight Ring of Superman so that he would die in the vacuum of space. However, at that point, Sun Boy was freed from captivity where he used his powers to change the sun back to yellow. This restored Superman to power where he took the fight with Niedrigh to Earth's surface where Kirt began to use his stolen powers against the Man of Steel. However, Superman was assisted by the freed Legion of Super-Heroes who helped him finally defeat Earth-Man thus ending the reign of xenophobia that had come to the planet and stopping the conflict with the United Planets. (Action Comics v1 #863)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Though he had met the young Superboy, he came to believe that Kal-El was inept and had only be chosen to join the Legion based on who he would become rather than based on who he was at the time. As such, he felt that Superman should have been rejected from the Legion rather than himself. (Action Comics v1 #862) He told Superman that he never knew what it was like to be rejected and being an outsider. (Action Comics v1 #863)

Notes

• Absorbency Boy was created by Cary Bates and Mike Grell where he made his first appearance in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes v1 #218 (July, 1976).
• The character was later re-invented as Earth-Man by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank where he made his first appearance in Action Comics v1 #858 (December, 2007).

Appearances

• Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes:
• Action Comics:
• Legion of Super-Heroes:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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