ARMORER

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Extraterrestrial

Occupation: Technician

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Limbo, 30th Century

First Appearance: Legion of Super-Heroes III #7 (February, 1985)

Powers: The Armorer ran machines that controlled an entire planed staffed by robots and dedicated to manufacturing Sun-Eaters. The Armorer possessed superhuman strength and durability and could fire psionic bolts.

History: (Legion of Super-Heroes III #7, 8) - The Controllers gutted an entire planet, turning it into a giant factory, and sent it to limbo. The planet’s control center operated machinery and robots to fulfill the purpose of the planet for the Controllers; manufacturing Sun-Eaters. Their servant the Armorer was tasked with running the planet. Chameleon Boy, Element Lad, Phantom Girl, Shrinking Violet and Ultra Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes were stranded in limbo and came across the planet. They observed a Controller having a discussion with the Armorer before using a stargate to warp to another planet. The Legionnaires saw a stargate labeled with an icon of Earth, but they knew they couldn’t simply return home with the threat the Sun-Eaters being produced posed to the entire universe. The Legionnaires ripped apart the solar feeders that powered the growing Sun-Eater and used them to destroy the control center, but concluded that they still might have to destroy the entire planet, and their only way home because there were hundreds of facilities where the Controllers could start all over again. A giant security robot incapacitated Ultra Boy Element Lad and Chameleon Kid with a molecular attractor, but Phantom Girl phased and Shrinking Violet shrunk to avoid the attack. The robot brought the Legionnaires back to the Armorer, who was shocked when scanning his data banks he learned that the Legion had defeated a rogue Controller. He could conceive of no power great enough to conquer his masters. The Legionnaires revived, and Element Lad turned the robot into a puddle of mercury. He demanded the Armorer tell him why the Controllers were creating Sun-Eaters but the Armorer replied that the powers and motives of the Controllers were beyond human conception. Chameleon Boy morphed his form into that of a Controller, and chided the Armorer, who knelt before him, allowing Ultra Boy to knock him out from behind. Phantom Girl and Shrinking violet met up with the rest of their teammates, saying they’d come up with a plan to destroy the planet and still return home. Element Lad turned the Armorer’s base into nuclear explosive material, and as they entered the stargate to Earth, with the Armorer in tow, Ultra Boy threw a ten pound rock of fissionable material behind them, blowing up the planet.

Comments: Created by Paul Levitz & Steve Lightle.

The Armorer's appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes III #7, 8 reprinted in Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #332, 333.