History: (Kamandi #9, 10) - In the aftermath of the nuclear Great Disaster most of humanity perished, and the majority of survivors devolved into feral savages, while animals evolved intelligence. The Bat-Men lived in the blasted cracks and caves of what remained of Central America. They harassed the mutant scientists of Tracking Site, and the mutants created a sonic laseron to drive them back. Kamandi saved his friends Ben Boxer, Renzi and Steve from the mutant Misfit, who had them under his control, by shoving Misfit into Tracking Site's electric control, disabling him, but also the laseron. The Bat-Men were free to attack Tracking Site, and Misfit revived Ben and the other mutants, telling them that if the Bat-Men damaged the Morticoccus bacteria container he had stored at Tracking Site it would mean the end of life on Earth. Misfit was mauled by the Bats, and Kamandi took him to safety, placing him behind a steel door. Thousands of Bats poured in, despite Ben and the mutants best try at fighting them off, and they decided Tracking Site had to be abandoned. They realized Misfit was in the same room as the Morticoccus, and he was once again in control. He allowed only Kamandi in the room before shutting the door with his telekinesis, and bragged that when Morticoccus was released only he and his fellow mutants would inherit the Earth. He showed Kamandi a film of Morticoccus ravaging the humans from Tracking Site, infecting and killing Ben's father Hiram. Ben used a shaft beneath the room to rescue Kamandi, and they proceeded to activate the Site's magnetic-repulsion engine, sending it into space as they escaped on a hover-jet. Morticoccus escaped its' prison, killing Misfit and the Bats, but it was destined to starve in space with no more life to infect.

Comments: Created by Jack Kirby