Dronndarians

DRONNDARIANS

Class: Extradimesnionals (Dronndar)

Known Representatives: Junn, Kantor

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Dronndar

First Appearance: Justice League of America I #125 (December, 1975)

Powers: Using transmission facilities Dronndarians could transport their intellect and lugons of energy to other dimensions. The transport could not move organic matter, so the Dronndarians had to inhabit inanimate objects, which they could bring to life, and the lugons of energy had to be filtered through native organics. The energy they could transport had a tendency to be short-circuited by water.

History: (Justice League of America I #125, 126) - Lugons of energy built up in the Dronndarians dimension and threatened to reach critical mass. To siphon off the energy three Dronndarians used their transmission facilities to send their minds to Earth. Their intellects inhabited statues of Julius Cesear, Benjamin Franklin and Napolean, and offered underworld figures a chances for a one-time use of unlimited power. Each time a criminal used the transmitted lugons of energy to murder a rival or commit a crime, Dronndarr gained more time before exploding. The Dronndarians approached Batman nemesis Two-Face, but his schizophrenic personality made him turn down the offer in hopes of saving Earth. Two-Face alerted the JlofA, and the Dronndarians staged a riot at Oceanside Prison led by “Bull” Langdon to distract them. The Leaguers prevailed once they learned that water short-circuited the lugons. They confronted the Dronndarians, who fled from their animated statues and returned home. The Dronndarians realized they had failed, even if the League hadn’t intervened they hadn’t siphoned off nearly enough energy to save their world. They went to the Anti-Matter Universe and contracted the Weaponers of Qward to save their world by destroying Earth with a massive burst of lugon energy. The Qwardians employed Two-Face, who’d decided to turn against the League, to attach Dronndarian power blast devices to each of the Leaguers, and tell them about their planned attacks on Bomnn, Sydney and Toronto. The JlofA released more and more lugons of energy into Earth as they battled and overcame the Qwardians, but Atom realized the Qwardian scheme and Two-Face’s betrayal. He alerted his teammates and they allowed the Qwardians to beat them until the last of their lugon energy was siphoned back to Dronndar. GL used his power ring to observe the Dronndarians final fate, as their world exploded they evolved into beings of pure energy to survive.

Comments: Created by Gerry Conway, Dick Dillin & Frank McLaughlin