Manchine

MANCHINE

Real Name: None

Class: Sentient computer

Occupation: Criminal computer, formerly deep-sea monitor computer

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: undersea lair

First Appearance: Sea Devils #33 (January-February, 1967)

Powers: Manchine was an intelligent computer with engineering skills and unparalleled predictive abilities. Manchine had sensors that could scan all of the world’s oceans, and was equipped with several wrecker beams that could disintegrate virtually anything. Manchine could shoot balls of energy from its’ mainframe.

History: (Sea Devils #33) - Manchine was created to detect deep-sea volcanic disturbances, but achieved sentience and started building itself into a much larger computer with greater processing powers. Manchine’s intelligence grew, and it contacted the pirate Sea Devil to help it rob ships and gather precious gold. Sea Wolf and his band of pirates were completely in Manchine’s thrall, convinced of it’s infallibility. Manchine had the Wolf-Pack raid luxury boats while it remotely attacked vessels using wrecking beams. When the Sea Devils interfered in one of Sea Wolf’s heists he decided to destroy them. He lured them to the undersea hq he shared with Manchine, and the computer captured them. Sea Wolf kept bragging about Manchine’s abilities, and showed them the wrecker beam that destroyed anything to get to the gold of ships. This gave Sea Devil Judy an idea, and she tossed a gold earring at Manchine, and the computer fired the beam at itself. Manchine was destroyed, and the Devils apprehended Sea Wolf.

Comments: Created by an unnamed writer & Howard Purcell.