Ultra-Humanite

ULTRA-HUMANITE

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Scientist, criminal

Group Affiliation: Secret Society of Super-Villains

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Action Comics #13 (June, 1939)

Powers: Ultra-Humanite could teleport his brain into different bodies and was an extraordinary inventor. In his ape body he possessed superhuman strength and telekinetic powers.

History: A lab accident gave the Ultra-Humanite his powers and he pitted himself against various mysterymen during the early 1940s'.

<1942> After his seeming death his henchmen transplanted his brain into the body of actress Dolores Winters. He gave powers to Amazing-Man I, Cyclotron and Deathbolt and attempted to extort millions from the government. Amazing-Man and Cyclotron turned against him and helped the All-Star Squadron defeat him.

Deathbolt transplanted Ultra's brain into a captive tyrannosaurus rex. Ultra rampaged across Manhattan before being stopped by Fury I.

Ultra teleported his brain into a mutated ape's body and formed the Secret Society of Super-Villains. The Society battled the JLA and the JSA.

(JSA #37 (fb, BTS) - The Humanite engineered an explosion that killed the Crimson Avenger.

(JSA Secret Files #2) - Humanite became an ally of the Council. At their cloning factory in Austria he had his brain transferred from his ape-body into a machine. Black Canary and Wildcat of the JSA later raided the factory and discovered Humanite’s brainless ape-body.

(JSA #29 (BTS), 32, 33-36 (BTS), 37) - The Ultra-Humanite took possession of Johnny Thunder’s mind, and after convincing Johnny’s old teammates the JSA that he had been miraculously cured of Alzheimer's he took back the Thunderbolt from J.J. Thunder. Humanite used the Thunderbolt to conquer the world, creating his own version of utopia, free of crime or strife but filled with citizens who had no free will. He imprisoned virtually every superhuman on Earth in stasis tubes, only reviving them when he needed mind-controlled slaves to serve in his personal guard the Thunderfront. He used Sentinel’s green-flame body to power his futuristic Emerald City. His rule was brought to an end when some heroes escaped to form a ragtag version of the JSA. Mr. Terrific of the JSA used head games against the Humanite, confronting him with illusions of all of the Humanite’s past identities. The Humanite realized he didn’t even remember what his real name was anymore, and while distracted the JSA grounded the Thunderbolt, ending his control over both Thunder and the Thunderbolt. Crimson Avenger II located Humanite’s brain hiding in his sanctum in the Emerald City and blew it away with her cursed guns, avenging the death of the original Crimson Avenger.

Comments: Created by an unnamed writer and Joe Shuster.

Ultra-Humanite received profiles in Who's Who: the Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #24, Who's Who Update '88 #4 and JSA Secret Files #2. He received a profile in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #20 under the Secret Society of Super-Villains entry.

In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Ultra-Humanite lived on Earth-2 and was an adversary of Earth-2's Superman.

A statue of Ultra-Humanite was seen in the JSA Museum in JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice.