Ultraman (DC Comics)

This article is about the DC Comics supervillains. For the 1940s era All-American Comics superheroes, see Ultra-Man. For the DC Comics teenage superhero, see Ultra Boy.
Ultraman
The Pre-Crisis Earth-Three Ultraman as depicted in Convergence: Crime Syndicate #1 (April 2015). Art by Phil Winslade (pencils and inks) and Lovern Kindzierski (colors).
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceJustice League of America #29 (August 1964)
Created byGardner Fox
Mike Sekowsky
(based upon Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster)
In-story information
Alter egoClark Kent
Clark Luthor
Kal-ll (New 52 Earth 3)
Kal-El (Infinite Frontier Earth 3)
Team affiliationsCrime Syndicate of America (Earth-Three)
Crime Syndicate (Qward)
Crime Syndicate of Amerika (Anti-Matter Earth)
Crime Society of America (Earth-3)
Abilities
See list
    • Superhuman strength, endurance, hearing, speed, agility and reflexes
    • Superhuman vision
      • Heat vision
      • Electromagnetic spectrum vision
      • Microscopic vision
      • X-ray vision
      • Telescopic vision
      • Infrared vision
    • Superhuman breath
      • Freeze and wind breath
      • Accelerated healing
    • Invulnerability
    • Flight

Ultraman is the name of several supervillains appearing in stories published by DC Comics. The characters are all evil or corrupted alternate-universe counterparts of Superman. Ultraman first appeared in Justice League of America #29 (August 1964).[1]

  1. ^ Greenberger, Robert (2008). "Crime Syndicate". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The DC Comics Encyclopedia. New York: Dorling Kindersley. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7566-4119-1. OCLC 213309017.