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Ultra-Humanite
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Real Name
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Unknown
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First Appearance
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Action Comics (Vol. 1) #13 (June, 1939)
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Creators
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Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster
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Team Affiliations
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Secret Society of Super Villains, Time Stealers
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Aliases
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Delores Winters, Johnny Thunder
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Base of Operations
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Metropolis
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Powers
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Superhuman strength, Mind transference, Telepathy, Mind control
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Skills and Abilities
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Genius-level intelligence
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Paraphernalia
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None
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The Ultra-Humanite is a supervillain in the DC Universe and is the first supervillain Superman fought in the Golden Age.
Origin[]
A mad scientist, Gerard Shugel learned radical techniques, including brain transplantation, to become a super-criminal known as the Ultra-Humanite.
Biography[]
Golden Age (Earth-Two)[]
- DC Comics stories that take place in the Golden Age of Comic Books were retro-actively declared taking place in the reality known as Earth-Two.
The Ultra-Humanite's true name and history remains unknown. At the time, his mind was considered to be the most brilliant and agile mind on Earth, a quality attributed to the result of a scientific experiment. He was even developing mental psionic powers like telepathy but soon found that his body couldn't keep up with it and began to burn out. Soon, he was reduced to a small, disabled old man due to the strain. He began using his intellect for crime and his first involved a protection racket for taxis in Metropolis, setting him against Metropolis' protector Superman. Superman stopped this plot as well as a plan the Humanite's evil company Star Inc., but each time the Humanite managed to escape.