He was later given enhanced powers by the demon Neron in exchange for his soul. He has plagued Superman, whom he believed to be the serial's villain Doctor Electron (particularly when Superman had currently acquired electricity-based powers), and Lois Lane, whom he saw as the Skull's love interest, Zelda Wentworth. He also emitted dangerous amounts of radiation, later gaining the ability to project it as energy blasts.
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Later attacked by some thugs, the resulting brain damage caused insanity, and he took on the guise of "the Atomic Skull" who was a hero from an old movie serial that he loved. Labs for a routine check-up when it was struck by an intense blast of energy from the Dominators' gene-bomb that gave him superhuman strength and caused his flesh to become invisible. He also appeared in the miniseries Villains United, where he joined Luthor's Society. Michaels returned in 2007 in Birds of Prey. Labs and SKULL remained as established in The DC Comics Encyclopedia.
It is not known if he ever fought the Post- Crisis version of Superman before, as his first (Post- Crisis) appearance was in Captain Atom, yet his history with S.T.A.R. It is assumed that his background has not changed, although instead of being diagnosed with a nervous disorder, it was said that his powers came because he sought immortality and presumably mutated himself. Swearing revenge, the evil genius donned his distinctive yellow and green costume with its visored, cowl-topped skull mask, called himself the Atomic Skull, and eventually became the organization's leader, flying around in a sleek skull-shaped hovercraft of his own design and assisted by his similarly costumed lover Felicia, who was a panther that he had artificially evolved into human form.įollowing Crisis on Infinite Earths, Michaels made one appearance, battling Thunder and Lightning in Teen Titans Spotlight. However, these mental blasts were difficult to control and only made his condition worse, a situation that he blamed on Superman after the Man of Steel captured the only SKULL scientists who could have cured him. When he could not find a cure, he secretly contacted the criminal organization SKULL, and they implanted him with a radium-powered device designed to harness his neural disorder into deadly atomic "brain-blasts" in exchange for him becoming their agent. Labs with a rare nervous system disorder that short-circuited the electrical impulses in his brain, creating painful and uncontrollable seizures. The Joseph Martin version of the Atomic Skull first appeared in The Adventures of Superman #483, and was created by Roger Stern and Bob McLeod.įictional character biography Albert Michaels Īlbert Michaels was a brilliant, but genuinely unfriendly scientist-administrator at S.T.A.R.
The Albert Michaels version of the Atomic Skull first appeared in Superman #323 (May 1978), and was created by Martin Pasko and Curt Swan. The Atomic Skull is a supervillain in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an enemy of Superman. Superhuman strength, stamina, and durability.The Adventures of Superman #483 (October 1991) The Albert Michaels incarnation of Atomic Skull as depicted in Who's Who in the DC Universe #1 (March 1985).
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