Amazing-Man (DC Comics)

Amazing-Man
Will Everett from All-Star Squadron #23, artist Jerry Ordway.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	(1940s) All-Star Squadron #23 (July 1983) (1990s) Justice League America #86 (March 1994) (2000s) Justice Society of America (vol. 3) #12 (March 2008) (2010s) OMAC #2 (vol. 3) (December 2011)
Created by	(1940s) Roy Thomas (writer) Jerry Ordway (artist) (1990s) Dan Vado (writer) Marc Campos (artist) (2000s) Geoff Johns (writer) Dale Eaglesham (artist) (2010s) Dan DiDio (writer) Keith Giffen (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	(1940s) William Blake "Will" Everett (1990s) William Blake "Will" Everett III (2000s) Markus Clay (2010s) Rocker Bonn
Team affiliations	(1940s) All-Star Squadron (1990s) Justice League (2000s) Justice Society of America (2010s) Checkmate
Abilities	(All) Ability to duplicate the properties of matter and energy via physical contact (Will Everett) Magnetic powers (Will Everett III) Energy absorption and duplication

Amazing-Man is the name used by four fictional characters published by DC Comics. The first three are African-American superheroes and are members of the same family. The first Amazing-Man debuted in All-Star Squadron #23 (July 1983), and was created by Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway. The second Amazing-Man debuted in Justice League America #86 (March 1994), and was created by Dan Vado and Marc Campos. The third Amazing-Man debuted in Justice Society of America (vol. 3) #12 (March 2008), and was created by Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham. The fourth Amazing Man debuted in OMAC (vol. 3) #2 (December 2011), and was created by Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen.

Although a 1980s creation of writer Roy Thomas, the Amazing-Man published by DC Comics was placed in the 1940s and made a contemporary of various Golden Age superheroes. The character was created by Roy Thomas as a tribute to Bill Everett's Amazing-Man, a character he created for Centaur Publications during the so-called Golden Age of comics.

Will Everett was a promising young African-American Olympian who had competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but his post-Olympic career devolved into a janitorial profession at a laboratory owned by Dr. Terry Curtis. During an accident involving the explosion of some equipment to which he was exposed (developed by the criminal mastermind the Ultra-Humanite), Everett quickly developed the ability to mimic whatever properties he touched (similar to Marvel Comics' Absorbing Man). For example, if he touched steel, then his body became composed of steel.