Chameleon Boy
| Chameleon Boy | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
Action Comics #267 (August 1960) |
| Created by |
Jerry Siegel Jim Mooney |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Reep Daggle |
| Species | Durlan |
| Place of origin | Durla |
| Team affiliations | Legion of Super-Heroes |
| Notable aliases | Chameleon |
| Abilities | Shapeshifting |
Chameleon Boy (Reep Daggle), also known as Chameleon, is a DC Comics superhero, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. He first appeared in Action Comics #267 (August 1960).
Reep Daggle is from the planet Durla, where everyone has the power to change their physical form.This was an adaption to survive an all-out thermonuclear war that reverted Durlan civilization to a primitive level. He has orange skin, pointed ears and antennae, and has no hair in his usual humanoid form, although both his name and usual shape were forced on him by Earthgov's immigrations officers. In pre-Zero Hour continuity, he was the son of Legion financer R. J. Brande, who was revealed to be a Durlan who had become frozen in human form after contracting a disease. and a female Durlan named Zhay Reep did not learn that Brande was his father for many years (Brande's name was originally revealed to be Ren Daggle, but later altered after the Crisis storyline). Reep and his twin sibling Liggt were raised by their maternal aunt Ji, until he and his brother were forced to battle to the death for the Durlan Right of Survival, which Reep won. Growing into his teens, Reep began to understand that Durlans with their protean abilities generally were not trusted and were otherwise ill treated among humans. Reep decided that he should counter this attitude by providing a positive example of his species as a superhero. To do so, he applied for membership in the Legion, and the organization was pleased to recruit him in sympathy with his social aims. Chameleon Boy was also an exceptional detective; his deductive prowess coupled with his shapeshifting abilities led to his being named the permanent head of the Legion's Espionage Squad.
Chameleon Boy was sentenced to incarceration on the prison world Takron-Galtos for his espionage activities against the Khunds, which almost led to war. He was released after his heroics against rogue Daxamite Ol-Vir in the Great Darkness Saga. During his incarceration, he was forced to wear binders on his antennae that canceled his shape-shifting powers, although he regained them a few months later when father and son reconciled in a pilgrimage to Durla to visit a sacred temple which regenerated lost shape-shifting abilities.(His father declined the opportunity to regain Durlan powers) Following the dissolution of the Legion after volume 3, bored by running Brande Industries, (for his wandering father) "Cham" became the primary force behind the reassembly of the Legion in volume 4.
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