Cobalt Man
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Cobalt Man
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men #31 (April, 1967) |
| Created by |
Roy Thomas Werner Roth |
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| Alter ego | Ralph Roberts |
| Team affiliations | Emissaries of Evil |
| Abilities | Power armor |
Cobalt Man (Ralph Roberts) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Cobalt Man was created by writer Roy Thomas and penciller Werner Roth in X-Men #31 (April, 1967).
The character subsequently appears in X-Men #34 (July 1967), #79 (December 1973), The Incredible Hulk #173-175 (March–May 1974), The Defenders #42-43 (December 1976-January 1977), Hulk: Nightmerica #1 (August 2003), Avengers/Thunderbolts #1 (May 2004), and Civil War #1 (July 2006), in which he died. He appeared posthumously in Marvel Spotlight Civil War: Aftermath #1 (March 2007).
A Skrull version of Cobalt Man, for the Secret Invasion storyline, appears in Captain Marvel #2-3 (February–March 2008).
Cobalt Man received an entry in the Marvel Legacy: The 1970s Handbook #1 (2006).
Ralph Roberts was an inventor who had been studying the effects of nuclear radiation involving cobalt. He sought to use this as a weapon and built a cobalt suit of armor in imitation of Iron Man's, and called himself the Cobalt Man. At the time, Ralph's younger brother Ted Roberts was dating Jean Grey. Ralph Roberts took Ted, Jean, and Scott Summers on a tour of his lab, and when he showed Ted his armor he became destructive, and when Scott and Jean fought the Cobalt Man he buried them under rubble. As he was becoming more unstable, the X-Men fought and defeated him, and he realized that the armor was too dangerous to use. However, Tyrannus soon kidnapped him to force him to build a giant super-cobalt robot. The X-Men fought Tyrannus and rescued Roberts and returned him to the surface world.
He later achieved superhuman size and power due to radiation. This ends up slowly killing him; addled, he decides to show the world the dangers of nuclear power by destroying himself and the city of Sydney, Australia. In a confrontation with the Hulk, he seemingly dies, safely away from the Earth. While on a mission with Egghead's Emissaries of Evil, he appeared to have been killed in a nuclear explosion.
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