Commander Steel
| Commander Steel | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
(Hank Heywood) Steel, The Indestructible Man # 1 (March 1978) (Hank Heywood III) Justice League of America Annual #2 (1984) (Nathan Heywood) Justice Society of America (vol. 3) #1 (February 2007) |
| Created by |
(Hank Heywood) Gerry Conway (writer) Don Heck (artist) (Hank Heywood III) Gerry Conway (writer) Chuck Patton (artist) (Nathan Heywood) Geoff Johns Alex Ross |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Henry "Hank" Heywood Henry "Hank" Heywood III Nathan Heywood |
| Team affiliations |
(Hank Heywood) United States Marine Corps All-Star Squadron Shadow Fighters (Hank Heywood III) Justice League (Nathan Heywood) Justice Society of America |
| Notable aliases |
(Hank Heywood) Steel |
| Abilities |
(Hank Heywood) Cyborg, great strength, limited invulnerability, limited superspeed (Hank Heywood III) Superhuman strength, limited invulnerability, limited superspeed (Nathan Heywood) Superhuman strength, invulnerability, organic metal skin, superhuman speed |
Commander Steel (also Steel or Citizen Steel) is the name of three superheroes published by DC Comics, all members of the same family. The first Steel appeared in Steel, The Indestructible Man #1 (1978) published by DC Comics, and was created by Gerry Conway and Don Heck. His stories were set in World War II. The two later characters called Steel are his grandsons.
Steel first appeared in a series set in 1939, Steel: The Indestructible Man, written by Captain America writer Gerry Conway. The series was canceled after five issues, and Steel later made a guest-appearance in Justice League of America. Steel or Commander Steel also appeared in and was a member of the World War II era All-Star Squadron team. He made a prominent appearance many years later in four issues of the Eclipso ongoing series, where he was killed. After this, he appeared in issue #2 of the 2010 series, DC Universe: Legacies, which chronicled the superheroes of the 1940s.
Starting in 1984, the second Steel appeared as one of the lead characters in Justice League of America, until its cancellation during the Legends crossover in 1987. He made a single appearance several years later in issue #38 of Justice League America, a continuation of Justice League International, where he was killed off. In 2006, he played a leading posthumous role in a single story arc of JLA Classified, which chronicled a previously unrevealed adventure of the Detroit-era JLA. In 2010, he played a major role in the two-issue Justice League of America (vol. 2) tie-in to Blackest Night, where he was temporarily resurrected.
The third Steel made his debut in the 2007 relaunch of Justice Society of America, where he appeared for several years until the team was split into two separate groups by writers Bill Willingham and Matt Sturges, where he appeared as one of the lead characters in JSA All-Stars. In The New 52 he is shown to exist on Earth 2, under the name Captain Steel.
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