Doctor Cyber | |
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Doctor Cyber
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Wonder Woman #179 (November–December 1968) |
Created by |
Dennis O'Neil Mike Sekowsky Dick Giordano |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Cylvia Cyber, Adrianna Anderson |
Team affiliations | Secret Society of Super Villains |
Abilities | Body armor confers enhanced strength and invulnerability. The armor also allows Dr. Cyber to absorb energy and redirect it at an attacker, as well as to fire energy blasts from her hands. Additionally, the armor possesses an "invisibility cloak" as well as remote controls for Dr. Cyber's other weapons and devices, such as her sky-sled. |
Doctor Cyber is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, traditionally as an adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman. She first appeared in 1968 as the head of a vast global criminal and terrorist group in Wonder Woman, vol. 1, issue #179, written by Dennis O'Neil and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano. In her early appearances, Dr. Cyber was a beautiful and elegantly-attired woman. Later, after her face was disfigured in an accident, she donned a gold muzzle-mask and technologically advanced full-body exoskeleton. These cybernetic enhancements increased Cyber's physical strength, and gave her the ability to absorb and redirect energy, as well as to fire energy blasts from her hands. Despite the resulting upgrades to her power, Dr. Cyber's disfigurement also wrought a mounting emotional instability. She became obsessed with recapturing her beauty by transferring her mind into Wonder Woman's body, a project she attempted several times with the help of her operative Doctor Moon.
Doctor Cyber was the beautiful and commanding presence behind a global criminal network around the same time when Wonder Woman had relinquished her powers when her fellow Amazons retreated into another dimension. Prior to Cyber's first encounter with the depowered Amazon, her henchmen plundered the monastery of I Ching for the gems and precious metals within and slaughtered the resisting monks. Colonel Steve Trevor unsuccessfully attempted to infiltrate Cyber's network, but learned of their plot: to create chaos within the US Government by sending bombs inside toys to the children of Congressmen. This plot was actually a ruse to divert attention from a London jewel heist, foiled by Wonder Woman and I Ching. Doctor Cyber escaped only to resurface in Hong Kong several weeks later. (Wonder Woman #179-182 [November–December 1968—May–June 1969])