Immortal Man

Immortal Man
Immortal Man, from Who's Who In The DC Universe
Publication information
Publisher	National Comics / DC Comics
First appearance	Strange Adventures #177 (June 1965)
In-story information
Team affiliations	Forgotten Heroes
Abilities	Immortality via reincarnation Superhuman strength Flight via telekinesis Minor pyrokinetic powers Limited hypnosis

Immortal Man is a superhero in the DC Comics Universe. He first appeared in National Comics (now DC Comics) flagship science fiction anthology comic Strange Adventures #177 (June 1965). Immortal Man was also a member of The Forgotten Heroes.

Immortal Man first appeared in "I lived a Hundred Lives" in Strange Adventures #177 (June 1965), an eight-page story drawn by Jack Sparling. It is not clear who created him. Although not a regular character in the title, Immortal Man then featured in Strange Adventures #185 in a 16-page tale and Strange Adventures #190 and #198 in 12-page tales. Jack Sparling drew all four adventures, and Dave Wood wrote at least two of them (#185 and #190). Immortal Man also featured on the covers to all four issues.

Following this he appeared with The Forgotten Heroes in Action Comics #552 - #553 (February - March 1984) by Marv Wolfman and Gil Kane and DC Comics Presents #77 - 78 (January - February 1985) by Marv Wolfman, Curt Swan and Dave Hunt (artist), a direct link into DC Comics major cross-over event Crisis on Infinite Earths. Nothing further was published until an appearance in Animal Man #23 (May 1990), The Flash vol 2 #48 - 50 (March - May 1991), written by William Messner-Loebs, and a final appearance written by Dan Abnett, with art by Andy Lanning, in Resurrection Man 25 - 27 (June - August 1999).

50,000 years ago the Immortal Man was Klarn, a caveman leader of the Bear Tribe, and a mortal enemy of Vandar Adg of the Wolf Clan. Vandar is made immortal by a meteorite while in battle with him, and Immortal Man fashions an amulet from a jewel from the same meteorite, a tektite, discovering it gives him the power of resurrection, super-strength and the ability to fly, along with other powers. Over the millennia Immortal Man has been a Babylonian, an Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Carthaginian, an Arab warrior and a knight, a Mongol and many other people. Each time he dies he comes back as someone else, sometimes as an adult, sometimes as a child, and throughout history he is the enemy of Vandar Adg - who later becomes known as Vandal Savage.