Miracle Machine

Miracle Machine
Interior artwork from Final Crisis 6 (Jan, 2009). Art by Carlos Pacheco.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Adventure Comics #367 (April 1968)
In story information
Type	Device
Element of stories featuring	Legion of Super-Heroes

The Miracle Machine is a fictitious device in the DC Comics universe. The machine first appeared in Adventure Comics #367, April 1968.

It was created by the Controllers no later than 1982, and given as a gift to the Legion of Super-Heroes in the late 30th century for their work in defeating a renegade Controller. It has the power to convert thoughts into reality.

Brainiac 5 has stated that the Machine's technology was reverse-engineered from that of the Guardians' Green Lantern tech (i.e. willpower in manipulable form), though this detail is only accurate in post-52 continuity. The dying New God Darkseid mockingly describes the Miracle Machine as a cargo cult Mother Box, highlighting the similarities between the two items in the DC Universe, able to provide seemingly limitless alteration of the most basic physics law at will.

The Miracle Machine had been featured in stories only four times in the pre-Crisis era DC Universe, and just twice in the post-Crisis era DC Universe, most recently at end of Final Crisis.

In Adventure Comics #367 (April 1968), Brainiac 5 first discovered its function and used it to repel an invasion of Earth by the Dark Circle and to create a new headquarters for the Legion. One of the Controllers briefly appeared and cautioned against its further use, saying a stray thought could cause catastrophe. The Legion sealed it inside an Inertron block, vowing only to use it for the direst of emergencies, or at a future date when mankind can use it wisely.

In Superboy #201 (March--April, 1974), the hero later known as Wildfire used the Miracle Machine to defeat a would-be assassin and robber.