Suneaters
| Sun-Eater | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Adventure Comics #352 (January 1967) |
| Created by | Jim Shooter |
A Sun-Eater is a fictional, artificially-created living weapon in the DC Comics universe. It has played an important role in various storylines.
The Sun-Eater first appeared in Adventure Comics #352 and was created by Jim Shooter
A Sun-Eater is a living nebula with the ability to drain whole stars of all their energy; this snuffs out the star and causes its planetary system to freeze (and all living beings in it to die). The Sun-Eaters were created by the alien race known as Controllers as a way to destroy entire worlds that they judged to be too "evil." Each Sun-Eater was kept in a dormant state until needed, watched over by a Controller.
A creature called a Sun-Eater was depicted as a minor character in the Legion story in Adventure Comics #305 (February, 1963); it was a fiery green humanoid that roams through space, feeding on solar bodies, absorbing their heat and energy. In a brief vignette, the creature is driven off by Mon-El's heat vision.
Another entity called the Sun-Eater (also called "It") was first seen in Adventure Comics #352 (Jan. 1967), in a story that took place in the 30th century, the setting of the Legion of Super-Heroes, by writer Jim Shooter. To stop the colossal nimbus from ravaging the Milky Way Galaxy, the Legion recruited some of the worst criminals in the Galaxy to help them (these criminals would stay together to form the Fatal Five afterwards). But in the end, only one way to stop it was found: an "Absorbatron" bomb would have to be detonated inside its core. Only Superboy was invulnerable enough to deliver the bomb inside, but he had been weakened by radiation inside the Sun-Eater (from the red suns it had already consumed). Ferro Lad, a new addition to the Legion who possessed the power to turn into living iron, could resist going inside the Sun-Eater, but not the bomb's explosion. Heroically, he stole the bomb and delivered it anyway, killing himself and destroying the Sun-Eater, thereby saving the galaxy.
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