Titanium Man

Titanium Man (Cody)
Titanium Man Variant cover for War Machine #1. Art by Mike Deodato.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Tales of Suspense #69 (September 1965)
Created by	Stan Lee (Writer) Don Heck (Artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	(I) Boris Bullski (II) Kondrati "Gremlin" Topolov
Team affiliations	(I) KGB Green Liberation Front Titanic Three Secret Defenders (II) Soviet Super-Soldiers
Notable aliases	(I) Boris the Merciless, the Other, the Commander
Abilities	(Boris Bullski): Enhanced strength (Gremlin): Accomplished genetic engineer Superhuman intelligence Ability to create advanced devices and weapons (Both): Armored suit grants: Superhuman strength Supersonic flight Concussive blasts Projection of constrictive force "rings" and electromagnetically paralytic beams Resistance to conventional artillery

The Titanium Man ("Chelovek-Titan") is the name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The original Titanium Man first appeared in Tales of Suspense #69 (September 1965). He was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck.

Boris Bullski was born in Makeyevka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. According to the Black Widow, he was a KGB-member when he was a young man, and she was his combat instructor for a time. An ambitious official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Boris Bullski was demoted after displeasing his superiors.

While working as an administrator of a Siberian labor camp, he commissioned the imprisoned scientists at the camp to build a suit of armor using the lab of Anton Vanko, the creator of the original Crimson Dynamo armor. Seeking to win back the Party's favor, Bullski conceived the idea of winning a propaganda victory against the West by defeating the American superhero Iron Man. He assigned the scientists to create a powerful suit of titanium armor based on the Iron Man technology, though the inferior resources available to the scientists meant that the armor was twice the size of Iron Man's. Bullski received permission to issue his challenge and Iron Man accepted, defeating Titanium Man in a battle before a worldwide television audience.

Undaunted, Bullski prepared for a rematch by having the suit redesigned and undergoing medical treatments that increased both his size and strength. Traveling to the United States, Bullski fought Iron Man in the skies above Washington, D.C. but was defeated. Withdrawing for retrieval by a Soviet submarine, he discovered that he had been abandoned on orders from Moscow. After working for the Vietnamese Communist scientist Half-Face (who increased his power yet again) for a while, he returned to the service of the Government of the Soviet Union, and was dispatched to the United States to retrieve the third Crimson Dynamo. Finding the Dynamo at Cord Industries, a three-way battle between Titanium Man, Crimson Dynamo, and Iron Man began, during which Titanium Man killed Janice Cord with an electronic beam. Enraged, Iron Man soundly defeated Titanium Man, and left him in the murky depths of the Hudson River.