PROFESSOR X

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Criminal scientist

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile, Earth-12

First Appearance: Plastic Man I #1 (November, 1966)

Powers: Professor X’s high-tech tank had a cannon that shot powerful adhesives, thermal rays, acid and expanding metal bands. The tank was equipped with rockets and could fly.

History: (Plastic Man I #1) - Dr. Dome gave a soliloquy about his latest plan to destroy his archenemy Plastic Man, and his daughter Lyn reminded him that his psychiatrist warned him a bout talking to himself. She also chided him for taking up smoking, and said she could easily take out Plastic Man if he just asked her. Dome ignored her, and rang up criminal scientist Professor X, who he’d recently given three super weapons to perfect. X assured him the weapons, which he’d quipped into a hi-tech tank, were ready to go, but when Dome told him to use the tank to destroy Plastic Man X admitted he hadn’t worked all the bugs out in the weapons, and besides which he was afraid of Plas. Dome overruled his objections, and X confronted Plas at the pet shop of his friend Gordy Trueblood. The tank shot a powerful adhesive at Plas, gluing him to the sidewalk, but he turned his hands into a pick and shovel to free himself. Plas snaked his body into the tank’s treads, grinding the machine to a halt, and Dome ordered X to flee. X escaped using rockets attached to the tank. Professor X soon returned to confront Plas again, this time shooting acid from his tank. Plas fled and ran into Lynx, who invited him into her house to hide from X. Lynx thought it was unhealthy for her father to obsess over Plas, and was worried his fixation was bad for his health, so she was resolved to eliminate Plastic Man herself. She slipped him a mickey and threw him off a pier, but a fisherman dredged Plas up. Plas returned to high fight with X, whose tank shot several expanding metal bands that encircled the hero. Plas stretched into a barrel shape and ran straight into X’s tank, blowing it up. Captain McSniffe arrested X, but told Plas he still thought he was the real crook.

Comments: Created by Arnold Drake & Gil Kane.