Rattler

RATTLER

Real Name: Unrevealed

Class: Human

Occupation: Mobster

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Capitol City, 1940s era

First Appearance: Plastic Man #17 (Quality) (May, 1949)

Powers: Rattler was vicious and armed with firearms. He was severely deformed and resembled a rattlesnake with his forked tongue, elongated neck and scaly complexion.

History: (Plastic Man #17) - Remorseless killer Rattler was confronted by Plastic Man, who rounded up his gang, but Rattler and his girlfriend Tina escaped when Uno brought them aboard his time machine. Uno was from the year four million A.D. and was looking for people to recolonize the future after a massive plague devastated mankind. Rattler thought he was a crackpot, and after Tina learned how to operate the time machine they turned on Uno. Plastic Man pursued Rattler, who used Uno’s disintegrator ray to turn Plas into a puddle. Uno reversed the beam to restore Plas, and the restored Plas captured Rattler. Tina left Rattler to go to the future with Uno, because she’d fallen in love with him.

Comments: Created by Bill Woolfolk & Jack Cole

In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Rattler lived on Earth-2. Rattler, like most characters from the golden age Plastic Man stories, may or may not be a part of post-Crisis DC continuity.

Rattler was originally a Quality Comics character, which DC obtained the rights to in 1956.