Solus

SOLUS

Real Name: Solus

Class: Extraterrestrial

Occupation: Would-be ruler, former royalty

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: unnamed brother (deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile across space

First Appearance: Swamp Thing I #21 (February-March, 1976)

Powers: Like all members of his race Solus was extremely long lived, and a psionic master, able to manipulate mind, matter and energy through his touch. He traveled using a space platform that had a teleporter, and his control rod let him use his powers remotely anywhere on the platform. Solus had nodules implanted in his skin that would detonate if he were ever to touch planetary soil.

History: (Swamp Thing I #21) - Solus’ race were extraterrestrials with the power of gods, and he was royalty. When his brother rose to the throne he deemed him too weak to rule, and assassinated him, claiming it was his patriotic duty. His people despised his crime, and exiled him, setting him adrift on a self-sustaining space platform, and implanting nodules in his skin that would explode if he ever touched terrestrial soil. Solus was driven mad by ages of solitude, and traveled the galaxies abducting aliens to amuse him. He wanted science experiment subjects, diversions, and other beings to validate and feed his twisted ego. Solus began to think of his space platform and his slaves as his personal empire. He became enamored with Cellanth, one of his slaves, and repeatedly forced himself on her. Solus abducted Swamp Thing from Earth, and Cellanth used her charms to distract Solus long enough for Swamp Thing and his compatriots to escape their cells. Solus was furious, and used his psionic powers to force the prisoners to fight. He killed Cellanth, and immediately hated himself for murdering his “queen.” The prisoners ganged up on him, and he fell from the space paltform, hanging on for dear life. The prisoners damaged the space platform until it was ready to explode, and used his teleported to return to their own homeworlds. Swamp Thing felt pity for Solus, because he was an outcast himself, but when he tried to pull him back onto the platform, Solus attacked him. Unfortunately for Solus Swamp Thing’s body was made of terra firma, and the madman exploded.

Comments: Created by David Micheline & Nestor Redondo.