History
John Aman was an orphaned infant that was brought to a secret fortress located in the Tibetan mountains in the year 1920.[1] There, he grew up and was trained by a group of mystics known as The Council of Seven. Upon completing his training, Aman is sent out to America in 1939[1] where he fought crime as Amazing Man and befriended Zona Henderson.[2] Unknown to him, one of the Council's mystics, The Great Question, was secretly and gradually taking control of his mind.[3][4]
At some point, Amazing Man resisted the control and continued to fight against the Great Question for decades. Aman assisted Chalice in 1956, to stop a rogue Russian submarine.[5] In 1986, weeks before the Brinkston incident, Amazing Man severely injured Great Question.[3] Ironically, due to his injuries, Great Question was not able to go to Brinkston, Virginia with the other Supranormal villains (who eventually became trapped in another dimension in the resulting fight), and remained on Earth to set the events of the Protectors series in motion.[3] In the process, this allowed Great Question to once again secretly take control of Amazing Man's mind after Brinkston, but prior to the formation of the Protectors. As a result, Amazing Man became prone to berserk rages as his subconscious was trying to free himself from Great Question's control,[3] and so Aman had himself voluntarily checked in at the Cherry Hill Sanitarium for the world's safety.[2]
In 1991, Clay Carter was sent to recruit John Aman for the government-backed superteam The Protectors.[2] While the recruiting was successful, Amazing Man became a danger to the team as he still had periodic outbursts of berserk rages.[6]Attributes
Powers
- Superhuman Strength: John Aman is the most powerful of the Protectors in terms of physical strength, and can lift a tank over his head and throw it fifty feet.[1]
- Superhuman Durability: Although not fully invulnerable, Aman has durable skin that makes him resistant to some damage,[1] as he is shown withstanding energy beams with the power to damage the Washington Monument. However the hit from the energy beam caused him to bleed after the fight.[7]
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John Aman's durability
- Regenerative Healing Factor:Amazing Man's wounds can fully heal after two days.[7]
- Flight: John Aman has the ability to fly,[8][3] though since he's rarely shown using it during the course of the Protectors series, there's no confirmation of what his limits were.
- Teleportation: This version of John Aman is able to teleport for short distances, but only to a spot he can see.[2][1]
Notes
- This version of Amazing Man is based on the Golden Age Amazing Man, created by Bill Everett. However, throughout the course of the Protectors series, this version of Amazing Man rarely uses the Green Mist power that the Golden Age version and the Earth-616 version do. In Protectors #2, Amazing Man turns to mist in order to teleport to a car, but it's not depicted as green mist, and in the Protectors Handbook that power is simply described as limited teleportation.
- Additionally, the teleportation capabilities of Earth-1136's John Aman are limited compared to his Earth-616 counterpart's. The Earth-616 Aman was shown teleporting from China to New York City with ease.[9]
- A footnote in Protectors #19 refers back to "the very first Golden Age A-Man story," indicating that a version of Amazing-Man Comics #5 is part of Earth-1136's continuity. However, in the original Golden Age story, John Aman was chosen by the Council of Seven in 1914, as opposed to 1920 on Earth-1136.
Trivia
See Also
- 29 appearance(s) of John Aman (Earth-1136)
- 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of John Aman (Earth-1136)
- 2 mention(s) of John Aman (Earth-1136)
- 5 image(s) of John Aman (Earth-1136)