DR. WOLF TURBER
Earth-36292

Real Name: Inapplicable

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-36292) android

Occupation: Would-be conqueror;
    formerly dictator, doctor, sanitarium administrator

Group Membership: The Turber Sanitarium staff

Affiliations: The Duke of York, the Turber Sanitarium staff; possibly the British Army, the Hessian Army (all of Earth-616)

Enemies: San of Earth-49773;
    Earth-616 natives: Captain America (Jeff Mace), Alan Tremont, Nanette Tremont, George Washington

Known Relatives: Unidentified human scientists (creators)

Aliases: "Turber the Conqueror," "Turber the Traitor"

Base of Operations: Mobile throughout time via his tower;
    formerly the Turber Sanitarium, New Jersey, Earth-616 circa 1948-1949 A.D.; Earth-49773; Earth-36292

First Appearance: Captain America Comics I#73 (July, 1949)

Powers/Abilities: Dr. Wolf Turber was an android that resembled a human being on the outside but was entirely mechanical on the inside. While he did not display any superhuman abilities, Dr. Turber was prone to fits of raving madness due to being off current.

    He had full access to a tower that was capable of traveling to any point in the timestream. The tower also housed a large amount of machinery and Turber kept a supply of Metalite binding inside it.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'2")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 200 lbs.)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White

History:
(Captain America Comics I#73 (fb) - BTS) - Created circa 3010 A.D. on Earth-36292, the android that would later be known as Wolf Turber broke off current and went awry. Refusing to be dismembered and deactivated, the android stole a time-traveling tower and escaped into the timestream. Traveling to Earth-616 circa 1948 A.D., the android set himself up as a doctor named Wolf Turber and soon became administrator of the Turber Sanitarium in New Jersey. After treating patient Nanette Tremont, Turber ultimately proposed marriage to her but Nanette refused and stopped going to sanitarium out of fear of the increasingly erratic Dr. Turber.

    At some point afterwards, Wolf Turber became obsessed with conquering an entire world and making Nanette his queen. First traveling back into his own reality circa 2548 A.D., Turber succeeded in conquering the world, diverging Earth-49773 from the original Earth-36292 timeline. Quickly becoming a tyrannical dictator, Turber ruled a world at war and eventually, the rebels defeated Turber but he fled in his time-traveling tower, ranting about a girl in 1948 that would someday rule alongside him as his queen. Unaware that the rebels of 2548 A.D. were building a duplicate time tower based on his own, Turber returned to Earth-616's 1948 A.D. and began compiling notes on other time periods he could conquer instead such as Earth-616's 1649, 1780 and the future of the diverged Earth-49773 circa 3560 A.D (see comments).

(Captain America Comics I#73) - A year later, in July 1949, while Nanette Tremont's brother Alan and the superhero Captain America (Jeff Mace) were tinkering with a new television receiver, Dr. Turber stopped a taxicab housing Nanette at gunpoint and abducted Nanette, hitting the driver with the butt of his gun. He then escaped into the timestream as the police called Alan to inform him of Nanette's kidnapping. Both Alan and Captain America rushed to the scene of the crime, where the injured driver revealed that Nanette had screamed Dr. Turber's name. Knowing of Turber's obsession with Nanette following his failed marriage proposal, Alan informed Captain America and the two visited the Turber Sanitarium to question Dr. Turber. During Cap and Alan's attempts to gain entry into the sanitarium, Dr. Turber traveled back to 1780 A.D. circa the Revolutionary War, where his suspicious nature earned him the mistrust of George Washington, who wondered if Turber was perhaps a Hessian spy that consorted with the British Army. Turber next traveled to 1649 A.D., where he earned a traitorous reputation by plotting with the Duke of York before departing to another time period. Unaware that Captain America and Alan Tremont had gained entry and were investigating the Turber Sanitarium in 1949, Wolf Turber next traveled the future of the diverged Earth-49773 circa 3550 A.D., where he assaulted the domed city of Manhattan.

    Having traveled to 3550 A.D. themselves with the aid of the rebel San of Earth-49773's 2548 A.D. and his duplicate time-traveling tower, Captain America and Alan sought to confront Dr. Turber but after San was killed by falling rubble, Captain America and Alan knew they could not stay in 3550 A.D. long or they too would be killed. They soon spotted Dr. Turber dragging Nanette into his time tower to once more flee into the timestream. The two ran towards Turber but Alan was separated from Captain America by falling debris and took refuge in San's tower while Captain America jumped into Turber's tower just as Turber fled the destroyed city into the timestream. When Cap revealed his presence inside the tower, Turber ordered Cap to stay back, threatening to shoot Nanette if Cap did not comply. Turber then tied both Captain America and Nanette up with nearly-unbreakable Metalite bonds and soon noticed that Alan was pursuing him in the duplicate tower. Announcing that it would do Alan no good to follow him to the primitive world he hoped to next conquer, Wolf Turber proclaimed Nanette to be his queen and ranted about how the primitives would fear his power. As the tower passed Earth-49773's overgrown Manhattan of 50,000 A.D., Turber became more and more raving and erratic. Noticing Turber's strange behavior, Captain America asked to speak with Turber, who happily shared the story of how he fled his own time of 3010 A.D. in a stolen time tower. Arriving in Earth-49773's 2,001,948 A.D., the now-manic Turber dragged Nanette outside to see the dying world. Escaping his bounds by using the time tower's machines to destroy the Metalite, Captain America ran outside and punched Turber. Rather than a cry of pain, Cap heard only a buzzing hiss as Turber fell to the ground, mechanical parts spilling out of his head. Nanette screamed that Turber was not a human and Cap pointed to the parts on the ground, deducing that Turber had been a deranged robot created by man's scientific genius. Cap and Nanette then prepared to return to 1949 (see comments) in Turber's time tower to reunite with Alan.

Comments: Created by an uncredited writer and Ken Bald.

    It was unclear why Wolf Turber attacked Earth-49773 circa 3550 A.D. when he had compiled notes on 3560 A.D. Perhaps he had intended to rule over Earth-49773 by 3560 and he simply arrived in that reality ten years earlier, knowing that it would take a lot of time and warring to conquer it by 3560...

    While the future periods from 3550 A.D., 50,000 A.D., and 2,001,948 A.D. appear to be the same reality, it is not certain whether they are the future of Earth-49773. Barring significant evidence one way or the other, these futures are considered part of Earth-49773’s timeline. --Snood

    San mentions that Dr. Turber knew of a girl circa 1948, confirming that Turber had originally come to Earth-616 in 1948 A.D. and met Nanette as a patient of his sanitarium during that time. This information is also confirmed by Alan Tremont, who states that Nanette had been a patient of Turber's "a year ago," which also tracks, considering that the story with Turber was published in June 1949. However, despite these facts, at the end of story, Captain America mentions to Nanette about returning to 1948 even though they had actually traveled to the future from 1949, not 1948. So either Cap planned to return to his own era one year earlier than he left or he just misspoke, which can be forgiven, given all of the time travel nonsense he had just experienced...

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-36292's Wolf Turber should be distinguished from:

• any  other "Wolf" or "Turber" characters, or any other androids
  

Appearances:
Captain America Comics I#73 (July, 1949) - "The Outcast of Time!" story - uncredited writer, Ken Bald (art), uncredited editor

First posted: 10/06/2023
Last updated: 10/06/2023

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