D-MACHINE
Classification: Terrestrial
technology
Creator: Black Panther
(T'Challa)
User/Possessors: Black Panther
(T’Challa), Captain
America (Steve Rogers)
First
Appearance: Avengers I#76 (May,
1970)
Powers/Abilities/Functions: The D-Machine was
designed to transport
its user into another dimension using a large amount of energy intake.
It was
also equipped with a force field to allow only the user inside the
field to
be transported and to keep the Machine's energy intake contained within
the
Machine itself.
History:
(Avengers
I#76) –
In an attempt to rescue the Scarlet
Witch and defeat the Polemachus native Arkon, the Black Panther hastily
designed the D-Machine, a device to traverse dimensions. Upon its
completion,
the Black Panther tested the device on himself, with Captain America at
the
controls. As Quicksilver and the Vision watched, the Black Panther
ordered Cap
to hit the power switch and the D-Machine began to absorb the ambient
energy
around it. Contained with the D-Machine's force field, the Black
Panther was
bombarded by the D-Machine's harsh energy intake and he quickly realized
that the
D-Machine's power supply was too unstable. Quicksilver hastily tried to
rescue
the Black Panther but was deflected by the D-Machine's force field,
eventually
forcing Captain America to use his shield to destroy the D-Machine's
controls
and free the Black Panther. Deciding that the D-Machine was too
unstable, the
Avengers abandoned the destroyed Machine in favor of another option
that they
would need time to come up with.
Comments: Created by Roy
Thomas, John Buscema and
Tom Palmer.
Profile
by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The D-Machine has no known connections to
- D and D, two Goth high school students,
planned to blow up school @ Brotherhood#1
- D-Generation (Southpaw, others), superhuman group @ She-Hulk I#7
- D-Man, super-strong Captain America ally,
a.k.a. Demolition-Man @ Thing I#28
- Jimmy D, one of a large group of people
posing as Spider-Man @ Spider-Man Special: Black & Blue
& Red All Over#1
- or any other "D-" or "Machine"
characters or items
images: (without ads)
Avengers I#76, p1, splash page (The D-Machine, with Captain America at
the
controls, main image)
Avengers I#76, p2, pan2 (Black Panther inside the D-Machine’s energy
field,
supplemental image)
Appearances:
Avengers I#76 (May, 1970) – Roy Thomas (writer), John Buscema (art),
Tom Palmer
(inks), Stan Lee (editor)
Any
Additions/Corrections? please
let me know.
Last
Updated:
02/07/13
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