Planet Man (supervillain, Spider-Man Magazine)

PLANET MAN

Real Name: None

Identity/Class: Cosmic entity (fringe character)

Occupation: Force of nature, supervillain

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Asteroid Man, Laser, Meteor Man, Milky Way Man, Pluto Man, Sun Man, numerous others across the universe

Known Relatives: Inapplicable

Aliases: "Supernova" (see comments)

Base of Operations: The voids between physical realms and mobile throughout the galaxy

First Appearance: Spider-Man Magazine (I#12) (Spring, 1995)

Powers/Abilities: Planet Man is effectively immortal, allowing him to essentially live forever. He exists as the physical manifestation of the negative/evil forces of the cosmos and draws power from the larger universal forces, granting him superhuman strength taken from the planets Saturn and Venus combined. The more evil that exists across the universe, the stronger and larger Planet Man becomes and if evil is lessened to an extensive degree, Planet Man stops existing in the physical sense, only to reappear alongside evil.

Height: Variable
Weight: Variable
Eyes: Inapplicable
Hair: None

History: (unpublished story (fb) - BTS) - Planet Man was a force of nature that existed since the creation of the universe. He was an extension and physical manifestation derived from dark matter that exists in empty pockets of space. For all of eternity, he had siphoned negative energy from the galaxy, moving from place to place. During periods of extensive evil and negative energy, he could draw enough power to create physical manifestations that threaten entire planets and solar systems. These manifestations and the cosmic battles with other primordial beings resulted in at least seven near-extinction events on Earth alone in times past.

(Spider-Man Magazine (I#12)) - During his battles against other primordial beings, Planet Man became enemies with Asteroid Man, Meteor Man, Laser, Pluto Man, Sun Man and Milky Way Man.

Comments: Created by Christopher Hoffert.

Planet Man was a product of the 1994 Spider-Man Magazine's "Create Your Own Super Hero or Super-Villain" section that ran in most earlier issues of Spider-Man Magazine. In Planet Man's case, he was created by then-12-year-old Christopher Hoffert of Belgrade, Montana. As a fringe character, Planet Man was not confirmed to exist on Earth-616 but there was nothing to say he did not exist on Earth-616 either...

The issue of Spider-Man Magazine featuring Planet Man was not numbered but recent reprints of the comic strips from the issue in Adventures of Spider-Man & Adventures of the X-Men trade paperbacks identify the issue as #12.

HUGE thanks to Planet Man's creator Chris Hoffert for providing all sorts of interesting backstory elements and unpublished stories about Planet Man's history!!
24 years later, I'd definitely reevaluate naming conventions and call him Supernova. --Chris Hoffert

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Planet Man has no known connections to:

Planet, Commodore Donny, mercenary arms dealer @ Moon Knight I#26
Planet Terry, spacefaring youngster @ Planet Terry I#1
or any other "Planet" or "Man" characters

Asteroid Man

Asteroid Man is a primordial cosmic being and known enemy of Planet Man.