| Amphibian Man | |
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Real Name |
Ichthyander |
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First Appearance |
Amphibian Man (1928) |
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Original Publisher |
Unknown |
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Created by |
Alexander Belayev |
Origin[]
Argentinean doctor Salvator, a scientist and a maverick surgeon, gives his son, Ichthyander a life-saving transplant - a set of shark gills. The experiment is a success but it limits the young man's ability to interact with the world outside his ocean environment. He has to spend much of his time in water. Pedro Zurita, a local pearl gatherer, learns about Ichthyander and tries to exploit the boy's superhuman diving abilities.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Amphibian Man (1928)
Notes[]
- It is suggested the Belyayev borrowed the plot from the 1909 French novel The Man Who Can Live in Water by Jean de La Hire. Belyayev could not read French, but this novel appeared in Russian at least twice. In 1909 the ultramonarchist newspaper Zemshchina published a remake in which the supevillain was a Jew. In 1911 the magazine Свет (Light) published the translation of the French novel under the title Иктанэр и Моэзетта (Hictaner and Moisette).