TIN MAN
Real Name: Inapplicable(?)
Identity/Class: Self-aware android/robot (early 1940s
era)
Occupation: Menace to humans
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Humans, notably Crawler, Creeper,
police
Known Relatives: Uncle Scrap
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: City (named unrevealed),
USA
First Appearance: Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal
Comics#2/4 (Winter, 1944)
Powers/Abilities: Tin Man is a murderous
self-aware robot with contempt for humans for unrevealed reasons. He
has an animated face to project its emotions. He has the strength of
about two fit men and can run as fast as an athletic man. His body
appears to composed of tin-plated steel (see comments) or similar, and
he is susceptible to bullets.
Height: 5'10"
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Black
Hair: None
History:
(Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/4 (fb) - BTS) - Tin
Man had become a menace to the point that a $5000 reward had been set
for him and advertised in the city newspaper.
(Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/4) - Locals Creeper and short son Crawler decided to hunt Tin Man down, but the devious Tin Man had already found them and, after Creeper threatened to defend himseld with simple can opener, the metal man meanly bundled them into a nearby barrel, kicking it down the street where it cracked apart against a pole. Creeper chose to disguise Crawler in a tin suit similar in design to Tin Man's and Crawler soon encountered the villain. Crawler declared himself a relative and Tin Man conceded he looked a little like his Uncle Scrap. Tin Man offered the disguised Crawler a treat: to kill his next victim, but Crawler instead took the knife and quickly freed the bound girl and they fled. Angered at the duplicity, Tin Man hid near a window amongst metal cylinders; when Crawler tried to escape with the girl, Tin Man confronted and menaced them. But Creeper had meanwhile secured a giant magnet outside the building that suddenly pulled Tin Man out the window and held him secure. Creeper and Crawler waited for the police to arrive before releasing Tin Man, and the menace was taken away at gunpoint with the policeman thinking Tin Man would add to the police's scrap drive.
Comments: Creators not credited.
Tin is weakly magnetic under normal conditions, so
for Tin Man to be captured by a magnet, his tin frame had to be
combined with a magnetic metal, so his shell was likely tin-plated
steel, popular for the era.
It's possible Tin Man is a cyborg, but given the design and era (robots were far more vogue than cyborgs), I've classed him as an android/robot.
Yes, the opening (main) picture shows him with blue
eyes, but the rest of the story shows him with black eyes.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
:
Tin Man has no known connections to:
images:
(without ads)
Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/4, p1, pan1 (main image)
p7, pan4 (held by magnet)
Appearances:
Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/4 (Winter, 1944) - creators and editor
not credited
First posted: 11/01/2024
Last updated:
11/01/2024
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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