Doll Man is a superhero first appearing in American comic books from the Golden Age of Comics, originally published by Quality Comics and currently part of the DC Comics universe of characters.
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14 Facts About Doll Man
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Issue's December 1939 cover date indicates that Doll Man is the first comic book superhero with a shrinking power.
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Doll Man notably predates the more-famous Ray Palmer and Hank Pym by two decades.
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Doll Man was the first example of a shrinking superhero, and one of the few that was unable to change to a height in between his minimum and maximum sizes .
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Doll Man subsequently decides to fight crime and adopts a red and blue costume sewn by Martha.
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Doll Man has the aid of Elmo the Wonder Dog, a Great Dane who serves as his occasional steed and rescuer, and the "Dollplane", which was deceptively presented as a model airplane in his study when not in use.
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Doll Man's own self-titled series ran from 1941 until 1953, for forty-seven issues.
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Doll Man was an occasional guest star in All-Star Squadron, a superhero team title that was set on Earth-2, the locale for DC's WWII-era superheroes, at a time prior to when he and the other Freedom Fighters are supposed to have left for Earth-X.
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Doll Man then appeared with the rest of DC's entire cast of superheroes in Crisis on Infinite Earths, a story that was intended to eliminate the similarly confusing histories that DC had attached to its characters by retroactively merging the various parallel worlds into one.
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Doll Man reveals that the years spent at compressed size have damaged his mind, leaving him mentally unstable.
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At his six-inch height, Doll Man retained the strength and athletics of a full grown man.
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Doll Man has apparently aged a little, but not at all for decades, perhaps due to the mystic presence of Uncle Sam.
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Second Doll Man has similar powers and access to high-tech equipment.
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An Earth-X version of Doll Man appears in the Arrowverse-adjacent CW Seed animated series Freedom Fighters: The Ray, voiced by Matthew Mercer.
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