Dev-Em
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Dev-Em is a character who appears in DC Comics. He first appeared in Adventure Comics #287.
[edit] Pre-Crisis
In the pre-crisis continuity, Dev-Em was a Kryptonian juvenile delinquent who was placed in suspended animation in an orbiting space capsule. When the planet Krypton exploded, Dev-Em's ship was blasted into space, where it eventually landed on Earth. Dev-Em imprisoned Superboy in the Phantom Zone and assumed his identity in an effort to destroy the Boy of Steel's reputation. Eventually he freed Superboy and chose to depart the twentieth century, traveling through time to finally settle on the more advanced Earth of the 30th century.
The so-called "Knave of Krypton" eventually reformed and joined the Interstellar Counter-Intelligence Corps of the 30th century. He was reluctantly offered membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes but turned it down. Despite his occasionally abrasive nature, Dev-Em aided the Legion on several occasions, most notably in the Great Darkness Saga against Darkseid.
[edit] Post-Crisis, Pre-Zero Hour
In the limited series Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes, his post-Crisis background was changed. Since there were no more Kryptonians in the wake of the Superman reboot, his entry in this encyclopedia-like series said that he was now a resident of Titan, home world of Saturn Girl, who used his inherited mental powers to give himself Kryptonian-style superpowers. This aspect of his background never appeared in print outside of this Who's Who entry.
Dev-Em appeared in the "Time and Time Again" storyline in the Superman books, in which the Man of Steel was bouncing between the 30th century (home of the Legion) and the 20th century. Superman encountered Dev-Em, now portrayed as an insane Daxamite, where as a full grown adult he destroyed the Earth's moon with catastrophic consequences to the inhabitants of Earth.
Dev-Em did not appear again in the pre-Zero Hour continuity.
[edit] Post-Infinite Crisis
In the aftermath of the Infinite Crisis in which Kon-El died, a man going by the name Devem is seen as part of a cult of Kryptonian worshippers in the series 52. He is revealed to actually be a "psych-ward refugee named Derek Mathers who has a history of fraud."
