Blue Diamond (comics)

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Blue Diamond
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Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941)
Created by	Ben Thompson
In story information
Alter ego	Elton T. Morrow
Team affiliations	Liberty Legion
Abilities	Diamond hard skin Superhuman strength

Blue Diamond is a fictional, comic-book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe He first appeared in Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941), published by Marvel's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics.

An unrelated supervillain called the Blue Diamond appears as an antagonist in Timely's The Human Torch #11 (Spring 1943).

1 Publication history
2 Fictional character biography
3 Powers and abilities
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Publication history

Blue Diamond only appeared in two issues of Daring Mystery Comics before its cancellation with issue #8 (January 1942). The majority of his World War II adventures appear in Marvel's flashback series The Invaders (vol. 1, #6, #35-38), New Invaders #9, and Citizen V and V Battalion #1, along with an appearance with the WWII superhero team the Liberty Legion in Marvel Two-in-One #20 (Oct. 1976) and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #1 (1976).

[edit] Fictional character biography

Elton T. Morrow is an archaeologist who finds a mysterious blue diamond on an expedition to Antarctica. The diamond is a piece of the Lifestone Tree, which powers the alien Chosen Eight of Fate. A German sub attacks Morrow's ship on the way home and Morrow is the only survivor. An explosion shattered the diamond during the battle, forcing innumerable tiny diamond particles into Morrow's body. After he is rescued by a British ship, he finds that the shards of the diamond gifted him with diamond-hard skin, giving him superhuman strength and nigh-invulnerability. Dubbing himself the Blue Diamond, he battles Nazi spies during World War II as part of the Liberty Legion. He retired at the end of the war.

After spending years in retirement, the Blue Diamond returns to assist the Fantastic Four's Thing against Shanga, a crystal based alien. Shanga falls in love with Blue Diamond, and turns him into a living humanoid diamond creature as her consort.^[1] After Shanga is captured by the Stranger, Morrow returns to Earth to join the new Invaders.

[edit] Powers and abilities

The strange blue diamond particles embedded in Blue Diamond's body have made his skin as strong as a diamond, as well as giving him superhuman strength. After his body was altered by Shanga, Blue Diamond gains the power of flight and the ability to survive in the vacuum of space. The alterations to his body also reversed the effects of aging.