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Death-Man was a villain with one gimmick: he could put himself in a yoga trance that resembles death, which he used to escape police custody. He only made one appearance in the American comics in the 1960s, because once his gimmick was discovered by Batman and Robin, there wasn't much else to do with the character. However, Death-Man's one U.S. outing was one of the Batman stories retold in the 1960s Batman manga by Jiro Kuwata in Japan, where he was renamed Lord Death Man. And it is under that name that he was revived in 2010, as a Japan-based, death-obsessed villain with the stated goal of "kill[ing] all Japanese crimefighters!"

History

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Powers and Abilities

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In other media

He appears in "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!", the twenty-sixth episode of the second series of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

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+'''Death-Man''' was a villain with one gimmick: he could put himself in a yoga trance that resembles death, which he used to escape police custody. He only made one appearance in the American comics in the 1960s, because once his gimmick was discovered by [[Bruce Wayne|Batman]] and [[Dick Grayson|Robin]], there wasn't much else to do with the character. However, Death-Man's one U.S. outing was one of the Batman stories retold in the 1960s Batman manga by Jiro Kuwata in Japan, where he was renamed '''Lord Death Man'''. And it is under that name that he was revived in 2010, as a Japan-based, death-obsessed villain with the stated goal of "kill[ing] all Japanese crimefighters!"
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-'''Death-Man''' was originally a villain with one gimmick: he could put himself in a yoga trance that resembles death, which he used to escape police custody. He only made one appearance in the American comics in the 1960s, because once his gimmick was discovered by [[Bruce Wayne|Batman]] and [[Dick Grayson|Robin]], there wasn't much else to do with the character. However, Death-Man was later reused in the Batman stories retold in the 1960s Batman manga by Jiro Kuwata in Japan, where he was renamed '''Lord Death Man'''. He subsequently reappears in the 2010 comic ''Batman Incorporated'', as a Japan-based, death-obsessed villain with the stated goal of "kill[ing] all Japanese crimefighters!"
 ==History==
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 ==Powers and Abilities==
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-As Death-Man, he had no superhuman powers, only the ability to feign death very realistically. However, when he reappears as Lord Death Man, his power is vastly improved - he somehow acquired the ability to come back from death. His powerful healing factor activates upon sustaining damage which should have killed him, healing all his injuries in a short time.
-Aside from this, he has no superhuman abilities, but he does have access to vast resources, including a small army of henchmen and (somehow) a giant genetically modified squid.
 ==In other media==