Anthony Lupus
Anthony Lupus is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Anthony Lupus was a former Olympic Decathlon champion who suffers from severe headaches until he met Professor Achilles Milo who used a drug to treat them. However, the treatment also turns Lupus into a werewolf. Milo discovered that Lupus suffers from lycanthropy which was the source of Anthony's headaches. With a serum derived from the Alaskan timber wolf, Milo sent Anthony's condition into overdrive transforming him into a full werewolf with the full moon even as Milo claimed that he could cure advanced lycanthropy. In his first outing, Anthony Lupus' werewolf form entered the apartment of a woman and killed her pet dog. Before the Werewolf could kill the woman, Batman arrived and rescued her. After the scuffle, the werewolf reunited with Professor Milo and regressed back to Anthony Lupus when dawn rose whereupon Lupus claimed that the transformations were getting worse. Milo though said that for Lupus to get the cure he needed to kill Batman. To facilitate the murder plot, Lupus puts out a charity donation that he wanted Batman to deliver. When Batman arrived at Lupus' house, he was tricked into a locked room where knockout gas was pumped into it. When Milo had Batman chained in an abandoned lot, he wanted Anthony to finish the job if he wanted the cure. When Anthony stated that he will lose control of this transformation, Milo did not care. Upon Anthony transforming into the Werewolf, he attacked Milo first where the cure was destroyed during the attack. Upon breaking free as a storm begins, Batman fought the Werewolf several stories above the ground and manages to impale the Werewolf with a metallic rod. Just then, a lightning bolt strikes the metallic rod that impaled the Werewolf. This caused the Werewolf's burning body to fall to the ground. When Batman made it to the ground where the Werewolf landed, all he found was a charred metallic rod. Not long after this, there was news in Alaska about a man hunting wolves and a beast leading a wolf pack that was starting to spread in the Alaskan wilderness. (Batman v1 #255)
Six years later, Batman tacked Lupus to Alaska, where he was living in isolation for fear of hurting other people as a werewolf. Lupus was also hunting wolves, which alerted the authorities and Batman as well. Batman contacted Lupus and pleaded with him to donate bone marrow to his ailing sister. After successfully trapping Anthony in a silver net, Batman promised Lupus he would do everything to find a cure and he took Lupus back to Gotham. (Detective Comics v1 #505)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
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Personality and attributes
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Notes
- Anthony Lupus was created by Len Wein and Dennis O'Neil where he made his first appearance in Batman v1 #255 (April, 1974).
In other media
Television
- In Batman: The Animated Series, a character named Anthony Romulus appeared in the setting of the animated television series set in the DC Animated universe in the episode "Moon of the Wolf" where he was voiced by actor Harry Hamlin. In his desire for achieving physical perfection, Romulus approached Doctor Achilles Milo and asked him for a formula that would help him become stronger. Milo provided him with an untested and illegal serum that Romulus used. His physical performance increased and he won several competitions. However, one full moon night, his body changed and he transformed into a half-human half-werewolf. Milo told him that the transformation could only be reverted when it was complete. Romulus gave him the missing half of the serum that would transform him into a werewolf. Romulus obeyed Milo's orders in order to get the antidote but after being used for some time and not having results, Romulus attacked Milo on his werewolf form. As a result the antidote was lost and Milo was injured. Batman and Romulus fought for a while and in the end Batman managed to beat the werewolf, who was knocked down to a river.
Other
Appearances
- Batman v1: (1974)
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