Vincent Yatz
Vincent Yatz is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Emil Yatz was a defector from the Soviet Union who was assigned Jack Ryder, a disgraced television host, for security purposes. He's kidnapped by mobsters who intend to sell his secrets and discoveries to the Soviets. He is taken to a masquerade ball being thrown by the leader of the mob, and held there. He and his captors are followed by Ryder, who disguises himself in order to enter the party. When Ryder is recognized as an intruder and shot, Yatz injects him with his special serum in order to save his life, and accidentally leaves an activator device in his wound. When the pair are again attacked by the mobsters, Yatz is killed in the process.
Dr Yatz was approached by Jack Ryder, a TV host turned network security investigator when he loses his former job, is assigned to investigate the case of Professor Yatz, a scientist captured by criminals and about to be turned over to Communist spies for shipping back to the Soviet Union. Since the place where Yatz is being held is throwing a costume party, Ryder buys a costume made of odds and ends, including a green wig and a red sheepskin "cape." He finds Yatz, but not before getting cut in the stomach by a knife. Yatz heals his wound with a special formula of his devising, and plants in the wound an activator, whose mate the costumed Ryder has in his hand. The activator allows Ryder the ability to dematerialize or rematerialize his costume at the twist of a dial. The professor's formula also energizes him physically. Yatz is shot dead, but Ryder, in costume, defeats the hoods and spies. In the process, he is branded falsely as a crook, and becomes wanted by both the police and underworld under the name of "the Creeper".
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Vincent Yatz
Dr Yatz attended an interview with Jack Ryder, sensationalist host of the TV talk-show "You Are Wrong", who got a scoop on Doctor Yatz’s big unveiling of artificial nanocell technology. He arrives early, only to find that gangster, Mike "Hagop" Hewsen and his gang are trying to strong-arm a sample of the nanocells from the Doctor Yatz. Thanks to some self-defense training, the captive Jack overpowers his captor and takes his gun. After that Jack takes Doctor Yatz prisoner himself and attempts to get Hewsen and his men to back off and leave the building with both of them unharmed. Not wanting to leave the last sample for the gangsters, Dr. Yatz injects it into Jack Ryder, to his surprise. Then things start to go wrong, and Hagop Hewsen and his gang overpower Jack Ryder and Dr. Yatz. They drag them off, shoot Jack and throw his body off a cliff. The nanocell experiment that was injected into Jack Ryder quickly transforms his body, and The Creeper is born. He quickly dispatches his captors but Dr Yatz gets kidnapped by Hewsen and gets taken to Hewsen's father Bolo Hewsen at their mansion.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Dr Yatz is an extremely intelligent scientist, who was able to create a nanocell serum that cures virtually all wounds, as well as creating superhuman physical attributes in a person. Vincent Yatz has no special powers, but he is a brilliant scientist with a background in genetic engineering.
He was the developer of a miraculous self-replicating nanocell technology that was capable of remarkably regenerative feats. It was said that they grew new flesh from dead flesh but the nanocells reacted badly to stress causing unforeseen side effects. (Creeper v2 #1) This was part of a revolutionary smartskin technology that could grow with the wearer. (Creeper v2 #5)
Notes
- Vincent Yatz was created by Steve Ditko and Don Segall where he made his first appearance in Showcase v1 #73 (March, 1968).
Appearances
- Showcase v1: (1968)
- Beware the Creeper v1:
- Beware the Creeper v2:
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