![]() ![]() īlack Manta first revealed without his helmet in Adventure Comics #452 Art by Jim Aparo.īlack Manta had no definitive origin story until #6 of the 1993 Aquaman series. Black Manta made his live-action cinematic debut in the 2018 DC Extended Universe film Aquaman, portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who will reprise his role in the upcoming 2022 sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. The character has been adapted from the comics into various forms of animated media, having most notably been voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Khary Payton in Young Justice. Despite these different versions of his past, Black Manta is consistently depicted as a cutthroat underwater villain known for using a high-tech powered armor with a large metal helmet and red eyes. The character has had numerous origin stories established throughout his history, having been a young boy kidnapped and enslaved by pirates on their ship an autistic child experimented on at Arkham Asylum and a ruthless mercenary caught in a mutual cycle of vengeance with Aquaman over the deaths of both their fathers. ![]() Created by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy, he made his debut in Aquaman #35 in September 1967 and has since endured as the archenemy of the superhero Aquaman. Artificial gills for underwater breathingīlack Manta ( David Hyde) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Skilled hand-to-hand combatant and swordsman ![]()
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