During most of his appearances, his main goals are defeating Aquaman and gaining power for himself through the conquest of Atlantis. During one of these clashes, it is revealed that Black Manta is actually black, whose stated objective at one point was for black people to dominate the ocean after having been oppressed for so long on dry land though it was soon revealed by Cal Durham, one of his more idealistic henchmen, that Manta was more obsessed with his own personal desires. īlack Manta and Aquaman battled repeatedly over the next several years. His first name, David, is revealed in the 2010 Brightest Day storyline, although his last name has not been revealed. Taking the name Black Manta, he and his masked army became a formidable force, engaging in at least one unrecorded clash with Aquaman prior to his first appearance as a rival to the Ocean Master (and before joining the short-lived Injustice League in the retcon Silver Age third-week event). Īs an adult, the man who would become Black Manta designed a costume (primarily a black wetsuit with a bug-eyed helmet, that was able to shoot rays from its eyes) and fashioned a high-tech submersible inspired by manta rays. One treatment seemed to clear the boy's head, but left him violent as a result he killed the scientist who had administered the treatment and escaped from Arkham. The boy would end up being subjected to experimental treatments. In this version, young Black Manta was also fascinated when he saw Aquaman on television.
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Because the attendants at Arkham did not know how to deal with autism, they would end up restraining him to the bed as he struggled and screamed whenever they tried putting him to bed. He felt comfortable in freezing cold water but found cotton sheets excruciatingly painful. In this origin, the boy who would become Black Manta was an autistic orphan placed in Gotham City's Arkham Asylum. Īn alternative version was given in #8 of the 2003 Aquaman series. Hating the emotionless sea and Aquaman, whom he saw as its representative, he was determined to become its master. Finally, he was forced to defend himself, killing one of his tormentors on the ship with a knife. At one point, he saw Aquaman with his dolphin friends and tried to signal him for help but was not seen. In his youth, he was kidnapped and forced to work on a ship for an unspecified amount of time, where he was physically abused by his captors. In this origin, the African American child who would become Black Manta grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and loved to play by the Chesapeake Bay. 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 2023 sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. The character has been adapted from the comics into various forms of animated media and video games, 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.
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