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. Kevin Michael Richardson, Khary Payton, Harry Lennix, and others have provided the character's voice ranging from animation to video games.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. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II portrayed Black Manta in his live-action cinematic debut in the 2018 DC Extended Universe film Aquaman, and 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 media. Despite these differing 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. īlack Manta has had numerous origin stories established throughout his comic book history, having been a young boy kidnapped and enslaved by pirates on their ship an autistic child subjected to experiments in Arkham Asylum and a ruthless mercenary caught in a mutual cycle of vengeance with Aquaman over the deaths of both their fathers. He has since endured as the archenemy of the superhero Aquaman. The character was created by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy, and first appeared in Aquaman #35 in September 1967. Artificial gills for underwater breathingīlack Manta is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.Skilled hand-to-hand combatant and swordsman
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