Kirt Niedrigh is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. Created by Cary Bates and Mike Grell, Niedrigh is a former hopeful for the Legion of Super-Heroes under the guise of Absorbency Boy. After being rejected from the team, years later he resurfaced as Earth-Man leading a group of supervillains calling themselves the Justice League of Earth, which help to enforce a xenophobic agenda that Earth has adopted. He first appe...
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Kirt Niedrigh is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. Created by Cary Bates and Mike Grell, Niedrigh is a former hopeful for the Legion of Super-Heroes under the guise of Absorbency Boy. After being rejected from the team, years later he resurfaced as Earth-Man leading a group of supervillains calling themselves the Justice League of Earth, which help to enforce a xenophobic agenda that Earth has adopted. He first appears in Superboy (vol. 1) #218 and reappeared as Earth-Man in Action Comics #858, the first part of Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Kirt Niedrigh first appeared in Superboy (vol. 1) #218, trying out for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes. Calling himself Absorbency Boy, and possessing the ability to absorb the energy residue of any super-powered being, gaining their powers himself, he was rejected on the grounds that his powers were too limited.
Incensed at his rejection, Niedrigh found the costume of "Zoras", a fake villain used...
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