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Pre-Crisis, Glorith is an agent of the Time Trapper who he killed for her failure to defeat the Legion of Super-Heroes. Post-Crisis, Glorith becomes a frequent and dangerous enemy of the Legion using her ability to manipulate time. Grimbor the Chainsman (Markx Grimbor) Superboy #221 (November 1976)
The Time Trapper is a supervillain appearing in DC Comics, primarily as an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Created by Edmond Hamilton and John Forte, he first appeared in Adventure Comics #317 (February 1964). Within the context of the stories, the Time Trapper is a powerful, time-manipulating entity who resides at the end of time.
The Time Trapper subjects Lightning Lad to a variety of psychological attacks, in an attempt to crush his spirit and his sanity. After a series of illusions fails to break the Legionnaire, the Trapper reveals that he caused the shuttle accident that killed Lightning Lad's parents years earlier.
Time Trapper is too powerful for the League to fight. Karate Kid discovers that Time Trapper is composed of dark matter and realizes that only Dawnstar's light-based powers can defeat him. Dawnstar charges Time Trapper and the League defeat him, reverting the Eternity Glass, which imprisons Time Trapper once more.
Issue #5 featured an alternate universe story in which the restructuring took place, and the Time Trapper was replaced in continuity by his onetime underling Glorith. One major storyline during this period was the discovery of Batch SW6, a group of clones of the early Legion (from their Adventure Comics days), created by the Dominators. Giffen ...
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Superman follows, barely able to keep up with Superboy. From his Citadel, the Time Trapper observes the transpiring events and recalls that he created a "pocket universe" (with a different Earth, a different Krypton and a different Kal-El) to which he has continually directed the Legion during all of their journeys to the 20th century.
The Time Trapper later revives him, hoping to use his body to preserve himself, but Mon-El kills him to prevent the Trapper from further manipulating events throughout history. [11] This erases Superboy's pocket universe and alters the timeline. The Trapper's role and powers are usurped by his underling Glorith, and Lar Gand is recast as Valor.