Grimbor (August 24, 1976) This Day In Comics

Grimbor (August 24, 1976) This Day In Comics – Superboy #221

Grimbor was created in 1976 by Jim Shooter and Mike Grell.

Grimbor is a master craftsman able to create confining devices that didn’t fail. He came into contact with a young mutant girl named Charma Drisden when he was hired by the female headmaster of a school she attended on her native planet, Turabeau, to devise a way of negating her powers, which was a hypnotic aura that made men love and protect her and women hate and fight her. Using her powers, Charma persuaded him to use his abilities for crime. Together they captured the Legion of Super-Heroes and attempted to blackmail R. J. Brande, but they ended up foiled by Shrinking Violet. She attacked Charma while in the presence of the male Legionnaires. They broke free and attacked Grimbor, while Violet put Charma in some shackles that nullified her powers. Unknownst to the Legionnaires, Charma was later killed in a women’s prison, because her powers caused the inmates to absolutely hate her, and they ganged up on her. An infuriated Grimbor swore revenge on the Legion, the group who had put her in prison. He then attacked the Legion and later put the Earth in energy chains. The Legion thwarted him and he was imprisoned in one of his own cells.

Grimbor first appeared in Superboy #221 (August 24, 1976).