Ultraa is a
DC Comics character, originally the first superhuman on
Earth Prime. The original first appeared in
Justice League of America #153 (April 1978), he was created by
Gerry Conway and
George Tuska. The current Ultraa first appeared in
Justice League Quarterly #13 (Winter 1993), written by
Kevin Dooley and drawn by
Greg LaRocque. A new version of Ultraa appears in
Grant Morrison's
The Multiversity project. Ultraa's origin is very similar to
Superman's, in that he was born on an alien world and sent to Earth to escape its destruction. He landed in the
Australian Outback and was raised by
Indigenous Australians. Ultraa joins the Justice League of
Earth-One, but they turn against him following an incident where he uses a ray gun to make the members of the League and the
Injustice Gang apathetic. As a result of their second encounter with Ultraa, the League imprisons him in a "stasis cube" prison of Superman's design. He is later released by an alien hive mind known as the Over-Complex. A dispirited Ultraa adopts the civilian guise of Jack Grey and becomes a
busboy. He is manipulated by Joe Parry, a down-and-out former opponent of the Justice League, but a heart-to-heart talk with
Hawkman convinces him to break off the attack. Ultraa subsequently decides to move back to Australia. Following
Crisis on Infinite Earths, which reboots the continuity of the DC Universe, the original Ultraa is
retconned out of existence. In
Justice League Quarterly #13 (1993), Ultraa is reintroduced as a native of
Almerac and the betrothed of Queen
Maxima. Ultraa later appears as a member of the
League Busters in
Justice League International. In
The New 52, Ultraa is a
metafictional character who resides on Earth-33, an analogue of the real world that has no
metahumans. Ultra is Earth-33's sole metahuman and is empowered by the minds of those who read his comics. ==Ultra-Humanite==