Wonder-Man

Wonder-Man. A new super-hero who seemed intent on replacing Superman as the champion of Metropolis. Originally, Wonder-Man was the most powerful of the Superman Robots, whom the Man of Steel named Ajax and appointed the guardian of the Fortress of Solitude. On one occassion, while Superman had to prevent a severe earthquake in Canada, the Man of Tomorrow ordered Ajax to deal with a meteor shower that was about to endanger Earth. While dealing with this outer space threat, Ajax assisted a stranded alien spacecraft that was secretly controlled by the leaders of the Superman Revenge Squad, who used their ship's technology to cause a meteor fragment to collide with Ajax and damage his robotic systems. As part of a plot by the Revenger leader, Attal, Ajax's robotic consciousness was transferred into a chemically-made android body that had a different appearance than his previous Superman-like robot form, and was renamed Wonder-Man. Maneuvered into trying to supplant Superman on Earth, Wonder-Man began performing super-feats that were deliberately meant to prove his superiority over the Metropolis Marvel. (S No. 163/1, Aug 1963: "Wonder-Man, the New Hero of Metropolis!").