Manga Khan

Manga Khan
[[Image:|200px]] Magna Khan
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Justice League International #14 (June, 1988)
Created by	Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis & Steve Leialoha
In-story information
Alter ego	Unknown
Team affiliations	The Cluster
Abilities	Alien being which exist in a gaseous state possessing telepathic abilities.

Manga Khan is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. Manga Khan is an intergalactic trader. A gaseous being, he relies on a metallic suit to give him form. He had a robot companion named L-Ron (before trading him to the Justice League), and was a foe of the Justice League in the early 1990s.

He suffers from a condition which causes him to give soliloquies at random intervals, in a parody of comics from the sixties. In the same vein, he founded the Manga Khan School of Melodrama to teach similar speech patterns to other characters. One of his alumni is the Scarlet Skier.

Originally known simply as Lord Manga, Manga Khan's name is a direct reference to manga. Many of his "male" robotic assistants are named after science fiction writers: L-Ron after L. Ron Hubbard, Hein-9 after Robert A. Heinlein, K-Dikk after Philip K. Dick, for instance. In the 2003 miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League, a "female" robotic assistant, J-Lo, was introduced, whose monicker is, of course, derived from a popular nickname for Jennifer Lopez.

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In his natural gaseous state Manga Khan could communicate telepathically, but couldn't physically interact with anyone or anything. He normally wore an armored suit that made him impervious to damage and granted him superhuman strength. Manga was a very poor fighter and would rather talk his way out of combat. Manga was a master negotiator and barterer, thoroughly lacking ethics in his wheeling and dealings.