Solovar (New Earth)

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King Solovar

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Real Name

Solovar

Current Alias

King Solovar

Identity

Secret

Race

Gorillas

Relatives

Nnamdi (son); Ulgo (nephew)

Universe

New Earth

Base Of Operations

Gorilla City

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Hair

Black

Skin

Grey

Status

Occupation

King of Gorilla City

Origin

Origin

Place of Birth

Gorilla City

Creators

John Broome

First appearance

Last appearance

Flash #106
(May, 1959)

JLA Annual #3
(1999)

History

For many years, Solovar was the leader of Gorilla City, a hidden city of hyper-intelligent gorillas. Renowned for his wisdom and psychic powers, he was virtually unchallenged, except by the villainous Gorilla Grodd. This rivalry was so great that, after Solovar was captured by humans (playing dumb to keep his identity and origin secret), Grodd followed him to Central City to learn the secrets of Solovar's force-of-mind powers.

The Flash helped the gorilla leader escape and became the first human to learn of the city’s existence and its location. This led to a rivalry between Grodd and the Flash, as well as an alliance between the Flash and Solovar.^[1]

Solovar was engaged to marry the beautiful Boka. However, Grodd, who had just arrived home after being released from prison, used neo-magnetic radiation to make himself irresistible to her and married her instead, becoming briefly Gorilla City's king.^[2]

Under Solovar's guidance, Gorilla City was a technological utopia. Eventually, he decided his people could no longer use their science to hide from the human world. Believing that the world's ecological and political problems couldn't be solved by ignoring them, he opened his city's borders to the world and asked for membership in the United Nations. He advocated peace — among the gorillas and with humans — and was behind two diplomatic overtures to the human world.

The second tour of the U.S., sadly, was cut short by his assassination by a lethal car bomb.^[3] While a mysterious group calling itself the Human Supremacy Movement took credit for the act, it was quickly made clear that Solovar's assassination at the hands of human racists was in fact a ruse concocted by the Simian Scarlet, a group of gorillas within Gorilla City seeking to overthrow the ruling council. The manipulators were themselves manipulated by Gorilla Grodd.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Force of mind, telepathy

Abilities

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985-86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Solovar (New Earth) on the forums

• Appearances of Solovar (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Solovar (New Earth)

Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• Solovar at Wikipedia.org
  

Footnotes

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