Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)

Cobalt Man
Name	Ralph Roberts
Current Alias	Cobalt Man
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Egghead's Emissaries of Evil
Relatives	Ted Roberts
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5′8″ (1.73 m)
Weight	156 lbs (70.76 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Brown
Origin and Living Status
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Death	Stamford, Connecticut
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Former criminal; scientist
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Roy Thomas, Werner Roth
First	X-Men #31 (February, 1967)
First	X-Men #31 (February, 1967)
Death	Civil War #1 (May, 2006)
Death	Civil War #1 (May, 2006)

History

Ralph Roberts was a scientist who had been studying the effects of nuclear radiation involving cobalt. He sought to use this as a weapon and began designing a suit, which he planned to give to the military as opposed to Iron Man. Upon completion, he called himself the Cobalt Man. When he first put on the suit, he was suffering from a concussion, because he had injured himself in a pole jump competition with his brother Ted. Because of his head injury, he became obsessed with defeating Iron Man. He was defeated by the X-Men before his unstable suit could explode.

He was later brainwashed to serve Egghead as part of his Emissaries of Evil and fought the Defenders. Roberts was believed to have been killed in a nuclear explosion while trying to escape from Egghead.

He later turned up alive, allied with a group of supervilllains hiding out in Stamford, Connecticut. The New Warriors arrived to capture the villains, but one of them, Nitro, blew himself up killing most of the Warriors, six hundred innocent civilians and, apparently, all of his fellow fugitives, including Roberts.

Later, a group of men wearing cheap knockoffs of the Cobalt Man suit attacked surviving New Warrior Speedball in retaliation for the Stamford massacre, calling themselves the Cobalt Men.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

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Paraphernalia

Equipment

The Cobalt man operated a powered armor similar to that of Iron Man. It used cobalt to power a nuclear reactor, although it was notoriously unstable. The armoured suit gave him a number of abilities including superhuman strength and stamina, near-invulnerability, concussive force blasts, the ability to survive in vacuum and flight.

Notes

• To infiltrate the Thunderbolts, Iron Man created his own version of the Cobalt Man armor and posed as Roberts.

See Also

• 15 appearance(s) of Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)
• 3 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)
• 2 minor appearance(s) of Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)
• 5 mention(s) of Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)
• 13 image(s) of Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Ralph Roberts (Earth-616)