Jack Nimball (Earth-One)

Toyman
Mainstream Universe‎‎, 1950s-2011‎
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Real Name	Jack Nimball
Main Alias	Toyman
Base Of Operations	Metropolis
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Professional Criminal
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Origin
Universe	Earth-One · New Earth
Creators	Cary Bates · Curt Swan
First Appearance	Action Comics #432 (February, 1974)
Appearance of Death	Superman #305 (November, 1976)

Jack Nimball was the second Toyman, an enemy of Superman.

History

Small-time crook Jack Nimball usurped the identity and hi-tech toy arsenal of Winslow Schott, the original Toyman, during a time when Schott had retired from his life of crime. In his first appearance as the new Toyman, Nimball terrorized Metropolis, but he was ultimately done in by an alliance between Schott, who wished to preserve the integrity of the Toyman name even as a reformed man, and Superman. In spite of initial failure, Nimball would launch a brief and unsuccessful criminal career as the Toyman, though he would be beaten every time by Superman just like his predecessor. When Winslow Schott was driven by circumstance into returning to his old habits, he reclaimed the Toyman identity from Nimball, who he held had desecrated it, by murdering him while he was out on parole with a mechanical toy bird.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Various Toys: Life sized toys which impersonated various people or did his bidding, high-tech plastic lab equipment, and toys that are just toys for amusement.

Transportation

• Various Toys: The Toyman has employed a wide array of vehicles to aid him in his criminal endeavors, all of which are patterned after a toy of some kind. Such vehicles include everything from toy trains to pogo-sticks.

Weapons

• Various Toys: Acid spraying squirt guns, toy soldiers with live rounds, toy airplanes with machine guns, wind up tanks with miniaturized shells, exploding balls, acid gum, etc.

Notes

• This version of Jack Nimball, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the Dark Crisis of 2022–2023. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.
• It has been indicated that a version of Jack Nimball did exist in the Post-Crisis New Earth universe, but that he may simply have been an android created by the original Toyman, Winslow Schott.

Related

• 7 Appearances of Jack Nimball (Earth-One)
• 4 Images featuring Jack Nimball (Earth-One)
• Quotations by or about Jack Nimball (Earth-One)
• Character Gallery: Jack Nimball (Earth-One)

Footnotes

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