Titan (Frank Wells) was a Dark Horse Comics superhero. He first appeared in Comics' Greatest World: Golden City Week 3 (1993).

Character history

Origin

The Warmaker Incident

When the supervillain and US government prisoner, Warmaker, escapes from The Vault, a super-prison located in Golden City, all the local heroes, including Titan, have to face him. While Titan is easily more powerful than Warmaker, he is overconfident and has no self-control.

Titan is near invulnerable but when the villain aims his wrist canon at him, instead of taking the hit, Titan pushes Warmaker's arm causing a skyscraper to be damaged. This endangers the lives of both the people in the building and the pedestrians on the street below.

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Later, after Grace has defeated Warmaker, Titan attacks him for no reason. Warmaker strikes Titan knocking him into Rhapsody, who falls and is killed.

Catalyst

Grace uses Warmaker's escape and the death of Rhapsody as an excuse to secede from the United States. The US attacks the city attempting to force Grace's surrender. She forms Catalyst: Agents of Change to defend the city. The team consists of Titan, Rebel, Ruby, Mecha, and Warmaker, who has made a deal with Grace in exchange for freedom.

Titan, along with Mecha and Warmaker, defends the city's food source, a wheatfield, from the US attack, while the rest of Catalyst protects the city itself, which is being attacked with missiles.

The government then sends in Grenade, a cyborg solder, to attack the heroes. When Grenade is defeated by Catalyst, he releases a radioactive cloud and then self-destructs.

Using public opinion (she had the fight televised on CNN), Grace is able to force a truce with the government, gaining independence for Golden City.

Later, Titan and Grace disagree over her motives leading to his resigning from the team to "find America."

Will to Power

After leaving Golden City, Titan discovers Tent City, a newly formed suburb of refugees trying to get into Grace's paradise. He then decides someone needs to champion the people and goes to join the National Security Council as a field agent.

His first assignment puts him up against The Inhibitors and his own former sidekick Golden Boy.

He then is sent to Arcadia to protect Congressman DeMarco from the vigilante X. X attacks the congressman and Titan chases him, confronting both Scream and Monster, before X convinces him he is a dupe for a drug lord.

Next, Titan is sent to Steel Harbor to quell the gang wars that are tearing the city apart. He faces down Mace Blitzkrieg’s Prime Movers before going completely over the edge. Now quiet crazy, Titan faces Barb Wire, the Wolf Pack, and Motorhead, before Grace snatches him up and brings him back to Golden City.

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Titan defeats Catalyst then flies to Cinnibar Flats to challenge Vortex. Titan’s rampage at the army base causes the deaths of many US solders, including Lt. Eileen Anderson, Vortex’s only human friend. Vortex is angered by the death and kills Titan.

Autopsy

After his death, Titan's body was taken by the government. They attempted to autopsy him but couldn't cut open his body due to its invulnerability. Suddenly, for unknown reasons, Titan's body went threw some kind of change, becoming vulnerable. It that exact moment Special Agent Bert gained powers similar to Titan.

Enemies

As a Hero

• Warmaker/Elvis Westbury
• Grenade
• The Inhibitors (aka The Chosen People)
  • Proph/Dr. Stanley Kirby
  • Lethargy
  • Microwave
  • Eagle
  • Golden Boy/Elmore
  • Unnamed; Possibly "Dog"
• X
• Boss Roscoe Ligotti
• The Prime Movers
  • Mace Blitzkrieg
  • Airborne
  • Deadlight
  • Hurricane Max
  • Killerwatt
  • Blackbelt
  • Ignition II

As a Villain

• Grace and Catalyst
• Motorhead
• King Tiger
• Vortex

Bibliography

• Comic's Greatest World: Golden City 2 (One Panel Cameo)
• Comics' Greatest World: Golden City 3-4
• Catalyst: Agents of Change 1-4
• Titan Special 1
• Will To Power 1-12

See Also

Comics' Greatest World