Living Diamond is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

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Publication history

The Living Diamond first appeared in X-Men

X-Men

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#39 (December 1967), and was created by Roy Thomas

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 and Werner Roth

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The character subsequently appears in X-Men #40-42 (January-March 1968), in which he is killed. The character appears posthumously in Sensational She-Hulk #34-35 (December 1991-January 1992).

Fictional character biography

The Living Diamond was a criminal whose latent mutations were activated by exposure to atomic radiation, which gave him flexible living diamond-like hands and telepathic and teleportational powers. After further exposure to radiation, his entire body took on the same diamond-like properties.

He encountered a young Scott Summers

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. He tried to convince Scott to join him in a life of crime, but Professor X

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 intervened. The Professor used an ultrasonic vibration inducer to subdue the Living Diamond, but when the Living Diamond resisted he exploded and was killed.

Years later, when Black Talon

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 was battling She-Hulk he formed the X-Humed from four dead mutants Changeling, Scaleface

Scaleface

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, Living Diamond and Harry Leland

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but was unable to control all of them at once and Changeling was able to break his hold long enough for She-Hulk to triumph.

External links

• Living Diamond at Uncannyxmen.net