Mark Mandrill was a scientist turned alchemist when he spent his spare time attempting alchemy. Mandrill was trying to turn lead into gold untill a vial of unknown chemicals spilled on the floor and exploded. Just as the hot metallic compound came towards Mandrill's direction, he put his hands up in a halting position and suddenly the metallic compound stops. Now able to telepathically control this material that he dubbed "Mentachem," Mandrill made a wand out of the material in order to control, reshape, transmute, or levitate any natural element or matter.
Mandrill began a life of crime and fought against Hawkman as well as the Justice League. He later becomes a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains and kidnaps some of the richest people in St. Roch, Louisiana in order to draw out Hawkman along with the rest of the Justice League into a confrontation. However, the battle between them lasts only a few seconds because Golden Eagle who was posing as Hawkman uses his axe to sever Matter Master's right arm. After his defeat, Golden Eagle kidnapped Mandrill and forced him to fashion a new battle armor. Golden Eagle turned Mandrill over to the Justice League so his memories can be erased along with many other villains.
Matter Master was one of the members of the Secret Society who discovered the identities of the JLA. Because of this fact, they had their minds wiped by Zatanna. He along with Wizard, Star Sapphire, Chronos, Floronic Man, and Felix Faust (other victims of the mind-wipe) later attacked the JLA and threatened to harm the people close to them, after their memories were restored by Despero.
Batman Beyond
In Metropolis, Carson Jatts is an analyst for all the confiscated materials or contraband that the Justice League has collected over the years. Unfortunately, Jatts has cancer due to the alien and radioactive materials in the Justice League archives. Jatts decides he wants revenge on the Justiice League before he dies so he steals the original Matter Master's Mentachem wand from the archives located in the
Justice League Watchtower. However, his peculiar affliction causes the wand to meld with his right arm and turns it neon green. Another analyst named Herb tries to stop Jatts but he is transformed into lead. Jatts manages to escape the Justice League Watchtower but soon after, his getaway speeder is thrashed by
Warhawk and Green Lantern. Jatts destroys one of Warhawk's wings and crash lands into a Gotham mall where
Mary and
Matt McGinnis were shopping.
Jatts takes everyone in the plaza hostage and seals that section of the mall in polytritanium. Some of the hostages try to subdue Jatts while Mary McGinnis tried to reason with him but he transforms rebellious hostages into copper. Meanwhile,
Terry and Justice League (excluding Superman) work together in freeing the hostages after having a few brutal disagreements amongst each other. Bruce suggests that they take an abandoned trainway that goes right under that section of the mall. While the team makes their way through the underground passage, Jatts transforms the rest of the hostages into copper and Bruce digs up any files he had on Matter Master. Bruce concludes with Terry that there were a few guys that used the Mentachem wand but never realized its full potential which makes Jatts all the more dangerous since he has analyzed this wand for a short time.
In the end, Jatts battles the Justice League to the death. His usage of his newfound powers causes him to overload. Green Lantern contains the blast from Jatts' internal explosion with his ring. Now, all that's left of Jatts is a metal statue of himself. Perhaps this is end of the Matter Master's reign since the last of the Mentachem now resides in Jatts' frozen metallic body but then again it is Mentachem, mental being the key word and Jatts could just be hibernating as a statue til such time he can exact his revenge on the Justice League.
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