Planetary Elseworld Guide: People
Alien cop[edit]
The 30-meter tall being whose ship crashed off the northeastern coast of Japan in 1932, creating Night Island and a constant electromagnetic anomaly over the area. The alien cop's technorganic nature was analyzed, probed and dissected by Project Yorushima for ten years.
Fourth Man[edit]
Planetary's mysterious benefactor. Nobody knows who he really is.
John Gaia[edit]
A member of the Planetary field team, Gaia is a mysterious telepath and shape shifter, able to sense the natural surroundings in a 1-mile radius and turn into whatever animal, plant or human he has recently seen. Nothing is known about him, not even by himself. In February, 2001, he was found by Planetary at the shore of a bayou near New Orleans completely naked and in a deep coma. Three months later, he woke up with no memories whatsoever. Strangely, the long comatose period did not atrophy his muscles, and he could speak and think as if he had just waken up from a night of sleep. Nobody new how to call him so the Planetary New Orleans staff just called him John. Later, he adopted it as his name and Gaia as surname.
Lo Pan[edit]
Asian crimelord active in Chicago during the 1930's and 40's. Lo Pan seemed to possess posthuman abilities and was a bitter enemy of the Whisperer. Apparently, he died on November 30th, 1949, in their last confrontation.
Mist[edit]
Posthuman vigilante who was a member of the Changers. During the 1930's and 40's, the Mist worked as the personal driver of the Whisperer, Chicago's masked vigilante. The Mist died when StormWatch attacked the Changers' headquarters, in Paraguay.
Uri Ben-Drav[edit]
Israeli soldier who found the Samsonian bracelets near the Golan hills in 1967. Ben-Drav used his newfound powers to help both Palestinians and Israelis. He disappeared months later while thwarting a PLO nuclear attack.
Whisperer[edit]
Masked vigilante active in Chicago during the 1930's and 40's. His true identity was that of millionaire playboy Lawrence Carter. Several accounts indicate Carter possessed such posthuman abilities as inhuman shooting skill, hypnotic power and invisibility, among others. The Whisperer employed a Chinese man, Yongjie, as his personal driver. This man would later on assume the identity of the Mist. Though fighting all crime bosses, Carter had a bitter enmity towards Lo Pan, an Asian crimelord. The Whisperer's last appeared on December 1st, 1949, one day after his final confrontation with his Asian nemesis.
