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E Man is a comic book character, a superhero created by writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton for the American company Charlton Comics in 1973. Although the character's original series was short lived, the lightly humorous hero has become a cult classic occasionally revived by different independent comics publishers. The character was originally owned by Charlton but was eventually transferred to its creators.

After editor Dick Giordano left the Derby, Connecticut based Charlton Comics, in 1968, the publisher ended its superhero line. A later editor, George Wildman, persuaded the publisher to try superheroes again, prompting writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton to devise E Man. Cuti said that his inspirations included the Golden Age of Comics superhero Plastic Man, such that he wanted to create a similarly fun and whimsical character. Cuti also admired Albert Einstein and his formula E=mc2. He conceived a character who was caught in a factory explosion and became an energy being that could take any form of matter. When he shared this idea with artist Joe Staton, Staton felt the origin was too similar to that of Charlton's Captain Atom and the atomic accident origins that had often been used by Marvel Comics writer editor Stan Lee. Inspired by the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Cuti created a new origin that made E Man a packet of sentient energy created as a star went nova. Cuti asked Staton to design the costume, requiring only that the character not wear a cape and that the formula E=mc2 be his chest emblem. When Staton delivered his design to Cuti, Cuti colored it with yellows and oranges to differentiate it from the reds and blues so frequently in other superhero costumes. Cuti enjoyed scripting wisecracking banter between E Man and his girlfriend, Nova Kane, inspired by movies like The Thin Man and Mr. and Mrs. North. However, he did not intend to spoof superhero comics, but present serious situations that the characters could make light of. and The Comic Reader, with a photostat illustration of the titular hero. The letter announced Charlton's re entrance into the superhero genre and promised that one third of each issue would feature a new superhero,

In 1989, Comico published an E Man one shot (Sept. 1989) by Cuti and Staton followed by a three issue miniseries (Jan. March 1990). After Comico's demise, Alpha Productions issued two one shot publications, E Man (Sept. 1993) and E Man Returns (1994). E Man appeared in the two page story "Come and Grow Old With Me", by Cuti and Staton, published in the magazine Comic Book Artist #12 (March 2001). In 2006, Cuti and Station produced three one shots released by Digital Webbing Press E Man: Recharged (Oct. 2006); E Man: Dolly (Sept. 2007); and E Man: Curse of the Idol, per its cover logo trademark, a. k. a. E Man: The Idol, as copyrighted, per its postal indicia (Nov. 2008) abetted by co writer Randy Buccini on the third. The indicia for each listed E Man as copyrighted by "Joe Staton/First Comics". A previously unpublished E Man story (done originally for Alpha Productions) by Cuti & Staton saw print in Charlton Spotlight #6 (2008) along with an unpublished Mike Mauser story. In 2011, E Man appeared in War of the Independents, a crossover mini series by Dave Ryan featuring more than 200 independent and creator owned characters. In 2014, Charlton Neo announced that Cuti and Staton were collaborating on a new three part E Man story to be published in an upcoming issue of Charlton Action, a tribute comic fanzine celebrating Charlton's legacy. Staton stated that he was approaching the project as the final E Man story. The story was finally published in three issues of a rebooted Charlton Arrow in 2017 and 2018.

E Man is a sentient packet of energy thrown off by a nova. Traveling the galaxy it learned about life, how to duplicate the appearance of life, and about good and evil. Reaching Earth, it met exotic dancer/grad student Katrinka Colchnzski (who attended Xanadu University), also known as Nova Kane, and formed itself into a superhero dubbed E Man, with a civilian identity dubbed "Alec Tronn" (electron). His emblem was the famous mass energy equivalence formula "E=mc2", and his powers included firing energy blasts from his hands and transforming his body into anything he could envision (e. g., turning his feet into jet engines so he could fly). E Man's origin was expanded by retcon in Charlton issue #10 and in the First Comics series. Nova was later caught in a nuclear explosion, gained the same powers as E Man, and became his partner; later still, she lost her powers (in a parody of X Men's Phoenix) and then regained them. During their early adventures they acquired a pet koala named Teddy Q, whose intelligence grew to the point where he had a job waiting tables in a café.