The adult Legion then openly defy Westfield and ponder quitting Cadmus.ĭabney Donovan, still insane, returns multiple times to plague Cadmus, such as capturing the adult Legion and subjecting them to various torments. He takes the only copy of the DNA into space. Auron almost kills the clones, causing them to crash land in the Habitat, before his Guardian memories come to the forefront. After the nearest approximation of his DNA is created, Westfield has a Guardian clone named Auron assault the Newsboy Legion clones and their adult "fathers" in an effort to acquire it. After Superman's death at the hands of Doomsday, Westfield had Superman's body stolen and worked upon by the scientists of Cadmus in The Legacy of Superman #1 (1993). Ĭadmus is run for a time by Director Westfield. As before, another prominent staff member is Dubbilex, a "DNAlien" with telepathic powers. A clone of Guardian, another long-time hero, works at the facility. Superboy is subsequently freed by the clones of the Newsboy Legion, who now, as adults, are all working for Cadmus. It was responsible for the creation of the new Superboy, cloned from genetic material obtained from both Superman and Lex Luthor (originally, the human DNA was identified as that of Project director Paul Westfield). The Post-Crisis version made its first appearance in Superman (vol. This would allow Darkseid and his lackeys like Simyan and Mokkari to rule over their surroundings.įollowing the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Project was reintroduced as Project Cadmus, named after the Greek legend of Cadmus, who created warriors from the teeth of a dragon.īefore creating the DNA Project, Kirby had written a cloning story called "The Cadmus Seed" in Alarming Tales. They are constantly creating entities to assist Darkseid in mastering the Anti-Life Equation, clues of which exist on Earth. They form a scientific enclave called "Brigadoom" as a means of pleasing Darkseid by creating an army of monstrous genetic constructs. Dabney Donovan, they develop a great deal of hatred towards all humanity. They were originally created at Project Cadmus, but due to the cruelty of the experimentation they experienced at the hands of Dr. The Project has an "opposite number" in the form of the Evil Factory, a monster-creating project set up by Darkseid as part of Intergang and run by two of his servants called Simyan and Mokkari. Prior to moving to the mountain, the Hairies lived in a forest of living tree-houses called the Habitat, which is right outside some of Cadmus' main facilities. The Hairies live outside the direct control of Cadmus, living inside a mobile "Mountain of Judgement" that constantly keeps them hidden from the affairs of both Cadmus and society in general.
There are also "step-ups" who call themselves "the Hairies", super hippies who have developed an evolved knowledge-base and developed transport and defense technology beyond the understanding of modern-day humans. One of the DNAliens named Dubbilex became a prominent staff member. Donovan had largely been accredited for the non-human creations of the Project, referred to as "DNAliens", various normal clones, and monsters based on Donovan's favorite horror films (who lived on a small artificial planet on Earth called Transilvane). ĭabney Donovan was ultimately fired from the Project because he felt there should never be limits in understanding the potential of the genetic code. Exploration soon uncovered a vast array of caverns close to the facilities.
The Cadmus facilities were originally constructed in a large, abandoned aqueduct outside of Metropolis.
Project Cadmus was founded by Dabney Donovan, Reginald Augustine, and Thomas Thompkins. Project Cadmus was created by Jack Kirby as the DNA Project in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (October 1970), and was run by the former Newsboy Legion. Its 31st-century descendants run the Justice League 3000 clone project. Its notable creations included the Golden Guardian (a clone of the original Guardian), Auron (another clone of the original Guardian), Superboy (Kon-El) (a binary clone made from the DNA of Superman and Lex Luthor), and Dubbilex and his fellow DNAliens. Project Cadmus is a fictional genetic engineering project in the DC Comics Universe. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (October 1970) For the South African non-profit organisation, see National Forensic DNA Database of South Africa.
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