The Legion of Superheroes just became much stronger since Italman joined the organization. Italman is an Italian superhero with amazing super Italian super powers and this is his story.

Italman became a superhero purely by accident. You see, Italman’s other day to day identity is Guido Mangalia who is a food scientist who worked at The National Research Center in New Lark City. Guido was in the food lab one day working on his invention, The Food Flavour Enhancer. It was a small walk in chamber with a table in it. Guido was experimenting with Italian food that day. Guido was loading up the food chamber table with various Italian foods when in walked Bobo the monkey. Bobo was from the lab next door where the other scientist was studying animal behaviour. Bobo could see Guido in the chamber through the glass door. Bobo wandered up to the control panel of The Enhancer and pushed various buttons as he was used to doing in the lab he lived in. All of a sudden, the door locked and The Enhancer was turned on!

Guido was never the same again. He had developed Italian food related superpowers. The food chemistry combined with his own body chemistry to form a superhuman chemistry.

By eating any Italian food product, Guido would transform from being an ordinary food scientist to being a superhero. Guido decided he would use his special powers to fight crime and evil. He even designed himself a superhero costume for this super identity of his. The costume consisted of a green cape, a white top and red tights with red boots. When Italman ran by at super speed, you could see the flying colours of the Italian flag!

Guido had installed a police scanner in his lab so that he could listen to police calls and spring into action when a crime was being committed. Guido was working away in his lab when he heard an urgent call over the police scanner, “We got a 10-72 in progress at the Central Bank on Bank Street, all units respond immediately!” Guido knew that a 10-72 meant an armed robbery was in progress so he donned his Italman costume and ate a piece of provolone cheese and pow! He went from being Guido to being Italman!

Italman got into his modified Ferrari and sped through the New Lark City streets. The Ferrari was modified so that it ran on extra virgin olive oil which gave it super speed and also was environmentally friendly because the oil gave off natural olive fumes as it burned. As Italman drove by people would wonder, “Is someone frying something in olive oil?” Then somebody else would respond, “No, that’s Italman cruising by in his special Ferrari!”

Italman got there before any police had arrived. He entered the bank and could see that the bank robbers had taken hostages and were heavily armed. Italman had to think of the innocent bystanders’ safety first. As Italman came in the entrance, a robber pointed a machine gun at him. Italman had developed a sort of narrow tube down the side of his right arm and right hand which acted as a chute for his Super Italian Food to come out of. As the robber took aim at Italman, Italman pointed his right hand at the robber. With lightening speed out shot strands of Super Spaghetti from his chute. The strands wrapped around the robber’s arm and hand and then hardened into a steel like hardness thus stopping the robber from shooting at Italman!

As Italman proceeded into the bank there was another robber ready to do in Italman. Italman aimed his right hand at the robber and out came Super Minced Garlic in a great white cloud that surrounded the robber’s head. The garlic odour was so overwhelming that the robber passed out from the garlic fumes! Italman then used the Super Spaghetti to tie up the robber. Another one down!

All of a sudden, Italman was confronted by two robbers that were both ready to shoot him with high powered rifles. Italman had to move fast! Italman aimed his right hand at the robbers and out came some Super Gnocchi which entered the barrels of the rifles and caused the bullets to jam up! The Super Italian Food was working! Only problem was that Italman was getting a very strong craving for Italian food!

How many robbers were there? It seemed like the robbers were from the Bank Robbers or Us Gang which was known to send in multiple members of the gang to pull off a bank job. Lo and behold, three more robbers were running toward Italman so that they could shoot him at close range. Italman aimed his right hand at the robbers and out came some Super Tomato Sauce which covered the floor in front of the robbers. Of course, the robbers could not run on top of the tomato sauce so they slipped and fell and knocked each other out as their heads banged together. Three more down! How many more to go?

This time, the robber confronting Italman was standing between a little old lady and a young woman with a baby in her arms. Italman had to disable the robber without endangering them. The robber raised his gun to aim at Italman. Just then, Italman quickly aimed his right hand at the robber and out came a flood of Super Polenta. The Super Polenta piled up around the robber until his head was the only thing not covered. The Super Polenta then dried into a rock hard mass thereby completely trapping the robber.

The little old lady and the young woman with the baby exclaimed, “Great work Italman!”

Next was a line up of four robbers all aiming to shot Italman. How was Italman going to stop all four of them? Italman quickly took aim and produced Super Flying Pizzas out of his food chute. The pizzas flew into the line of robbers and because of their Super Hard Crust, knocked out all four of them! How many robbers were left? Italman looked around and counted ten remaining robbers who were all very agitated and ready to put an end to Italman’s heroics!

It was time to use the heavy artillery, thought Italman. Again, careful not to hit any of the innocent bystanders, Italman took aim at one of the robbers. His food chute became a Super Meatball Machine Gun! Rat-a-tat-tat went the Meatball Machine Gun and by the time Italman was finished, all the robbers were Meatball Machine Gunned out of commission! Another day and Italman had saved the day!

Then the police arrived and hauled all of the robbers into a large prisoner bus. All the civilians in the bank started chanting, “Italman, is our hero, Italman is our hero!” Then the Mayor of New Lark City arrived and thanked Italman for his heroics. The Mayor then suggested that they go out for dinner to discuss a crime prevention plan for the city. The Mayor asked Italman, “What kind of food are you in the mood for?” Italman excitedly replied, “Italian food of course!” They both laughed heartily!

This has been the adventures of Italman. Who knows when or where Italman’s next adventure will be?