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In New York state, in the penitentiary complex known as Rikers Island, a prisoner was pacing back and forth in his cell late at night. It was Winslow Schott, a former video game programmer who was convicted of extorting his employers’ customer base using a subliminal hypnosis computer program. He was waiting for his cellmate, Jack Nimball, to come back from sneaking around the prison library for pertinent materials. You see, after years in prison, Winslow discovered his latent magical powers, but they aren’t strong enough for him to break out of Rikers. Nimball, who is privy to magical powers, soon came back with some books on the occult. After some time with these books, Winslow realized that his power over “anima”, ambient life energies, needed a totemic conductor to be effective. They constructed a doll-like totem for Winslow to hold, and he forced the walls barricading their cell from the outside to crumble away. With this power, Winslow and Nimball escaped Rikers and got back to the mainland from the island it was located on. However, as Nimball planned on going his separate way from Winslow, he killed Nimball to prevent him from being found by the cops and revealing Winslow’s location to them. Winslow Schott made his way to a metals, rubber, and plastics foundry that night and used his powers to take control of the molten materials to imprison the workers and security personnel. Reveling in this, Winslow used his newly discovered power to make a new totem for him to use, a fully detailed and articulate jester action figure, and began creating an army of human-sized action figures and other dangerous, titanic toys that serve his will. Winslow also decided a change of clothes was needed… A few days later, New York City was under attack by an army of human-sized toys, ranging from action figures and toy vehicles to hopping, crushing jack-in-a-boxes, razor-sharp flying puzzle pieces, dolls that hug you to death, and anything else you could imagine. At the center of this was Winslow Schott, dressed in a jester’s outfit and face paint, now calling himself The Toyman. His army of anima-infused, toy-like golems marched towards his old game studio, Toyman Studios (where Winslow took his new name from), ready to decimate it and destroy all who stood in his way. Meanwhile, in Africa, two members of the Justice League, Superman and Wonder Woman, were aiding in humanitarian efforts after a disease outbreak, when they heard about the attack on NYC from a nearby TV. They dropped what they were doing, confident the other relief efforts could finish without them at this point and flew back to NY as fast as they could (with Wonder Woman in her stealth jet). Superman called other members of the Justice League in mid-flight and made them aware of the crisis in NYC. Mike Carter, aka Booster Gold, said goodbye to his girlfriend Veronica Hunter and their young daughter Rachel, before flying off with his robot assistant Skeets. Ted Kord had to end his engineering lesson with his young student Jaime Reyes to change into his Blue Beetle identity and fly off in his ship, The Bug. Booster and Beetle met with Superman and Wonder Woman on the outskirts of NYC, along with two other JL members, The Flash and Green Lantern. The team moved into the city to co-ordinate efforts to stop this new villain. As Booster Gold and Blue Beetle helped with evacuating the civilians, our other four heroes went against Toyman. Superman confronted him first, and Winslow Schott was confused as to who this new Superman was. After all, it was the first Superman, John Kent/Jor-El, who helped bring pre-Toyman Schott to justice, while this current Superman, John’s son Clark Kent/Kal-El, replaced him when John died fighting the monster called Doomsday. Nevertheless, Superman tried to fight Toyman, but the villain’s magic-based power overwhelmed Superman, with toy military vehicles blasting anima-infused bullets and missiles at Supes and Green Lantern. Wrestler-themed, human-sized action figures battled Wonder Woman, while Flash contended with killer plush animals and ravenous, driverless tricycles. Meanwhile, Toyman rode off atop a kaiju-sized toy robot to the game studio that shunned and spurned him to begin with. The robot broke through the outer wall with a punch and grabbed Darci Mason, the woman Winslow once pined for. Darci screamed, terrified, as Toyman revealed himself as Winslow Schott to her. Darci panicked and tried to negotiate with Winslow for her safety, saying she’ll “get with him now”. Toyman refused, saying he could do anything and have anyone he wants, now, and he demonstrated this by summoning a flying swarm of puzzle pieces that formed a woman’s façade. Calling this false woman “Valerie”, Toyman sicced her on Superman, who gleefully sliced at his skin and costume with her razor-sharp, magic-infused puzzle pieces. However, a thunderous stomping was heading towards Toyman and his titanic robot toy. It was Green Lantern, who managed to defeat the toys swarming her and now has formed a monstrous, bipedal, lizard-like energy construct to lay the smackdown on Toyman’s army. They killer toys were the ones powerless this time and the energy kaiju roared in the robot’s direction. Toyman smiled and dropped Darci into the naked air, leaving Booster Gold to fly in and catch Darci before she struck the concrete. As Toyman was distracted by his own immature mindset and the energy monster, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Booster Gold, and Blue Beetle were able to defeat the remainer of the toy army. “Valerie” tried to fight and defeat the Flash, but the speedster rearranged her into a non-functional shape before she could even react. In the end, the lizard-monster created by Green Lantern fired a beam from its mouth to cleave the toy robot in twain. This caused Toyman to fall and he was caught by Superman, who also caught the totem Schott created as it fell out of his satchel and Supes smashed it in his superhuman grip. The anima ebbed from the toys, and they self-destructed as GL disassembled her energy monster. And with that, The Toyman was bested. However, this is not yet the story’s end. When Supes flew down with Winslow in his grip, a magical blast from another source launched the members of the Justice League away from the weakened Toyman. Four magic users, who we know to be the Pentacle, ran over to Toyman and opened a portal to escape with him…

Notes:

* Inspired by this: Superman of Tomorrow: Toyman
* In the original comics, Jack Nimball was one of Toyman’s alter egos, one who influenced the costume for Schott here.

* Winslow Schott is a Homo magi, a human born with magic powers, but was a late bloomer when it came to developing his powers.

* “Valerie”, the puzzle piece golem that served Toyman, is based on “the Puzzler”, a Superman villain from the original comics.

Description

In New York state, in the penitentiary complex known as Rikers Island, a prisoner was pacing back and forth in his cell late at night. It was Winslow Schott, a former video game programmer who was convicted of extorting his employers’ customer base using a subliminal hypnosis computer program. He was waiting for his cellmate, Jack Nimball, to come back from sneaking around the prison library for pertinent materials. You see, after years in prison, Winslow discovered his latent magical powers, but they aren’t strong enough for him to break out of Rikers. Nimball, who is privy to magical powers, soon came back with some books on the occult. After some time with these books, Winslow realized that his power over “anima”, ambient life energies, needed a totemic conductor to be effective. They constructed a doll-like totem for Winslow to hold, and he forced the walls barricading their cell from the outside to crumble away. With this power, Winslow and Nimball escaped Rikers and got back to the mainland from the island it was located on. However, as Nimball planned on going his separate way from Winslow, he killed Nimball to prevent him from being found by the cops and revealing Winslow’s location to them. Winslow Schott made his way to a metals, rubber, and plastics foundry that night and used his powers to take control of the molten materials to imprison the workers and security personnel. Reveling in this, Winslow used his newly discovered power to make a new totem for him to use, a fully detailed and articulate jester action figure, and began creating an army of human-sized action figures and other dangerous, titanic toys that serve his will. Winslow also decided a change of clothes was needed… A few days later, New York City was under attack by an army of human-sized toys, ranging from action figures and toy vehicles to hopping, crushing jack-in-a-boxes, razor-sharp flying puzzle pieces, dolls that hug you to death, and anything else you could imagine. At the center of this was Winslow Schott, dressed in a jester’s outfit and face paint, now calling himself The Toyman. His army of anima-infused, toy-like golems marched towards his old game studio, Toyman Studios (where Winslow took his new name from), ready to decimate it and destroy all who stood in his way. Meanwhile, in Africa, two members of the Justice League, Superman and Wonder Woman, were aiding in humanitarian efforts after a disease outbreak, when they heard about the attack on NYC from a nearby TV. They dropped what they were doing, confident the other relief efforts could finish without them at this point and flew back to NY as fast as they could (with Wonder Woman in her stealth jet). Superman called other members of the Justice League in mid-flight and made them aware of the crisis in NYC. Mike Carter, aka Booster Gold, said goodbye to his girlfriend Veronica Hunter and their young daughter Rachel, before flying off with his robot assistant Skeets. Ted Kord had to end his engineering lesson with his young student Jaime Reyes to change into his Blue Beetle identity and fly off in his ship, The Bug. Booster and Beetle met with Superman and Wonder Woman on the outskirts of NYC, along with two other JL members, The Flash and Green Lantern. The team moved into the city to co-ordinate efforts to stop this new villain. As Booster Gold and Blue Beetle helped with evacuating the civilians, our other four heroes went against Toyman. Superman confronted him first, and Winslow Schott was confused as to who this new Superman was. After all, it was the first Superman, John Kent/Jor-El, who helped bring pre-Toyman Schott to justice, while this current Superman, John’s son Clark Kent/Kal-El, replaced him when John died fighting the monster called Doomsday. Nevertheless, Superman tried to fight Toyman, but the villain’s magic-based power overwhelmed Superman, with toy military vehicles blasting anima-infused bullets and missiles at Supes and Green Lantern. Wrestler-themed, human-sized action figures battled Wonder Woman, while Flash contended with killer plush animals and ravenous, driverless tricycles. Meanwhile, Toyman rode off atop a kaiju-sized toy robot to the game studio that shunned and spurned him to begin with. The robot broke through the outer wall with a punch and grabbed Darci Mason, the woman Winslow once pined for. Darci screamed, terrified, as Toyman revealed himself as Winslow Schott to her. Darci panicked and tried to negotiate with Winslow for her safety, saying she’ll “get with him now”. Toyman refused, saying he could do anything and have anyone he wants, now, and he demonstrated this by summoning a flying swarm of puzzle pieces that formed a woman’s façade. Calling this false woman “Valerie”, Toyman sicced her on Superman, who gleefully sliced at his skin and costume with her razor-sharp, magic-infused puzzle pieces. However, a thunderous stomping was heading towards Toyman and his titanic robot toy. It was Green Lantern, who managed to defeat the toys swarming her and now has formed a monstrous, bipedal, lizard-like energy construct to lay the smackdown on Toyman’s army. They killer toys were the ones powerless this time and the energy kaiju roared in the robot’s direction. Toyman smiled and dropped Darci into the naked air, leaving Booster Gold to fly in and catch Darci before she struck the concrete. As Toyman was distracted by his own immature mindset and the energy monster, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Booster Gold, and Blue Beetle were able to defeat the remainer of the toy army. “Valerie” tried to fight and defeat the Flash, but the speedster rearranged her into a non-functional shape before she could even react. In the end, the lizard-monster created by Green Lantern fired a beam from its mouth to cleave the toy robot in twain. This caused Toyman to fall and he was caught by Superman, who also caught the totem Schott created as it fell out of his satchel and Supes smashed it in his superhuman grip. The anima ebbed from the toys, and they self-destructed as GL disassembled her energy monster. And with that, The Toyman was bested. However, this is not yet the story’s end. When Supes flew down with Winslow in his grip, a magical blast from another source launched the members of the Justice League away from the weakened Toyman. Four magic users, who we know to be the Pentacle, ran over to Toyman and opened a portal to escape with him…

Notes:

* Inspired by this: Superman of Tomorrow: Toyman
* In the original comics, Jack Nimball was one of Toyman’s alter egos, one who influenced the costume for Schott here.

* Winslow Schott is a Homo magi, a human born with magic powers, but was a late bloomer when it came to developing his powers.

* “Valerie”, the puzzle piece golem that served Toyman, is based on “the Puzzler”, a Superman villain from the original comics.