One evening, a stray bolt of lightning struck a set of statues created in the image of several members from the 30th century Legion of Super-Heroes These were created in the 30th century using a duplicator ray, and given to Superboy as momentous. This process inadvertently transferred or replicated a portion of each member's powers into their respective statue, which imbued Meach with those exact powers as the green-faced Composite Superman!
Composite Men’s predecessor was a frog-like alien who while visiting Earth-One observed both Batman and Superman in action, and decided to emulate them when he returned to his home world. Becoming Super-Batman, he used his shape-shifting powers to strike terror in his foes. It was the image of this hybrid hero which, thanks to Composite Superman's telepathy from Saturn Girl, seemed to inspire his own costumed appearance which he adopted using Chameleon Lad's shape-shifting abilities.
On Earth-Two, a Nazi scientist and spymaster named Zoltan founded Zoltan's Wax Museum, and used it as a front to store and transport captured intellectuals from America. This process involved encasing each man in a waxy substance which placed each person exposed to the process into suspended animation, so that when revived each scientist would retain their mental capabilities that would be exploited by the German government. Superman, Batman and Robin tracked Zoltan down, defeating him and freeing his hostages, resuming their normal lives.
Sometime later, an alien adversary of the World's Finest Team named Xan sought revenge against the duo for their imprisoning his father, who died in prison. Xan revived Meach's Composite Superman alter ego. Superman, Batman and Robin were nearly defeated, until Meach regained his sanity and saved their lives at the cost of Composite Superman's own life. However, Xan would not stay captive for long, formulating a plan that would come to fruition years later!
Years after its former owner was captured, an unidentified museum guard (Joe Meach of Earth-Two) at Zoltan's Wax Museum grew insane, emulating various historical figures displayed such as Attila the Hun, Captain Kidd, Cesare Borgia, Genghis Khan, Goliath and Nero. Through some unspecified means, perhaps due to Zoltan's experimental waxing process, the guard gained abilities from each of the characters while wearing their costumes. The Justice Society battled each of his personas, which ultimately led to the guard’s death.
When Composite Superman reappeared years after Meach's death, neither Superman nor Batman could figure out how this was possible. In fact, Xan was able to travel through time, and expose himself to the same process which had earlier mutated his former pawn Joe. As a new incarnation of this villain, Xan soon tired of the Composite Superman alias, and assumed a new identity as Amalgamax. This time, the World's Finest Heroes recruited the aid of members of the Legion of Super-Heroes to aid in defeating him.
Over a decade later, a museum aficionado named Roger Hayden of Earth-Two sought the long lost and recently recovered Medusa Masks. Each of these masks contained the ability to unleash a series of emotions, which Hayden exposed himself to through a special process which allowed him to internalized their power within his face. As the second Psycho-Pirate, Hayde pursued a criminal career opposed by the Dynamic Duo of the Justice Society, Doctor Fate and Hourman.
To combat the pair, the Pirate unleashed a variety of former foes of Fate. These included a synthetic version green-faced Wotan. This being possessed a variety of powers, perhaps even adopting some of those of his fellow fiends which Hayden spawned from his emotion-bubbles including the sinister second Starman, Mango, Mayoor and the fishman Nyarl-Amen. Despite this, this faux-Wotan and his master Psycho Pirate were ultimately defeated by the pair of heroes.
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