History[]
Early Life
Jethro Dumont in the past had two alter egos, the crime fighting superhero Green Lama and the Buddhist priest Dr. Pali. He was a very rich New Yorker who decided to go to Tibet for ten years in order to study to become a Buddhist guru, or lama. It was in Tibet that he learned many mystical and magical secrets, which he combined with his scientific knowledge of how to use radioactive salts in his favor. He used these powers, along with his strong Buddhist beliefs, to fight crime.
Fighting Corruption and WWII
In 1938, while Jethro was still in the early stages of his crime fighting years, the Justice Party became elected as the new power of New York State. It was soon revealed that the party officials were controlled by powerful criminals, who quickly corrupted the local laws to their own advantage. A fascist police state was instituted and ordinary citizens were brutalized, oppressed and crushed into submission. The only people to stand up to protect the innocent were the state's masked vigilantes. In this moment, the Green Lama joined forces with various other costume vigilantes to defeat this fascist state and their leader.
Dumont meets Miss Fury
Dumont later left behind street-level crime fighting style and goes to help the Superpowers Team during World war II. After the war, the Fighting Yank was commissioned by the government and his ancestor to capture all of his former teammates in the Urn of Pandora. The Green Lama however, was unaware of this and was not trapped in the Urn as he retired to Tibet. During his long sabbatical, the Green Lama heightened his powers by becoming more in-tune with the metanatural world, allowing him to manipulate plant life to the point where he can use it to transport himself around the globe.
Sixty years into Dumont's sabbatical, the Fighting Yank and American Spirit located him, pleading with the Green Lama to help him free the heroes that he had incapacitated in the Urn. After listening to the American Spirit, the Green Lama agrees and teleported him and the Fighting Yank to New York to take the Urn from the Dynamic Family, who had it on display.
The Golden Age returns
After shattering the Urn and freeing the heroes, the Fighting Yank, joined by the newly freed Black Terror, engages the Dynamic Family. A brief battle ensues and is broken up by the Green Lama who takes over New York with his nature powers and transports them both to his land, Shangri-La. The sanctuary is short lived however, as the Dynamic Family follows the group back to Shangri-La by way of a tracer that has been placed in the Black Terror's neck. Shangri-La is soon destroyed and the Green Lama's close friend and assistant Tsarong is killed. The Superpowers are subsequently forced to flee to New York, which had been covered in vegetation by Green Lama during his last visit and is dubbed the New Shangri-La.
In the Green Lama's latest adventure, he encounters the descendant of his long time assistant, Tsarong, who calls herself Bloodlust. The Green Lama and Bloodlust then have a lengthy battle in which at many points Bloodlust badly wounds the Green Lama, enough so that he has to teleport her away in order to win. After being teleported, she ends up on a beach where she swears revenge on the man who she thinks let her ancestor die.
Invasion of Earth
Years later, Jeth finds during his meditation that something was wrong with ripples of the future, only to have the Devil crash through his window and gives him a vision of the past and a possible future that they have to avoid. After he and his allies stop a plane crash, he finds once again that his friend Bart Hill is being possessed by an unknown entity. He then gets stabbed by his former friend and later gets transported to a ship were Pandora reveals himself and kills him. Pandora later puts Dumont's body on a spear outside his ship so that anyone can see it.
After this, Jethro seems to have come back but as a new entity entirely, calling himself the White Lama and telling his friends that they can rewrite history.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Plant Control: Green Lama can control the growth of plants and use them to attack or trap his enemies.
Teleportation: Green Lama can transport himself and others through plant-based life.
Longevity: While he is approximately a century old Green Lama still has the aspect and vitality of a man in his prime.
Abilities
Weaknesses
If he is cut off from plants for too long his body will start to weaken and age.
Links[]
- 17 Appearances of Jethro Dumont (Earth-818793)
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