 the monitor is a fictional character created by writer marv wolfmanin batman and the outsiders #14 (oct. 1984), he is listed as having been "created by marv wolfman, age 38, of flushing, new york." (p. 12) and artist george pÃ©rez as one of the main characters of dc comics' crisis on infinite earths limited series. the character began appearing, along with his assistant lyla, in numerous dc comics titles beginning in 1982, three years before the crisis began in july 1985; these appearances made it seem that he was some sort of weapons dealer for supervillains. this was all part of the setup wolfman and the staff of dc comics planned for the crisis, showing the monitor currying favor with villains such as maxie zeus, prior to calling on the heroes.batman and the outsiders #14 (oct. 1984) the monitor was depicted in the shadows for all of his appearances in dc's mainstream superhero titles, and his face was first revealed in one of their few remaining non-superhero titles, the war comic g.i. combat issue #274. ==fictional character biography== ===origins=== thirteen billion years ago, the multiverse was born due to tampering with the creation of the universe by krona, a scientist from the planet maltus who was attempting to see the beginning of the universe. as a result of his actions, an infinite number of parallel universes were brought into existence side by side, separated only by minuscule vibrational differences, none of them as strong as the single universe that existed earlier would have been. monitor was born on oa's moon, apparently as the living embodiment of all positive matter universes. one of these universes was composed entirely of antimatter, and on the moon of oa's counterpart, qward, a hideous mockery of life was born from its very soil, a being that would come to be known as the anti-monitor. ====the long war==== as the evil anti-monitor conquered his universe, the monitor watched him, and when the anti-monitor sensed his presence, they began battling across the dimensional barrier in a war that lasted one million years. a simultaneous attack rendered them both unconscious, and they lay unmoving for more than nine billion years, until the monitor felt his evil counterpart awaken, as a result of another experiment on the creation of the universe by another scientist, which resulted in the d
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