Robert Reed (New Earth)
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HistoryEdit
The original owner of the H-Dial is Robert "Robby" Reed, a teenager from Littleville, Colorado, who discovers the dial in a cavern. Resembling an old telephone dial, this device is hand-held and covered in unknown symbols (that somehow Robby was able to understand as modern letters.) How the dial got there or who created it is never revealed. Each time he dials the letters H-E-R-O, Robby finds he turns into a different superpowered being; dialing O-R-E-H makes him revert to his normal form. He quickly uses it to protect Littleville under the guises of numerous superheroes.
Robby's H-Dial was once used by his foe, Daffy Dagan, who briefly becomes a supervillain known as Daffy the Great after dialing V-I-L-L-A-I-N.[1] Robby's girlfriend Suzie uses the dial, dialing H-E-R-O-I-N-E to temporarily transform into Gem Girl. In the end, Suzie receives a blow to the head that causes her to forget about the secret of the device.[2]
Eventually, Robby stopped using the Dial, developing partial amnesia. He later found it again and dialled once more, but the Dial had become rusty and the damaged Dial transformed Robby into a deranged duplicate of Plastic Man, a hero whose identity Robby had assumed once before. The real Plastic Man defeated his doppelganger and confiscated the H-Dial, judging Robby too irresponsible to own it, though Robby later apparently regained it under unrevealed circumstances.
Still later, with the Dial apparently working normally again, Robby used it to transform himself into two people: unfortunately, the result was the creation of two entirely separate entities, the Master and the Wizard, who represented the good and evil sides of Reed's personality, neither remembering who they really were. Robby was eventually restored to normal by Chris King and Vicki Grant, the holders of two newer H-Dials created by the Wizard. Reed gave his original Dial to Grant and King's friend Nick Stevens, though many years later an older Robby (who had somehow ended up in prison) tracked down the Dial once more in order to keep it out of the wrong hands (evidently believing, despite all past evidence to the contrary, that his were the right hands) and ended up internalizing its power within his own body.
Powers and AbilitiesEdit
Abilities
Can use the H-Dial to transform into different superheroes.
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NotesEdit
Robby's eventual recovery of the Dial as an adult may or may not still be in continuity. No specific time frame was ever given for these events.
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- 34 Appearances of Robert Reed (New Earth)
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Footnotes
  This character is or was primarily an enemy of the bearers of the Hero Dial; Robby Reed, Chris King and Vicki Grant. This template will categorize articles that include it into the category "Dial H for Hero Villains." |
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