Origins: Ultra Man, Ultra Woman, Polaris and A White Out

 Back in the late 1960s when Kotar and Sabuta were still young, a strange event took place in a Bristol department store.   These days a "White Out" in comics is nothing rare but back then a "white out" usually meant a fog t6hat was lit up by street lights and in which you could see nothing. Sounded like a fun term to me back then.

The dream I had involved a department store and people going about their business. Cathy, Steven and  Paul Lloyd were three such people -brothers and sister. Without warning everything went white -probably only for a split second but everyone in the department store seemed unaffected. The trio were stumped. All three also noticed that their hair had turned white and looking around saw the odd shopper and staff member had similar.

Within days Paul noticed that he had developed strange powers and began testing them out. When he sat down to tell his siblings he was shocked to find they also had special powers and eventually (being a tad slow) realised that everything had started after the white out and their hair changing to white.

Paul (later to become Ultra Man) heard about thefts that seemed to have been committed by a person with special powers AND white hair. Initially he suspected Steven even though he could not believe it. As is usual in such stories each of the Lloyds had thought the same thing but realising they were on a wild goose chase realised that if the thief had special powers and white hair then he must have been in the department store during the white out

Initially wearing masks, Paul became Ultra Man, Cathy Ultra Woman and Steve Polaris. Their adventures would follow them tracking down anyone from the department store who had white hair and finding the various customers affected. None of them suspecting that a crook had been tracking them down when he realised the same thing.

Eventually the trio became more public and Polaris joined the Special Globe Guard; during the Return of the Gods storyline he seemingly gave his life stopping an alien invasion craft.Ultra Man and Ultra Woman were both active during that story as well as The Green Skies.