Fictional character biography
Anthro is the first caveboy born in the Stone Age.[5] His father, Cro-Magnon (or Neanderthal) caveman Ne-Ahn, is the chief of his tribe; his mother, a captive member of another tribe. Winning two competing cavegirls as his wives, Cro-Magnon women Embra and Nima, Anthro begins the human race, as Embra lives to bear his first child.
Justice League Europe Annual #2 features a version of Anthro. In an alternate time-line, an older Silver Sorceress, lost in time, is rescued from a large creature by Anthro. He exhibits great eagerness, smashing the beast long after it is subdued. A bored cavegirl, either Embra or Nima, joins the Sorceress in watching Anthro's 'battle'.
Anthro is featured in the graphic novel Doctor Thirteen: Architecture & Mortality, where he is frozen in ice and resurrected in the modern day.[2]
In Final Crisis, the New God Metron appears before Anthro and gives him the knowledge and skill to make fire. Anthro then fights off a group of savage raiders led by Vandal Savage using a burning stick.[6] In the final issue of Final Crisis, Anthro appears as an old man, drawing the symbols he saw on Metron's body on a cave wall. As he finishes drawing, he dies peacefully, watched over by a time-displaced Bruce Wayne.[7] The after-effects of Anthro's death on his friends and family is explored in the limited series Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne.
In Dark Nights: Death Metal, Anthro is among the superheroes whom Batman resurrects using a Black Lantern ring.[8]
