Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was born on July 15, 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in a family with five older brothers and sisters. After moving with his family to Oakland, California he studied architecture at UC Berkeley before ever considering acting. While on the track team a friend recommended that he give acting a try to help him with his Stutter. After graduating with a degree in architecture, he was employed as a city planner with the city of San Francisco. After he was laid off though, him decided to try professionally acting and went to Yale School of Drama and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Abdul-Mateen has been adamant about not altering his Muslim name as he began his career, and got his big break in 2016 in the musical-drama series The Get Down, on Netflix.. Following that his next big hit ended up being a flop as he got a role in the 2017 action-comedy Baywatch. Then he got his first comic book role, as DC Comics villain Black Manta in the 2018 film Aquaman. Then in 2019 he got his second comic book character role, as he played Cal Abar, and more importantly Doctor Manhattan, in the HBO miniseries Watchmen.
And while since then he has played Morpheus in the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections, and took over the role of Candyman in 2021, he also was given the role in 2022 of Simon Williams, also known as Wonder Man, which in the amazing and well recieved show of the same name in 2026.
As we loved the role, and it’s one of his most recent works, we wanted to share our favorite Wonder Man comics.
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Avengers #9 (1964) Specifically Wonder Man’s first appearance. When he was first introduced in the comics, he joins the Avengers, but secretly he was a villain who was tasked with infiltrating the Avengers on behalf of Baron Zemo. At the end of the comic he dies. |
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Avengers #160 (1977) After his death at the hands of the Avengers, the Reaper, brother of Wonder Man, pursued a vendetta against the Avengers until he forced Black Talon to revive Wonder Man. Now that Wonder Man and Vision’s brain waves are the same, it forces the Reaper to not know which is really his brother. This goes into more detail about Wonder Man, and resets his story in a way. |
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Wonder Man #1 (1986) This comic book is probably the closest to the recent series, as it features Wonder Man becoming a celebrity and actor in the world of Marvel Comics, while also being a superhero. |
What are your favorite Wonder Man comics?
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