After 1967, the Immortal Man did not appear again until 17 years later in "Action Comics" #552 – #553 (February – March 1984), fighting alongside the Forgotten Heroes team in a story by Marv Wolfman and Gil Kane. This story gave the Immortal Man a new origin, one that connected him to the villain Vandal Savage. The story also removed his superhuman abilities beyond reincarnation, along with the idea that he belonged to a race of superhumans in his original life. A follow-up story appeared in "DC Comics Presents" #77 – 78 (January – February 1985) by Marv Wolfman, Curt Swan and Dave Hunt, the epilogue of which directly linked into DC Comics major cross-over event "Crisis on Infinite Earths," also written by Wolfman. In this crossover event, the Immortal Man sacrifices his immortal energies to help save Earth from destruction, seemingly bringing his life to an end at last.