The Winslow Schott version of Toyman first appeared in Action Comics #64 (September 1943) and was created by Don Cameron and Ed Dobrotka.

[2] The Jack Nimball version of Toyman first appeared in Action Comics #432 (February 1974) and was created by Cary Bates and Curt Swan.

While at first more of a nuisance, Toyman gradually grew more emotionally unstable and paranoid over time, his toys following suit by becoming a lot more dangerous.

Although Winslow Schott in his civilian persona was a rather sweet, humble, quirky (if socially withdrawn) person, as Toyman he turned into a childish, destructive megalomaniac.

During the 1970s Winslow was effectively retired from crime, but he kept contact with Superman and even helped out to take down Jack Nimball, who he felt sullied the Toyman legacy.

This retirement proved to be tragically short, as not long after Winslow put some of his toys on display (a suggestion by Superman), the entire museum exhibition was completely wrecked.

Eventually it is revealed that the real culprit was Bizarro, in search of the duplicator ray, but by then it was already too late: Schott had already returned to his criminal ways, murdered Jack Nimball and a hotel door guard in cold blood, and built a giant robot to terrorize the city.

After that incident Winslow's mental state grew even worse, and while he often made several legitimate attempts to atone for his sins, he would often relapse back into madness.

He uses his toymaking talents to seek revenge, which eventually causes him to cross paths with the British hero Godiva, and subsequently, Superman himself.

"[7] Toyman later seemingly recovered, and Superman showed him that children did appreciate old-fashioned toys, arranging parole in an orphanage; it was later revealed, however, that this was all a hallucination caused when Zatanna attempted to cure him and he had, in fact, returned to child abduction.

This was confirmed in Superman Secret Files and Origins 2009, although Jimmy initially expressed doubt that Schott was telling the truth.

[12] The Dollmaker eventually reveals himself to be the abandoned son of Winslow, who has been kidnapping children and using macabre experiments to turn them into slaves.

With her gag temporarily removed, Cat is able to call Supergirl for help, and the two are able to defeat the Dollmaker and free the children he had enslaved.

[13] In the 1970s, a man named Jack Nimball assumes the identity of the second Toyman during a period in which Schott had retired from his criminal career and first appeared in Action Comics #432 (February 1974).

Schott killed Nimball with a mechanical toy bird and resumed his criminal career in Superman #305 (November 1976).

[18] In 2011, Mattel released a DC Universe Classics 6" Toyman figure based on the Jack Nimball version of the character.

He shows up in Metropolis in a giant Superman Robot fighting Metallo, claiming that the cyborg's body was based on material stolen from his grandfather.

In Superman/Batman #26, Okamura fakes his own kidnapping at the hands of Schott, forcing Superboy and Robin to search through his complex to save his life.

His offer becomes a necessity as Lana Lang, in a last-ditch effort to get rid of Kryptonians and keep LexCorp afloat, turns a set of kryptonite caches into "dirty bombs", which irradiate the entire planet.

[26] He later appears as a confidant at his Toymaster Gameshop for a witness named Condesa to Clark Kent and Lois Lane's story on HODOR_Root, in which he agrees to help them.

Toyman surfaces in Metropolis and allies with Lex Luthor in Action Comics #837 (May 2006) as part of the One Year Later 'Up, Up, and Away' story arc.

His appearance, inspired by the character's Superman: The Animated Series incarnation,[citation needed] is that of a child-sized doll.

As part of his bargain with Luthor, he is given the information needed to find his creator Winslow Schott in exchange for assistance in a plot against Superman.

The Toywoman is the gender-inverted version of Winslow Schott, the criminal known as Toyman, created by Mister Mxyzptlk to serve as an enemy to his creation of Superwoman.

by Alan Moore, Toyman and Prankster are unwittingly manipulated by Mister Mxyzptlk to discover Superman's secret identity.

After managing to unmask Clark Kent in front of Lana Lang and others by machine-gunning him and revealing his costume beneath his clothes, Toyman and Prankster are captured.

[35] When the Justice League storm the Hall of Doom, Toyman uses his marionette and the city's toys to attack them, but they destroy the former before Superman locates Schott.