Trashman is a hero of the working classes & champion of the radical left causes. The Trashman stories are set in a dystopian near-future America which, after having been ravaged by nuclear weapon attacks, has become a fascist police state, with "vast urban conglomerations. Social ferment [has] divided the land into a patchwork of virtually self-governing areas." master of the para-sciences, is able to change his molecular structure or decipher a crack in the sidewalk. Knows he a comic character.