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Maa-gor The last of the Savage Land Ape Men tribe who rose to the position as leader of the Swamp-Men. As such, he kidnapped Marvel Girl and Angel, tried to kill Daredevil, and later led the attack on Skull Island and drove Plunderer from the Savage Land, rescued by Namor when the island exploded. He is large and hairy, leaning definitely to the sub-human side of evolution, and, although not terribly bright, is crafty and cunning and a long running foe of the jungle lord, Ka-Zar.
First appearance: UXM #10

Maarin (see: Mekkan) Home planet of Torgo II. Almost destroyed by the Skrulls when their greatest champion refuses to kill the Thing at the Great Games. Later revealed that this was the name of the planet when the Mekkans' biological creators where still the dominant species, but, after a plague wiped them all out, their robotic servants continued on and renamed the planet to a more appropriate name.
First mention: FF1 #91 First appearance: FF1 #174

Mac NYC police officer who was one of the patrols responding to the fight between Gladiator and Daredevil on the docks who ends up escorting Karen Page back to the offices of Nelson and Murdock.
First appearance: DD1 #18

Mac One of the guards at the Cape that tries to take Captain Marvel I into custody over questions of his loyalty only to see the hero fade before his eyes (using his new teleporting ability).
First appearance: CM1 #14

Mac One of the police officers who pursue Captain America I (whose body had been traded with that of the Red Skull via the cosmic Cube) from the roadblock he tried to run, and then thought it strange when he thought the expert driving resembled that of the star spangled hero.
First appearance: CAP1 #116

Maccabee The large, super strong humanoid enforcer of the Imperial Gamesman in the gladiatorial games on Homeworld.
First appearance: MIC AN #1

Mace, Gideon A costumed criminal working out of the Bronx who, with his right hand covered with a spiked metal ball, set about the job of killing super beings. He started with local hero, White Tiger, and lured him into his death trap by killing his entire family.
First appearance: SSM #50

Macey, Col. Officer in the Cape Canaveral base police who responds to the alarm set off when the Micronauts escape from Prof. Phillip Prometheus' lab at HELL.
First appearance: MIC1 #6

Machete (Ferdinand Lopez) GA: Batroc's Brigade II.
First appearance: CAP1 #302

Machine Man (Aaron Stack form. X-51, Mister Machine) One of the X-Model robots created by the Project (Institute of Computer Robotics) that was given a human face and raised as the son of Dr. Abel Stack instead of like a machine, which saved him from the fatal identity crisis that plagued and was the destruction of the others. After encountering the Monolith, he went out into the world to seek his destiny and to embark on a career as a super hero, later adopting a human duel identity working in an ad agency. His body, although humanoid in appearance, is riddled with all sorts of tools and weapons. He can negate gravity, impersonate other voices, his arms and legs extend to great length, pick locks, etc.
First appearance: MM #1

Machinesmith (deceased) (Samuel 'Starr' Saxon form. Mister Fear II) Mister Fear turns back to his original vocation of robot building. It is revealed that after his 'demise' as Mr. Fear against Daredevil that his robot servants saved him by investing his mind into a computer, with which he controls his many robot doubles. he tricks Captain America I into destroying this computer and in essence killing him.
First appearance: MTO #47 Died: CAP1 #249

Machus An alternate 23rd century Earth ruled by Mahkizmo where the men are the dominant race and women are slaves, and whose people are at war with the Famizons, whose world is the exact opposite. They were the creators of the the Statis Cage and the Domina-Ray, and bred the Three-who-wait and the Rampager for their gladiatorial games. The death of Mahkizmo caused an explosion that somehow combined both worlds making both sexes equal. It's members include Mahkizmo [first seen member], Gagnor [FF1 #152].
First appearance (described by Thundra): FF1 #151 1st actual appearance: FF1 #152

MacIntosh, Ann Classifieds solicitor for the Daily Bugle.
First appearance: ASM An. #18

Mack, Collier A member of the unit that was sent into the Plateau Dus Bolovens in Cambodia, during the Vietnam War, looking to create a landing base, but instead he and his compatriots stumbled across the Temple of the Dragon's Breadth. They were forced by the high priestess, Tai, into the Pact, wherein, they were all to wed daughters of the Cult, the production of centuries of selective breeding, to create offspring that would possess powers that would allow them to harness the Well of All Things and become the rulers of the world. Pvt. Mack, like most of the others, participated, and he and his 'wife' produced a son who, as an adult, became a costumed vigilante with his unrealized powers, and eventually was recruited into the Folding Circle with the rest of the Pact offspring. REL: Father of Smiling Tiger. GA: Half Fulls.
First appearance: NW #23

Mack, Porter Construction worker who, with his crew, mistake the X-Men for the bad guys when they are attacking Lucifer's hideout in Buchanan's Butte.
First appearance: UXM #21

Mack, Stan A student at ESU who was in the long line occupied also by Barbara (Valkyrie III) Norris when she was registering for classes.
First appearance: DEF #51

MacLain, Dr. Myron Scientist who is credited with the discovery of Adamantium.
First appearance: AV1 #66

Macon One of the Hellfire Club Mercenaries who was viciously and critically wounded by Wolverine during his one man siege of the prestigious club to free his captured team mates, the X-Men. Possibly the one who gets the drop on Wolverine in the upper floors and gets tossed like a ragdoll. He was later rebuilt as a cyborg by Donald Pierce and made a member of the mutant hating (particularly Wolverine) band of mercenaries. GA: Reavers I.
First appearance (unnamed): UXM #133 Named: UXM #?

Macone, Joey A NYC police officer who is noted for taking risks while on the job. After nearly getting killed running down some counterfeiters, his wife made him promise to take it a little more safely. Unfortunately, soon after, the Beetle invaded police headquarters to regain his lost money, and, when Spider-Man began to lose ground to the villain, Joey had to break his promise to save the hero's life. When he is promoted to detective, his wife walks away from the ceremony and it can only be assumed that she was leaving him. REL: Husband of Mary Anne Macone.
First appearance: SSM #16

Macone, Mary Anne The wife of a NYC police officer who. although proud of her husband's accomplishments, is terrified of the day when his risky actions eventually get him killed. After stopping some counterfeiters and nearly being killed, she forces him to promise not to take so many risks in the future. He is forced to break the promise soon after to save the life of Spider-Man, and, at the ceremony that raises him to the grade of detective, she walks away, presumably leaving him. REL: Wife of Joey Macone.
First appearance: SSM #16

Mac-Ray Moving Co. The moving company that was hired by the Defenders to switch their HQ from the Sanctum Sanctorum in NYC to the Richmond Riding Academy in Queens.
First appearance: DEF #46

MacTaggert, Joseph Sr. (Deceased) A wealthy member of British Parliament (hoping one day to be Prime Minister) living in Edinburgh who refused to divorce his Nobel winning wife because of the political clout her name lends his. Although he can be charming, he is a jerk of the first water, and when his wife comes to warn him about their son, who had recently escaped from Muir Island, he brushed her off. He pays for the slight when, shortly after her departure, his son arrives and takes possession of his body, killing him and eventually burning out his body, which formed a strange symbiosis with the host. REL: Husband of Moira MacTaggert. Father of Proteus II.
First appearance and death: UXM #127

MacTaggert, Dr. Moira (Moira MacTaggart) Foremost geneticist specializing in mutant physiology, particularly those with super human powers, founder and head of the Muir Island Institute, first human to contract the legacy virus, old fiancée of Prof. X, later romantically involved with Banshee. She was first introduced, with her strong Scottish accent, as the housekeeper at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters to cover for Prof. X who was taking an unscheduled vacation (due to the telepathic dreams from Lilandra) and intended to leave her there in charge. Later, when the team first visited Muir Island, her real credentials were revealed. When Magneto had been turned into an infant by Alpha II, he had been placed in her care until he was restored by Eric The Red II. She was also given the custody of Dragonfly and was caring for Jamie Madrox. After the ordeal with D'Ken Neramani and the M'Kraan Crystal, Prof. X was back on he mend, and Moira, deciding that she'd neglected her duties long enough, left the team [UXM #110]. Later she officially adopted Rahne (Wolfbane) Sinclaire. REL: Daughter of Lord Kinross. Widow of Joseph MacTaggert. Mother of Proteus II.
First appearance: UXM #96 Name changed to MacTaggert in UXM #110

MacWhirter, Angus (deceased) The proprietor of a boat rental business in Stornoway off the coast of Scotland who had reserved a hovercraft for Moira MacTaggert, but when the X-Men, in costume arrived to take the vehicle to Muir Island, his mutant hating side surfaced and not only did he not allow them to take the hovercraft, he tried to keep their money as well. The team took it anyway, and the hovercraft was destroyed by Magneto before they reached shore. Harboring a massive grudge for the team even though he was well compensated for his loss, when Moira and the crew were in Edinburgh for the holidays, he went out to the island to exact revenge in the form of several explosive charges and insted of getting some of his own back was attacked and killed by Mutant X/Proteus II.
First appearance: UXM #104 Died: UXM #119

Madame Hydra (see: Viper II) The sexy but deadly Hydra agent that was at first the leader of a small contingent that was supposed to contaminate the water supply of NYC, but was thwarted by Captain America's newest partner, Bucky IV, who stumbled across her operation by mistake. Soon after, she attempted revenge, not only almost killing Cap, but the Avengers and the heads of SHIELD as well before her own Hunter Missile doubled back on her. She was made an orphan early in life form an explosion that took the lives of her parents during the revolution in strife torn Europe and also left the side of her face scarred (over which she always wears her hair). For years she struggled to survive until she hooked up with Hydra and quickly started rising in their ranks until she became the Supreme Hydra of the NY sector. Later she broke off from Hydra and took the name by which she is currently known.
First appearance: CAP1 #110 Origin: CAP1 #113

Madame Hydra VI Subversive working for Hydra, now in a sanitarium.
First appearance: NFvsS LTD #3

Madame MacEvil (Heather Douglas see: Moondragon) The name adopted by Heather Douglas when she first returned to Earth and her hot tempter and superiority caused her to class with Iron Man and started her down the path of her first taste of being a criminal. REL: Daughter of Yvette and Arthur (Drax) Douglas. Cousin of Sundragon.
First appearance: IM #54

Madame Macabre The proclaimed daughter of a rickshaw driver in China was taken under the wing of the Mandarin and set out on a life of crime on her own when she developed her own size altering technology. With an electronic device she kept in her wig, she was able to enlarge and shrink her special plastic "toys" fashioned by her loyal servant, Gogo, but wanted to steal the abilities of Giant Man I whose powers could also affect organic materials. When her offer of partnership was refused, she lured GM to her by kidnapping Wasp, but the two of them together defeated her and she went to prison. Her powers were purported to have been gained while she was studying at a lamasery where her benefactor had sent her, but her hidden electronic circuits where uncovered in the tussle with Hank and Jan.
First appearance and origin: TtA1 #66

Madame Masque (Countess Giulietta Nefaria, Whitney Frost, Kristine 'Krissy' Longfellow, form. Big M. see: the Director) Head of the Nefaria family Maggia who hides her damaged face behind a gold mask, later becomes a love interest for Iron Man I which causes jealousy between him and Jasper Sitwell, who is also in love with her. REL: Daughter of Count Nefaria and Countess Renata Nefaria. Adoptive daughter of Byron and Loretta Frost. GA: Maggia.
First appearance: IM1 #17 Origin: IM1 #19

Madame Olga A failed actress turned huckster who runs the fortune telling booth at the Quentin Carnival with her $1.98 mystic crystal. She is wheelchair bound and has no real precognitive powers. In her first appearance, she purchases an ancient bowl candle and unwittingly ushers the Wind Witch into this world, but she with the help of Ghost Rider IV are able to drive her back. When Adam Henderson possessed by the entity Null came to her tent, she got her first taste of real fortune telling when he conveyed his origin to her and how he came to be in this man's body, scaring the socks off of her [GHR2 #71].
First appearance: GHR2 #66

Madame Web (Cassandra Web) An invalid who possesses psychic sensory powers. REL: Widow of Jonathan Webb.
First appearance: ASM #210

Maddicks, Arthur 'Artie' Mute, juvenile mutant with various telepathic abilities, including the ability to produce pictures of what he's thinking that others can see, often in the company of Leech. REL: Son of Dr. Carl Maddicks. GA: X-Factor, New Mutants, X-Terminators.
First appearance: XFAC #2

Maddicks, Dr. Carl (Deceased) REL: Father of Artie Maddicks.
First appearance: XFAC #2?

Mad Dog (form. Robert 'Buzz' Baxter) Buzz obtains super powers to compete with his ex-wife. Former agent of Roxxon. REL: Ex-husband of Hellcat.
First appearance; DEF #125

Mad Pharaoh (King Hatap) An evil, Egyptian king from 31 BC who attempted a rebellion against Cleopatra and, when it failed, took a potion that put him into suspended animation for 2000 years. Upon waking, he kidnapped Tony Stark with the intention of forcing him to make weapons that would defeat the Greek queen and brought him back to his century. As Iron Man I, Stark quickly took sides with the opposition and defeated Hatap's army. The evil king attempted to escape again into the future, but accidentally fell on a sword in the scramble and was killed.
First appearance and death: ToS1 #44

Madripoor A small Indonesian island with strong heritage in piracy, has a very pre-WWII Hong Kong atmosphere, Wolverine is part owner of a bar there, operating ground of Tyger Tiger, primary inhabitants consist of: Patch (Wolverine), Baran, Tyger Tiger, Gen. Coy, Roche, Tai, Archie Corrigan, O'Donnell, Jessica Drew, Lindsay McCabe, Karma, Amahl Farouk (possessing Karma), Sapphire, Styx, Roughouse, Bloodscream, Madame Joy.
First appearance: NM #32

Madrox, Dr. Daniel (Deceased) Nuclear physicist who worked in the Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center and as a result of his exposure, had a son that was born a mutant. He designed and built the original containment suit to prevent his son's duplicating powers. REL: Father of Madrox, the Multiple Man. Husband of Joan Madrox.
First appearance and death: GS FF #4

Madrox, Joan (Deceased) REL: Mother of Madrox, the Multiple Man. Wife of Dr. Daniel Madrox.
First appearance and death: GS FF #4

Madrox, The Multiple Man (James 'Jamie' Arthur Madrox) Mutant with the ability to make multiple doubles of himself using kinetic energy as a catalyst. Having the ability since birth, it was necessary for his father to build a containment suit to help curb the involuntary duplicating power. The original suit was green, but he later adopted a blue version. After some difficulty on the wrong side of the law, he went to live with Moira MacTaggaert at her Mutant Research Center on Muir Island and became her right hand man [UXM #104]. REL: Son of Dr. Daniel and Joan Madrox. GA: Fallen Angels, X-Factor.
First appearance: GSFF #4

Mad Thinker ('Dr. Jose Santini') Super intelligent master criminal who plans his crimes to the second, taking into account every possibility, creator of the Awesome Android, reactivated Human Torch I, often partners with the Puppet Master. Posed for a short time as Dr. Santini to attack the Fantastic Four through the Thing.
First appearance: FF1 #15

Mad Thinker Robot A very lifelike android which is almost indistinguishable from him which he uses as a proxy when he himself is unavailable (such as in prison) or when a particular situation is too dangerous for him to appear in person. He is able to mentally control the robot but it is uncertain whether his consciousness actually transfers to the creation while it is functioning or whether he goes into a catatonic state from the sheer willpower necessary to operate such a device. Later, when he was hired by Genetech to gather DNA samples from the New Warriors, he used the robot, teamed up with Primus, to do the job. Unfortunately, he hadn't counted on Night Thrasher's fiery temper, and his creation was beheaded in the process (NW #3).
First appearance: ?

Mad Thinker's Android Man (Destroyed) Super powerful android built by the Thinker as protection against his sometime ally the Wizard, accidentally activated just by heat created by the police searching MT's captured hideout. Programmed to follow a signal to his creator but mistakenly follows one to the Wizard's Wonder Gloves. He resembles the Deviant leader, Kro (who will appear in ETN #1) and is taken apart by the Thing when he threatens Alicia Masters.
First appearance and destruction: FF1 #79

Mad Thinker's Awesome Android Artificial being created by the Mad Thinker using research done by Mr. Fantastic. It has a gray, humanoid body but just a block for a head. It is incredibly strong and nearly invulnerable.
First appearance: FF1 #15

Mad Thinker's Disolvex Gas The gas invented by the MT to instantly remove one of his facial disguises, first used on his Dr. Jose Santini mask.
First appearance: FF1 #69

Mad Thinker's Killer Android The faceless, unspeaking androids created by the MT to guard prisoners. They were destroyed when the Fantastic Four and local law enforcement raided MT's hideout to rescue Dr. Jose Santini.
First appearance: FF1 #69

Mad Thinker's Monster Android (form: Scavenger, Mad Thinker's Most Powerful Android) When the Scavenger brought itself to life with the Cosmic Control Rod, it also altered its appearance back into a more humanoid form but with a leonine head. In this form, Mad Thinker took control of him again and tried to use him to take control of the Negative Zone. it is killed when the Thing removes the Control Rod from its throat.
First appearance: FF1 #181 Origin and destroyed: FF1 #183

Mad Thinker's Most Powerful Android (see: Scavenger, Mad Thinker's Monster Android) A 12 foot version of his Killer Android, sent by Thinker to get revenge on the Fantastic Four. Able to shoot knock-out gas from his fingers, reduce his body temperature, and generate an electrical charge. Has a retractable disintegrator and flying jets in his feet. The Ff used everything against it even Reed's Electro-Force Beam, but they finally had to flush him out through the Negative Zone Portal.
First appearance: FF1 #70 Final: FF1 #71

Maelen Lilandra Neramani's new Shi'ar Chamberlain. On his first appearance, misunderstanding a joke made by his mistress, he is mistakenly called her Chancellor.
First appearance: UXM #122

Maelstrom Son of an Inhuman geneticist and a Deviant handmaiden, stole secrets to the Terrigen Mists.
First appearance: MTO #71

Maelstrom's Minions Superhuman agents created by the Terrigen Mist, consisting of: Gronk, Phobius, and Helio.
First appearance: MTO #71

Maelstrom of Madness A powerful spell which, when cast, creates a swirling vortex of colors and lights that is designed to drive a person insane. Dormammu first cast it on Doctor Strange, who dispelled it with the Flames of the Faltine.
First appearance: DrST1 #173

Maggia An international crime syndicate dedicated to conventional crime, consisting of: the Nefaria Family [1st seen family] (Count Nefaria [1st seen member], Plantman, Scarecrow, Porcupine, Eel I, Unicorn [hired UXM #22], Masked Marauder, Gladiator [DD1 #22], Big M (New head of the family), Whiplash, Mauler [ToS1 #97], Big M becomes Madame Masque [IM1 #17], Cyclone, Daniel Lindy [SSM #22], Masked Marauder becomes Big M II [SSM #23]), the Silvermane Family [ASM #73] Silvermane, Man-Mountain Marko, Ceasar Cicero [First seen members], Blackie II [ASM #74], D'Alessandro, Sardone, Savvarino, Pecile [SSM AN #2]. The Top Man Family [1st seen FF1 #101] (Top Man, Gimlet, Big Rock [1st and only seen members]), The Hammerhand Family (Formerly the Top Man Family) [1st seen ASM #112] (Hammerhand, Blackwing, Eel II), Smuggler, Harry DuMont, Eli Rumsford. General assembly: Tapping Tommy, Smiley, Foxy, Louie, Mr. Hodges [DEF #30], Emilio, Luigi [SSM #23], Roak, Moran [MTU #65].
First appearance: AV1 #13

Maggia Executive Council The board headed by the supreme leader of the crime syndicate that hears proposals and grievances within its organization and passes rulings like a criminal board of directors. In their first appearance, headed by Big M II, they heard a proposal by Carrion I concerning the disposal of the thorn in their side, Spider-Man, but, because of his obvious instability, they refused to work with him.
First appearance: SSM #25

Maggia Gambling Ship A luxury cruiser and floating casino owned and operated by the Nefaria branch of the Maggia, base of operations for Big M. Where Iron Man was brought when he was kidnapped via Morgan Stark, where he first encountered Whiplash. Destroyed when AIM agents come aboard and capture Iron Man for themselves.
First appearance: ToS1 #97 Destroyed: IM/SUB #1

Magic A Shi'ar that is a member of their elite guard who is a powerful sorceress and can cast all manner of magical spells. She wears a light blue body suit with thigh high laced boots, a blue cape, and a white feathery headpiece, and she has the black eye tattooing of her people. In his first appearance, he and his team mates were protecting Emperor D'Ken Neramani from The X-Men and the Starjammers, who were trying to stop him from destroying the universe. GA: Imperial Guard.
First appearance: UXM #107

Magic Cow A figure in Norse mythology, one of the first figures to spring forth from the Well of Life. Provided Ymir with sustenance for years.
First appearance: JiM1 #97

Magician, the A stage magician turned second string criminal with seemingly genuine magical powers, who attempted to rob the guests at a wealthy society party, unfortunately attended by the Wasp, who was not only not able to stop him but got herself kidnapped in the bargain. Giant-Man I staged a second party to lure the hypnotist and pickpocket, rescuing his partner and sending the crook to jail. Later, after his escape, he tried to get revenge on the Wasp, but was defeated by her solo and turned over to the police a second time.
First appearance: TtA1 #56

Magick Universe A mystical universe where very few of the laws of our universe apply. Visited by Doctor Strange, it has the appearance of a psychotic hallucination with bizarre shapes and creatures at every turn. It is the home of Lord Chaos and Master Order (their version of our Death and Eternity) and of their creation, the In-Betweener. Access to this universe is normally by magical means only, but when the Elders of the Universe attempted to slay Galactus, his Herald caused a nearby sun to go nova and opened a black hole which proved to be an access point as well.
First appearance: MTO An #2

Magik (see: Illyana Rasputin, Darkchild) The young Illyana is kidnapper by Belasco and trained in the was of dark magic, which as an emerging teen, gives her the ability to call upon his realm of Limbo for her magic armor and sword, which later taints her soul. REL: Sister of Colossus and Mikhail Rasputin. Daughter of Nikolai And Alexandra Rasputin. GA: New Mutants.
First appearance: MGK LTD #1

Magilla (Sandy Stalmaster) Woman wrestler who had her strength augmented by power Brokers Inc allowing her to participate in the UCWF. GA: Grapplers.
First appearance: TNG #33

Magistrates The non-mutant tyrannical leaders of Genosha, led by Chief Magistrate Anderson.
First appearance: UXM #235

Magma (Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla, Allison Crestmere) A mutant from Nova Roma who is able to transform her body to living lava. It is later revealed that she was of British decent and had been living with her family when Selene kidnapped her, wiped her memory, and placed her with another family in the Amazon Jungle. GA: New Mutants.
First appearance: NM #8

Magneto (Eric Magnuson, 'Michael Xavier', see: Creator, White King, White Pilgrim) One of the most powerful of the mutants, the master of magnetism, having complete control over anything metal, including the iron in people's blood, has fluctuated in his career between good and evil. Although originally interested in world domination and the furtherment of mutant kind by less than legal means (having founded the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants). During one of his plans to make the ultimate mutant using the equipment he had employed to create the Savage Land Mutates, he made Alpha II too perfectly, and it rebelled and reduced him and his Brotherhood to infants [DEF #16]. After being placed in the care of Moira MacTaggert in the Mutant Research Center on Muir Island, he was restored to adulthood by Eric the Red II and sicced on the X-Men (during the plot to undermine Lilandra Neramani). Victory was stolen from him by their retreat [UXM #104], so he caught up with them later when they had been captured by Mesmero and placed them in power dampening restrains and left to rot in his Antarctic Base while he rebuilt his Asteroid M base. They escaped eventually, but the base was destroyed and it was assumed that most of the members perished in the molten lava, but they in fact escaped into the Savage land [UXM #113]. He is revealed to be Magda Magnuson's ex-husband and consequently the father of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch [UXM #125], Later he was made the headmaster for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and the leader of the New Mutants as Charles' brother in his absence. REL: Husband of Magda Magnuson. Father of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Grandfather of Luna. GA: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I, New Mutants, X-Men.
First appearance: UXM #1

Magneto's Antarctic Base The huge base a mile underground in the Antarctic that took Magneto years to create covering an area of five square miles and powered by forces from the Earth's core and protected by a huge ceramic dome. It was primarily the location of the prison he fashioned for the X-Men to get revenge for being reduced to an infant and kept at the Mutant Research Center under Moira MacTaggert. The base was destroyed when the X-Men escaped their debilitating captivity and the masterpiece of automated technology was filled with molten lava.
First appearance: UXM #112 Destroyed: UXM #113

Magneto's Asteroid M Huge asteroid hideout of Magneto and often the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I, which has an eccentric orbit a thousand miles out in space and is kept hidden from ground-based radar by an array of sophisticated electronics. In its first appearance, it is destroyed by the X-Men. Some time later, after he had imprisoned the X-Men in his Antarctic Base, Magneto began looting various Aero-Space organizations and rebuilt his space station. He would have before this, but he never had the power until after he was restored from being an infant by Eric The Red II, which somehow rejuvenated him.
First appearance and destruction: UXM #5 Rebuilt: UXM #113

Magneto's Cult The cult started by Mesmero in Magneto's name who tried to recruit Lorna Dane, thinking that she was M's daughter. Their main focus, like Mags, was the downfall of humankind. They possess a machine (one of Magneto's) that can bring out a mutant's latent abilities, which they turn on the general public. Mesmero has built an entire hidden city out in the desert on the West Coast around a robot who they think is Magneto, and peopled it with his robot guards with mutant powers, the Demi-Men. The Cult is infiltrated by the X-Men (trying to save Lorna) by Cyclops in the guise of Erik the Red and eventually disbanded.
First appearance: UXM #49 Disbanded: UXM #52

Magneto's Island The longtime island hideout of Magneto. Base of operations for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I. The Island is destroyed when the Avengers seek to rescue the X-Men from Mags and BoEM, and Mags booby trapped the place to explode.
First appearance: UXM #4 Origin: AV1 #49 Blown up: AV1 #53

Magneto's Magna-Car Another conveyance created by Magneto and powered by magnetic force, used mainly by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I.
First appearance: UXM #7

Magneto's Magno-Ship The magnet driven vehicle used by Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I to travel into space.
First appearance: UXM #5

Magneto Robot For a time, when it was believed the real master of magnetism was dead, he was impersonated by a very sophisticated robot. It was first seen as the head of the Magneto Cult when they tried to recruit the new powers of Lorna Dane, falsely informing her that she was his daughter.
First appearance: UXM #50 Revealed as robot: UXM #58

Magneto FY In the Forever Yesterday alternate reality, he has the same powers and the same general appearance as his counterpart in our reality, but here he is the leader of the mutant rebellion attempting to unseat the tyrannical rule of Sphinx II. While his hand picked team of heroes infiltrated Maqaman Island, he and the White Queen FY gathered together an army of all the super powered beings not loyal to the tyrant.
First appearance: NW #11

Magneto the Second ('M II', form. Lorna Dane, see: Polaris) Lorna Dane's mutant magnetic powers were brought out by Mesmero's Mutant Energy Stimulator when it was believed that she was the daughter of Magneto, referring to her as M II. She at first seemed to be teaming up with Magneto and crew, but in the end sided with her friends, the X-Men against the Magneto Cult. REL: Sister of Zaladane.
First appearance: UXM #50

Magnir One of the three Enchanters in Ringsfjord, sought by Sif and Balder.
First appearance: TH1 #143

Magno-Man A Skrull bred being with a U-shaped magnet protruding from his head. Able to aggressively manipulate objects with magnetic waves generated by the deformity. The Thing's first training opponent at the Kral Training Center.
First appearance: FF1 #92

Magno-Ray The device created by Dr. August Hopper (Locust) to ironically treat locust eggs and produce giant specimens. In the field, he also had a portable version.
First appearance: UXM #24

Magno-Ship Long range, remote control aircraft built by the Wakandans, used to retrieve Captain America when Black Panther needed his help against the Baron Zemo Impostor.
First appearance (unnamed): ToS1 #97 Named: ToS1 #98

Magnum, Moses A costumed criminal who has created a body suit that allows him to access energy from the Earth itself (his Magnum Force) and channel the power to create earthquakes and fires and makes him incredibly strong. A brilliant ruthless man, the self proclaimed heir to Tony Stark as the Arms dealer to the world, he started an international arms company to rival that of Stark International. In his first gambit, he clashed with Spider-Man and was assumed dead. In his second gambit, he built a giant laser cannon on the island of Katsyu Shima to drill to the center of the Earth but he fell victim to his own devices when one of his earthquakes toppled him in the pit [PM AN #1]. He didn't perish, instead, the exotic forces involved melded the suit to him and he found that he possessed the power to access almost limitless power and cast it anywhere in the world. With this new found power, he tried to hold the island of Japan hostage, scheduling smaller earthquakes to prove his legitimacy and then threatened to sink the whole island if they didn't make him absolute ruler. He was bested by the X-Men when Banshee matched his siren power to that of Magnum, and the criminal had to call on too much power to overcome the interference, and the extra stress exploded the island [UXM #118-9].
First appearance: GS SM #4

Magnum Force That power which Moses Magnum, using his special suit, can draw directly from the Earth's core and channel to create earthquakes and conflagrations.
First appearance: GS SM #4

Magnuson, Magda (Deceased) After escaping from her husband whom she thought to be a monster, she left her twin children with Bova, and perished in the forest surrounding Wundagore Mountain. Revealed to be Magneto's ex wife [UXM #125], REL: Wife of Magneto. Mother of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
First appearance: ?

Magrat One of the ringer henchmen brought along by Loki against Thor in the Odinsword Quest.
First appearance: JiM1 #119

Magus (see: Adam Warlock) In an alternate future, Warlock becomes insane and becomes the evil necromancer who, returning to the present, founds he Universal Church of Truth. Later, he attempts to destroy reality and remake it in his own image with the help of the Infinity Gems. He is again defeated by Warlock, with the help of most of the MU heroes, but Warlock is left catatonic from the confrontation.
First appearance: ST1 #?

Magus A techno-organic being whose culture makes it necessary for him to kill his son. REL: Father of Warlock.
First appearance: NM #18

Maha Yogi (form. Warlock, see: Merlin II) The ancient mutant with hypnotically magic powers returns for another shot at the X-Men.
First appearance: UXM #47

Mahkizmo, the Nuclear Man (Deceased) The leader of Machus and their strongest warrior, chosen to wield the ultimate power, known as the nuclear punch. he came to Earth seeking Thundra to take her and break her as his mate. he was killed when both the Thing and Thundra punched him at the same time, causing his nuclear power to explode, resulting in the combining of the Earth of the Femizons and Machus.
First apearance: FF1 #151 Died: FF1 #153

Mahkos and Elysia An alien world where women are at war with men.
First appearance: MTU #143

Main Street Bank The financial institution located in downtown LA that was robbed by Malice I (in his original crime spree), who simply tore a hole in the side of the building with his gadgets and magnetically pulled the vault out through it.
First appearance: GHR2 #25

Maison Alpha Base of operations for Alpha Flight after being dropped by the Canadian government, located at 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta.
First appearance: ALF1 #79

Majestrix A Shi'ar term of royalty employed to describe the highest position in the Empire, their equivalent of Empress. Lilandra Neramani, after the death of her brother, D'Ken, became the Majestrix Shi'ar.
Term first used: UXM #137

Makeshift (Deceased) A professional mercenary who has a flat top and uses an optical targeting device, was hired by Nyko Halfghanaghan to kill Deadpool, Cable, and Copycat for killing his brother, Pico. GA: Executive Elite. Was killed by Deadpool using one of her own electrocution devices.
First and final appearance: DPCC LTD #3

Makkari The rash Olympian Eternal with an affinity for speed. Not only is his extra power beyond those of his people the ability to move at a very rapid rate of speed, he enjoys building and piloting vehicles that travel at fantastic speeds. His costume is red and white with a helmeted headpiece.
First appearance: ETN #5

Makluans An advanced reptilian-humanoid race of beings from Maklu-IV.
First appearance: ToS1 #62

Malador A harsh pioneer planet on the outskirts of the Kree Empire, to where Murius and Falzon had thought to flee with their son to escape their masters. Also the planet considered as a new home to the Inhumans when the royal Family went into space looking for a safer place for their race to live.
First appearance: INH #4

Malekith the Accursed (Deceased) The ruler of the Dark elves of Svartalfheim.
First appearance and origin: TH1 #344 Died: TH1 #367

Malice I A small time costumed criminal who tried to make a fast name for himself by committing very flashy and very public crimes with is newly purchased gadgets. Among his gadgets (from an unknown source) are an earthquake ray, a ray that shatters weapons, a laser ray powerful enough to destroy cars, a ray powerful enough to destroy a building, and a magnetic vault puller, all of which he wears on his belt. He also drives a customized AC Cobra equipped with laser rays and missiles. His first act was to set fire to the Hollywood Wax Museum, trapping and almost killing a young woman inside. Second, he attacked the power plant in LA, waiting for the press to arrive before shredding the police on site with his gadgets and finally destroying the whole building. His final act was to rob the Main Street Bank, pulling the vault out through the wall, and it was from this job that Ghost Rider IV, who had had two brushes with him before, caught up with him. After a merry chase at 220 mph and blowing a bridge to escape the flaming skull menace, his car was wrecked by GR and he was brought low with some cold Hell-fire before being melted to the pavement for the police to find.
First appearance: GHR2 #25

Malice II (Susan Richards, form. Invisible Woman, see: Invisible Girl) An evil alter Ego created under the influence of Psycho Man, seems to like leather. REL: Daughter of Dr. Franklin and Mary Storm. Sister of Human Torch II. Wife of Mister Fantastic. Mother of Franklin Richards.
First appearance: FF1 #?

Malice III An ethereal entity that took over the body of Polaris. GA: Marauders.
First appearance: UXM #214

Malone, Dutch (deceased) A mobster from the 20's who had hidden his secret treasure somewhere in the house in Forrest Hills where Ben and May Parker eventually came to live with their nephew Peter. He had at one time had a brief fling with May Reilly.
First appearance: ASM #?

Mallory, Dr. The psychiatrist at Ryker's Island who who was treating Gladiator's apparent amnesia. He let him put on his armor, and called in the DA Foggy Nelson and his assistant Matt Murdock to help jog his memory.
First appearance: DD1 #63

Maloric, Baron An ineffectual nobleman during the reign of King Conan in Aquilonia who unwittingly employed a servant who turned out to be Thoth-Amon, who killed him and turned him to stone. Head of the Council of Barons.
First appearance: ? Died: CONK #55

Malus, Dr. Karl A criminal research scientist for Power Broker Inc.
First appearance: SPW #30

Man, the (see: Red Skull) Skull posing as an African-American, leading the People's Militia in Flacon's neighborhood.
First appearance: CAP1 #?

Man-Ape (Deceased) (M'Baku, 'White Gorilla') An exile of Wakanda who returned to oust Black Panther using an old legend of a giant white ape to topple the image of the panther. Ironically, he is crushed under the giant panther statue.
First appearance and death: AV1 #62

Man-Beast (see: Hate-Monger II, Mentor III) One of the New Men who started as a wolf before being genetically accelerated to human stature by the High Evolutionary. Unfortunately, his fierce nature could not be curbed like the others and he turned against his master, but was defeated by Thor and sent into exile. He got free and began to wreak havoc on his master's new planet, Counter-Earth, until he was finally stopped by Adam Warlock, who reverted him to his wolf form. However, his new genetic matrix was simply dormant and he eventually regained his more human form, weaseled his way into their space program and escaped in a rocket to our Earth. There (in Vietnam during the war), he posed as a force of good, granting the villain Achmed Korba the power of the light, and forcing him to use it only for good (by putting a caveat that he could only use the power when in contact with someone of pure heart) to begin his new cult, the Legion of Light. When he was ready to collect the last recruits in NYC to begin his conquest of this planet, by using the disciples, attracted and hypnotized by goodness, and twisting them with his ability to make others hate into his foot soldiers. Unfortunately, his plan was discovered by Spider-Man, Razorback, and Flash Thompson and he was defeated before the plan could come to full fruition, and he was knocked into his hate amplifier, causing an explosion, and presumably died [SSM #15]. GA: New Men, Evil New Men.
First appearance and origin: TH1 #134

Man-Beast of the Yukon (see: Wolverine) The name given to Wolverine when he and the X-Men had been hypnotized by Mesmero and were made members of the Mr. Mike's One-Ring Traveling Tent show. Wolvie was part of the freak show and chained up in front of the carnival tent like an animal. When his memory was restored by seeing Beast taken by the other roustabouts, he broke loose and helped the others regain theirs, starting with Ms. Destiny.
First appearance: UXM #111

Man-Brute A powerful creature created by Prof. Silas Cragg when he administers his newly developed Super Soldier Serum to an indigent. Directed at Captain America I, he recants and kills his creator and vows never to use his new powers ever again.
First appearance: CAP1 #121

Manchu, Fu (Deceased) The ancient Chinese emperor and would be world conqueror who developed the Elixir Vitae (oil of life) to prolong his life and actually made the aging process reverse. Had several organizations working under him, including the Dacoits, his best assassins. REL: Great-grand father of Shang-Chi.
First appearance: SME #15

Mancini (deceased) One of Vulture I's thugs who was sent to locate his rival, Black Alfred, in their battle to become the top crime boss in NYC. They roughly questioned Herman, (a known associate of Alfred) and he brought them for a double cross on the El platform in Harlem. They were ambushed by Alfred's men and were killed trying to cross the electrified tracks.
First appearance and death: SSM #44

Mancusi One of the Hellfire Club Mercenaries who was one of the guards inside the plant trying to stop the X-Men from rescuing their team mates from the White Queen. He was taken down in a triple play move by Nightcrawler of bamfing and punching which took down three guards before the first hit the ground.
First appearance: UXM #131

Mandarin (Gene Kahn) An ancient, would be Asian conqueror, directly descended from Genghis Khan, long time enemy of Iron Man. Acquired his ten power rings from an alien space craft in the Valley of Spirits in China. Long time enemy of Iron Man.
First appearance: ToS1 #50 Origin: ToS1 #62

Mandarin's Hate Ray A device created in the form of a giant artificial diamond that emitted rays that would cause even the closest comrades to fight one another to the death. He had intended to use it on the entire planet from his Space Station, but the device required a large amount of diamonds to power it. He collected together his Minions to solve the fuel problem, but was defeated by the Avengers. The device was presumably destroyed when they blew up the station.
First appearance and destruction: AV AN #1

Mandarin's Minions The Mandarin collected together a band of costumed and super-powered villains to secure sufficient diamonds to power his newest ultimate weapon, the Hate Ray, which he planned to use on the entire planet. In teams, they were sent to South America, Asia, and Africa to gain the precious gems by any means available, but they were defeated by a joint effort by the old and new Avengers. Members including: Living Laser, Swordsman, Powerman I, Enchantress, Executioner.
First appearance: AV1 An. #1

Mandarin's Neutralizer Ray A large device that emits a ray that cancels out the circuitry power of Iron Man I's armor, essentially freezing him in place, helpless. Mandarin used it on the golden Avenger in order to unmask him after discovering his secret ID.
First appearance: IM1 #10

Mandarin's Space Station A secret base of operations for the Mandarin and his Minions and a platform from which to use his newest ultimate weapon, the Hate Ray. After the Mandarin was sucked through a hole punched in its side resulting from a battle created when he turned the Ray on the heroes, the Avengers blew up the station to prevent any other baddies from making similar use of the base.
First appearance and destruction: AV1 An. #1

Mandarin's Teleporter The device in his Chinese stronghold with which he can transport people and objects from anywhere in the world, first used to rescue the Swordsman from the Avengers after he tried to kill Captain America.
First appearance: AV1 #20

Mandarin's Visio-Synthesizer A complicated series of machines created by the Mandarin that allows him to amalgamate photographs into undetectable fakes. After discovering the secret ID of Iron Man I, he used the device to place Tony Stark in photos associating with several known criminal elements and them passed them onto the press.
First appearance: IM1 #10

Mandibus, Doctor The yellow skinned, six fingered, red eyed alien, augmented with various mechanical prostheses (including his wheeled platform from the waist down), who is known as the best criminal surgeon. He was the one responsible for installing the bio-system booster capacitors in the bones of Geater, and when Nebula was left catatonic after being imprisoned at the end of the Infinity Gauntlet affair, her first mate brought her to the good doctor when the doctors and telepaths on Titan failed to do the job. He restructured her higher brain functions, reviving her, but couldn't leave well enough alone, and made 'improvements' to her left arm and eye and right hip with bionic prosthetics. He maintains a secret but extensive lab on a dead moon on the outer rim of the Siminian Galaxy.
First appearance: SS3 #70

Mandiz, Rev. Josiah The man of the cloth kidnapped by Mole Man and brought to Subterranea to perform the marriage ceremony between he and Kala. Freed by the Fantastic Four.
First appearance: FF1 #128

Mandrill (Jerome Beechman) A criminal mutant who appears to be an anthropomorphic mandrill and emits pheromones to attract and control people particularly women, with which he had his own cult following. He was created when his father, working at the Los Alamos atomic testing facility was accidentally exposed to a large dose of radiation, and his afterward conceived son paid the price, being born in his simian shape. When the idea of running a cult failed, he turned to a life of crime, but not on a small scale. Making use of his small army of women soldiers called Fem Force, he's tried several times to set himself up as the leader of the country. Later, in doing so, he hired in Mutant Force to help him steal a consignment of gold from the Las Animus air base in Co. in order to use the money to buy Wakandan technology to establish his new power base, but he was thwarted not only by the Defenders but by several other interested heroes [DEF #80]. Mandrill is also one of the largest stock holders in the Women's Bank of Saving. REL: Ex-husband of Nekra. Son of Frederic and Emily Beechman.
First appearance: StSD #4

Mandrill FY In the Forever Yesterday alternate reality, he has the same general appearance as his counterpart in our reality, but without his normal costume, and presumably has the same powers. He was among the other heroes gathered together by Magneto FY and the Mutant Resistance Force as an army to overthrow the tyrannical Sphinx II.
First appearance: NW #12

Mandroid (destroyed) A murderous robotic man-thing used to hunt and execute traitors throughout the far flung Kree galaxy. Yon-Rogg created one using the Pyche-Magnitron to defeat Captain Marvel I, but it was destroyed when Marvel deduced from where the power was coming and got the robot to shoot the Magnitron. The Mandroid dissolved into the cave floor matter from which it was created.
First appearance and destruction: CM1 #18

Mandroid SHIELD's multi-functional, mobile body armor suit designed and built by Stark Industries.
First appearance: AV1 #94

Mandroid Mark II An upgrade on the old mobile body armor by Moses Magnum's Deterrence Research Corporation, making them more resilient with vanadium and making their thermo-couplers more adaptable to power input. They were first sicced on the X-Men when they invaded Moses' HQ in a bunker in the Kuril Islands off Japan, but Wolverine, Colossus, and Cyclops had little more troubele with these than they did the old model when Moses had sicced them on Yashida Manor.
First appearance: UXM #119

Mandroid (Johnny Storm) In an alternate reality, the Fantastic Four received different powers from the cosmic rays, and Johnny could turn himself into a living robot of organic steel much like Colossus. His teammates in the new FF are Big Brain, Ultra-Woman, and Dragonfly.
First appearance: WI?1 #6

Manelli, Pvt. Dino A Hollywood heartthrob who joined the army during WWII to give back to the nation that gave so much to him making him such a big acting star. He was assigned to the First Attack Squad of Able Company under Nick Fury and became their radio man. Although grievously wounded half way through the war, he returned as a Howler to finish up his tour and even regrouped with the others during the Korean conflict. GA: Howling Commandoes.
First appearance: SgtF #1

Mangler A small time hired muscle who is used, in part, by the Masked Marauder to power the Tri-Man. Defeated by Daredevil.
First appearance: DD1 #22 Final appearance: DD1 #23

Mangog (deceased) A huge alien creature who possesses the power of all the dead people of his race (a billion billion souls from a thousand thousand worlds) and he makes use of it to attack Asgard with the intention of drawing the Odinsword to bring about the end of the universe (Ragnarok) for revenge of his murdered people, a people he blames Odin for killing. When the truth of the matter is revealed, Odin didn't kill the murderous race of people by merely imprisoned them for their crimes into the living prison which was Mangog. Besides being a giant and almost incalculably strong, his skin is like the hardest steel making him, when in conjunction with his boosted power levels, almost invulnerable. Thor and the Warriors Three nearly kill themselves trying to stop him from approaching the fabled city of the Norse gods, but it is Odin himself, rising from his Odinsleep, who releases the people to return to their homes in peace, dissolving the prison in the process.
First appearance: TH1 #154 Dissipated: TH1 #157

Manhattan-South Medical Center The hospital in lower Manhattan that treated the boy who saved the lives of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson from an out of control Rand Meachum van. Staff members include: Dr. Tryon, Freddy [first seen staff],
First appearance: SSM #11

Manh, Leong and Nga Coy Brother and sister of Karma used as leverage against her by their uncle Gen. Coy.
First appearance: MTU #100

Manh, Tran Coy (Deceased) Brother of Karma, Leong and Nga Mahn. Nephew of Gen Coy.
First appearance: MTU #100

Manikin (see: Whitman Knapp) A mutant with the ability to produce three counterparts of himself, consisting of: Highbrow, Apeman, and Proto, was an intern for Lionel Jeffries. GA: Beta Flight.
First appearance: ALF1 #49

Manipulator A device invented by a man named Hodges to control all the robots afforded his boss, Tapping Tommy, by the Maggia to do away with the Defenders. When the elongated control box was destroyed by the Valkyrie III, all the remaining robots became inoperative.
First appearance: DEF #30

Manitou (Wisa'ka) A supernatural Indian spirit who is supposed to be the protector of the Comanche people. He appears as a glowing spectral Indian chief riding an equally spectral horse, and even through he can attack with his arrows and tomahawk, he is also able to summon mystical beings, such as the Thunderbirds and the Hobomokko to do his bidding. He can be summoned by a medicine man, but he also appears in time of need. He first appeared when Spotted Doe summoned him for help against the men who were going to blow up the Little Thunderbird Dam so they could loot the Indian village that would be flooded by it. It unfortunately though Ghost Rider IV to be a part of the operation and attacked him, his arrows actually turning the demon back to his human guise. Later, or rather previously back in the old west, she summoned the Manitou again to deal with the demon (not realizing he and Johnny Blaze were one and the same), and this time used a tomahawk on him and changed him back before dissolving on the brink, of delivering the killing blow.
First appearance: GHR2 #49

Man-Killer I Assassin hired by Madame Hydra to kill Captain America I. He nearly completes his mission before being defeated by Cap, who uses the close call to stage his own death.
First appearance: CAP1 #111

Man Monster (deceased) Designed by the bio-chemist Thaxton to be the first of Richard Raleigh's army of ultimate killing machines, the Monster was a chemically and electronically enhanced common thug which changed him into a giant, incredibly powerful juggernaut. After his first skirmish with Spider-Man, his electronics were boosted even more, but in his more powerful state, his regular remote control, connected to his brain by an implant at the base of his skull, proved to be ineffective, so Thaxton installed a neuro band around his head capable of causing excruciating pain. When the new and improved Monster was sicced on George Stacy, who had been looking into Raleigh's records, Spidey learned who was behind his rampage and lead him back to his master's penthouse. Raleigh, in his anger, overused the pain function and broke the controller, and the Monster went on a rampage that took the life of his master and creator. In the end, Spidey pulverized the implant on his neck and he collapsed, apparently dead.
First appearance and death: SPEC #1

Man-Mountain Marko ? GA: Silvermane Family of the Maggia.
First appearance: ASM #73

Manning College A small liberal arts university in New Jersey that was experiencing an unprecedented amount of student unrest which turned out to be an AIM plot to secure Prof. Paul Fosgrave a staff mathematician who was the foremost authority on atomic equations. The plan was thwarted by SHIELD who duped Captain America I to take a hand in the matter posing as a phys ed. instructor. Staff includes Prof. Fosgrave, and the Dean; and the students include Mart Baker, and Grizzly.
First appearance: CAP1 #120

Manny One of Belladonna's thugs who were helping her to get revenge on Roderick Kingsley. During their first appearance, they wore stocking masks which hid their faces and the special respirators needed so they weren't affected by their boss' gas gun, black turtle neck shirts and purple slacks. They weren't particularly well trained or well armed, just your run of the mill hired muscle. After they rescued their boss from her other hired thug, Prowler II, they were easily subdued by Spider-Man and handed over to Det. Sgt. Snider.
First appearance (unnamed): SSM #43 Named and faces exposed: SSM #48

Manny's Bar and Grille The seedy establishment where Ben Grimm hangs out when his powers as the Thing are temporarily lost.
First appearance: FF1 #169

Manslaughter Super powered assassin turned hero. GA: Defenders, Dragon Circle.
First full appearance: DEF1 #134

Man-Slayer (deactivated) A large, red, powerful plastoid robot sent to the Cape to destroy their new moon rocket. Besides being incredibly strong and almost invulnerable, it is also able to shoot force blasts from its fingers. In its first battle against Captain Marvel I, it was beaten only when the Black Widow destroyed its remote control panel. In the second, after its circuits found a secondary powers source and reactivated, Marvel had to use a Lasonic Disintegrator and cut one of its power cables running from the power pack on its back to its head.
First appearance: CM1 #12 Deactivated: CM1 #13

Manta One of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard who has the ability to see in the infra red range, so she can find a target by the heat they generate, and can produce blinding white and blue light, but it is undefined whether the source is her or her costume, but the power has been linked with her life force. She wears a white and black body suit with a black cape that connects to arms, enabling her to glide. Her face is yellow and the inside of her cape is yellow, and she doesn't have any visible pupils. She was one of the Elite that was chosen to battle the X-men in the duel of Honor for the life of Phoenix II in the Blue Area on the Moon. GA: Imperial Guard.
First appearance: UXM #137

Man Thing (Dr. Theodore 'Ted' Sallis) A mindless creature created when Ted Sallis was exposed to the super soldier formula Serum SO-2 in Project Sulphur at his untimely death, stalks the Florida Everglades, reacts to strong emotions, particularly fear, which causes others to burn at his touch.
First appearance: SAV #1

Manticore A small time criminal who was outfitted by the Brand Corp. with an armored battle suit (which although not as strong as that of Iron Man, was proof against Hell-fire) that gave him the appearance of the mythical half lion and half scorpion creature. The front of the suit is equipped with claws sharp enough to sink easily into rock and the face plate, surrounded by his mane, has a more human appearance. The back legs, which are completely mechanical, resemble those of a lion and are built for a prone stance, and the mechanical tail is prehensile and has a lethal barb at the end. He was initially hired in by the Brand Corp. to kidnap and kill an Avenger to further their plans to recover the Hellcat suit, in trade for replacing his own missing legs. He chose Hawkeye as the easiest mark, who was currently acting as a ranch hand with the Two-Gun Kid at the Cheery-O's Dude Ranch, and would have completed his mission if not for the timely arrival of Ghost Rider IV (who as also currently employed at the ranch as Johnny Blaze). Between the three heroes and a disruptor arrow in his power induction grid, he was soon not only bested but peeled of his armor for good measure.
First appearance: GHR2 #27

Mantis (see: Celestial Madonna, Mandy Celestine) An Asian martial arts master who for a short time was a costumed hero before being chosen as the representative of all humanity to bear the Celestial Child. Born in Saigon, she was raised, after the death of her parents, by the Priests of Pama and trained not only in the martial arts but in the telepathic empathy needed to communicate with the Cotati. After her memory of this time had been replaced, she became attached to the Swordsman in his plan to infiltrate the Avengers, and after his death she became a member in earnest. Soon after, however, the training from her past, a counterpart of the training received by Moondragon, came into play, and she was chosen to be the Celestial Madonna by the Cotati. She married the perfect Cotati, in the reanimated form of the Swordsman, and she returned with him to his world, becoming one with him, and the child was conceived. When she returned to Earth to give birth and raise the Celestial Child (as Celestine), she was changed, now half human and half Cotati. Now she is able to commune with plant and can actually transfer her consciousness anywhere that there is greenery and regrow her body anywhere. REL: Daughter of Libra I. Niece of Khrull. GA: Avengers.
First appearance: AV1 #112 Origin: SS3 #4

Mantok the Demon An ancient winged demon with bat-like wings who was first seen as a pre-cataclysmic artifact in the Sanctum Sanctorum of Dr. strange and identified by Chondu the Mystic who was then residing in Nighthawk I's body.
First appearance (as statue): DEF #31

Mantrax, Bo's'n (deceased) One of the alien crew members on the Sanctuary III who, when Thanos set Nebula on fire, was ordered to dispose of her body. But on board extinguishers put her out, so he hid her in a secret compartment. After Thanos took possession of the Infinity Gems, he became aware of the stowaway on board. Despite his best medical skill, his old captain was dying, and for his loyalty to his grand daughter, Thanos burned him to death. Mantrax was humanoid except that he had four fingers on each hand instead of five, had oversized black eyes, and only had hair on the back of his head which he kept in a pony tail.
First appearance (unnamed): SS3 #38 Named and death: SS3 #45

Manuel One of the soldiers in one of the tanks defending their capital in the unnamed South American country attacked by the Swordsman and Power Man I to secure diamonds for the Mandarin.
First appearance: AV AN #1

Manuel One of the revolutionaries in the small South American country freed by the Silver Surfer.
First appearance: SS1 #11

Man-Wolf (see: John Jameson, Star God) Upon returning from space, Col. Jameson is transformed upon a full moon into a were-wolf creature because of his exposure to an alien rock he brought back, but is later cured of the condition. REL: Son of J Jonah and Maria Jameson.
First appearance: ASM1 #124 Final appearance: SSM An. #2

Maqaman Island In the Forever Yesterday alternate reality, it is their version of Manhattan Island where the Egyptians were the ones to discover America, dubbing it instead the United States of Assyria. It is located in New Memphis state and is the location of the country's capital, New Memphis City. After Sphinx II took the reins of the Assyrian Empire, there was some difficulty with a mutant rebellion uprising, so a protective shield was placed around the whole island called the Mutant Detection Field.
First appearance: NW #11

Marauders Team of super human mutant assassins collected together by Mr. Sinister to kill inferior mutants, nearly wiped out all the Morlocks when they went on a killing rampage through their underworld. Group consisted of: Blockbuster, Riptide, Prism {originally seen members}, Sabretooth, Arclight, Harpoon, Malice II, Scalphunter, Scrambler, Vertigo.
First appearance: UXM #211

Marc (deceased) A seasoned archeologist who was in Mexico on an ESU grant when he and his partner Sharon stumbled upon the dark retreat of the Agents of Fortune Cult and were captured and sacrificed to the Chained Ones.
First appearance and death: DEF #58

March, Eddie An ex-boxer who agrees to take over the duties of Iron Man I when Tony Stark decides, very briefly, to quit as the golden avenger because of the work done to repair his damaged heart. Stark, however, discovers that his replacement has a potentially fatal blood clot in his brain, but too late to keep him from getting slaughtered by the latest Crimson Dynamo (III) who was looking to get revenge on the real Iron Man. It is the nearly fatal beating that makes Stark take up the mantle again and vow to be Iron Man forever. After a series of operations, March makes a full recovery.
First appearance: IM1 #21

March, Tod (see: Red Skull) One of Skull's many aliases, President of Galactic Pictures.
First appearance: ?

Marduk The number two man in the Sons of Satannish under Asmodeus I, who, as a practitioner of the magical arts himself, not only changed his appearance to resemble Wong to lure Clea into their clutches, but cast the Ribbons of nihility spell successfully using the combined might of all the Sons.
First appearance: DrST1 #175

Marek, Mr. The president of the LA brokerage house that was attacked by Water Wizard in his maiden criminal act. When he refused to open the safe, WW had his water creature rip the door off and then used Marek's own briefcase to hold the stolen bonds and negotiable securities.
First appearance: GHR2 #23

Marie The maid and housekeeper to Senator Arthur Sterling and his family. She served dinner the night it was discovered that family friend, mark Crane was none other than the leader of the Cult of Death which had been plaguing the area.
First appearance: GHR2 #39

Margit In an alternate reality, a peasant woman living in Latveria under a non-evil Dr. Doom.
First appearance: WI?1 #22

Margrave The Aegyptian Death Demon who is an old veteran mentor and close friend of Prince Pharoid. Involved in the assult of the Centauri camp in the Grey Oasis to save Slug II from Shaitan.
First appearance: MIC1 #23

Maria A refugee from a small Caribbean nation overrun by the Overseer that is rescued by Tony Stark. REL: Sister of Santo.
First appearance: IM1 #29

Marie One of Mr. Nebul's loyal bozos in Paris who was captured by the Defenders and replaced by Red Guardian II so she could infiltrate their operation at the Chateau De Bozeaux.
First appearance: DEF AN #1

Marilyn A waitress at the Felix Club in NYC who was trying to help a distressed patron by the name of Bruce Banner and was witness to his change to the Hulk, which convinced her to return home to Towner, North Dakota.
First appearance: DEF #58

Marionette (Princess Mari) One of the Royal Family of Homeworld who became the leader of the rebellion with her brother after Baron Karza killed their parents. To hide from Karza and his Dog Soldiers, she pretended to be a robot marionette, donning her brightly colored striped costume, but the ruse was soon uncovered. She ends up joining the rebel Micronauts and falls in love with their captain, Arcturus Rann. She has no super normal powers, and her almost constant companion is her servant roboid, Microtron. REL: Sister of Prince Argon/Force Commander. Daughter of the King and Queen of Homeworld.
First appearance: MIC1 #1

Mar-Kann, Gen. One of the Kree officers known by Ronan the Accuser to be in opposition to Nenora's right to be the Supreme Leader of the Kree Empire.
First mention: SS3 #13

Markham, Mr. II A scientist terrorist who has invented a machine (the Molecular Polluter) that will destroy Earth's ecosystem. He escapes Sub-Mariner once, giving him amnesia from the encounter, but Namor and Captain Marvel I return and finish off his plans.
First appearance: SUB #30

Marko, Dr. Kurt (Deceased) The iron fisted scientist who certainly made it plain that he preferred his own son to his step-son. REL: Father of Juggernaut. Step-father of Prof. X. Second husband of Sharon Marko. Widower of Marjory Marko.
First appearance and death: UXM #12

Marko, Marjory (Deceased) REL: Mother of Juggernaut. First wife of Kurt Marko.

Marko, Sharon Xavier (Deceased) (see: Sharon Xavier) REL: Mother of Prof. X. Ex-wife of Brian Xavier. Second wife of Kurt Marko. Step-mother of Juggernaut. Grandmother of Legion.
First appearance: UXM #?

Marks, Cheryl (Vanessa Carlysle, see: Copycat) An identity taken by Copycat to finesse Tolliver's accountant, a man named Foley.
First mentioned: DPCC LTD #3

Marlowe (Deceased) One of the friends of the Plunder family who travels to the Savage Land with Parnival (the Plunderer) and his daughter to recover the ore, Anti-Metal that was discovered by Robert Plunder and left with the Golden People. In the ensuing battle, he is killed, and, when he attempts to leave a message to Ka-Zar concerning the truth about his father, the Plunderer erases it. REL: Father of Vanessa Marlowe.
First appearance and death: MSH #19

Marlowe, Vanessa The daughter of one of the Plunder family's closest friends, minor love interest for Ka-Zar. Brought to the Savage land when the Plunderer and her father were trying to take the Anti-metal discovered by Robert Plunder from the Golden people, with whom it was entrusted. REL: Daughter of Marlowe.
First appearance; MSH #19

Marrina (Deceased) (Marrina Smallwood, see: Leviathan II) A Plodex that adapted to marine survival but to the shape of the human's that raised her, upon adulthood she becomes a hero for the Canadian Government under James Hudson, but later succumbs to her original instincts of world domination. REL: Wife of Sub-Mariner. Foster daughter of Thomas and Gladys Smallwood. Foster sister of Daniel Smallwood. GA: Beta Flight, Alpha Flight, Avengers.
First appearance: ALF1 #1 Died: AV1 #291

Marsha A motorist who becomes involved in the battle between the Micronauts and Prince Shaitan on I-45 in Daytona Beach.
First appearance: MIC1 #3

Marshach (deceased) In the 26th century, an elderly man who, with his mysterious power, created a utopia from the planet he and his people settled on after escaping Earth. He became their sovereign and they worshipped him for many many years, but when it was revealed that he was a descendant of Korvac and that the power had been siphoned from Galactus, he willingly relinquished it despite the fact that it meant the death of he and his wife (who he'd been keeping young and alive all these years) and the end of his utopia. he was good friends with the Silver Surfer of that time period, and had the power to also sense any threat that might affect his world.
First appearance, origin, and death: SS3 AN #4

Marshach's Planet The planet Marshach and his people came to after escaping the Earth in the 26th century, and he used his newfound power to eliminate hunger, disease, and eventually bloodshed and war making it a utopian society and they elected him their sovereign and revered him as a god. However, the good and simple people had no guardian, and it often fell to the Silver Surfer of that time to play the part. Many years later, the planet was visited by the Guardians of the Galaxy and it was revealed that Marshach's power came from the villain Korvac, a progenitor of his, and he willingly gave it up, putting an end to the utopia.
First appearance and origin: SS3 AN #4

Marston, Kirk (see: Garokk) An out worlder who found himself in the Savage Land and was used by Zaladane to resurrect the Petrified Man.
First appearance: KAZ2 #? Changed to Garokk: UXM #115

Martha A witness to X-51's first venture into the outside world.
First appearance: 2001 #8

Martin, Chip (see: Schizoid-Man) One of the biophysics undergrad students at ESU who was in the same assistant teaching program under Dr. Morris Sloan that Peter Parker was. Like Peter, his personal problems have kept him separate from his other fellow students and got him branded as an anti-social cold fish. His main worries seem to involve losing control whenever there is any sort of outside stress, a valid concern, because when he finally loses control of his particular kind of schizophrenia at a party thrown by his parents and crashed by Morbius and eventually Spider-Man, he changes to his alter ego. Evidently he'd spent years in therapy and took mountains of medication to control it just to be able to walk out among normal society, but the double team effort of the living vampire and the web slinger proved too much. REL: Son of Sen. Robert and Rebecca Martin.
First appearance: SSM #36 Origin: SSM #38

Martin, Rebecca The wife of a powerful and wealthy NY senator who lived with him and their son in their stately manor in Riverhead, Long Island. When, years before, she had difficulties in the labor to have her only child, she was given drugs that got into the child's bloodstream and caused him to have, even as an infant, the power to produce solid objects out of mid-air. Several years later, after a fortune of medications and therapy, he was able to go out among normal society and even take classes at ESU. Everything was going fine until the night, after he'd begun his graduate work, when Rebecca and her husband threw a mother of a Halloween bash at their home, which was crashed not only by Morbius but Spider-Man as well. The resultant excitement pushed her son over the edge and transformed into his alter ego, and the next day they were in the city trying to find their missing son, only to witness his beat down by Spider-Man. REL: Mother of Chip Martin/Schizoid-Man. Wife of Sen. Robert Martin.
First appearance: SSM #38

Martin, Sen. Robert A very powerful and wealthy politician who lives with his wife and son in Riverhead, Long Island. After their son started his graduate work at ESU, he and his wife threw a gigantic Halloween bash at their manor, and with the appearance of Morbius and Spider-Man, the excitement proves too much for their son and he transforms into his alter ego. They had spent a fortune over the years trying to control his powers through medication and therapy. After the change, they came to the city looking for him, and, even after their son tried to kill him and everyone else around them, he was still angry with Spider-Man for using such force to stop him, afraid that it would have undone all the therapy, possibly permanently. REL: Father of Chip Martin/Schizoid-Man. Husband of Rebecca Martin.
First appearance: SSM #38

Martinelli Owner of the Daytona Skateboard Circus who had a great deal of trouble in convincing the police of his stories of flying toys that destroyed his business, when it was in fact the Micronauts fighting off Prince Shaitan.
First appearance: MIC1 #3

Martinex A hero from the year 3001 who broke free from the bonds of the Badoon. He is completely made of crystal, which is a human adaptation that allows them to survive on Pluto. GA: Guardians of the Galaxy.
First appearance: MSH1 #18

Martin, Machine Gun An escaped convict on Earth in the 1930's that was brought to Kral by the first Skrull Slaveships, and the whole planet was so enthralled by his mannerisms that they modeled the whole planet after him and his prohibition/gangster period.
First appearance: FF1 #91

Marty An African American in the segregated world of the Nation who led a civil revolt against the Patriot Party.
First appearance (unnamed): FF1 #136 Named: FF1 #137

Marty A spectator at the Mr. Mike's One-Ring Traveling Tent Show who was attending with is younger brother, and the pair took a particular interest in Nightcrawler's fierce demon act.
First appearance: UXM #111

Marty A painfully unhip guy that Mary Jane Watson was dating briefly after she and Peter Parker had broken up after she turned down his marriage proposal.
First appearance: SSM #23

Marty A small time crime boss working out of Dover, NH. who had his thugs hitting some low hazard targets (like an animal clinic and the marina) but his men had the misfortune to clash with the newly formed super hero, Anything Man. When the new hero was in hot pursuit of his men while robbing the marina, instead of rescuing his men in the getaway boat, eh smashed the dock they were all on to keep the hero from following him. It was a bad call because the new hero was able to swim after them and capture them on a lonely New England beach.
First appearance: DEF #69

Marvanites An advanced semi-humanoid race of beings from the planet Marvan.
First appearance: MTO An. #3

Marvel Boy (Robert Grayson, see: Crusader I) A golden age hero who first used the Quantum Bands later used by Quasar, gives him super strength and the ability to fly. He was telepathic and had an enhanced IQ, and at one timehis stregth came from taking "uranium" pills. He returned to Earth with his mind unbalanced and began a vengeful spree as the Crusader. REL: Son of Dr. Matthew Horace Grayson.
First appearance: MARVEL BOY #1 (1951) First modern (in flashback): FF1 #165 Died: FF1 #165

Marvel Boy II (form. Vance Astrovik, see: Vance Astro, Justice) A teen age hero with telepathic powers that are just beginning to emerge. He wears a blue and white body suit with a blue cape, and is capable of lifting and manipulating sizable objects with his mind, creating a 'teke' shield either as a barrier in front of himself, or can wrap it closely around his whole body. He was once a short time sidekick of the Thing when he was involved with the UCWF, but when his powers began to emerge he decided to turn his sights toward being a costumed hero. His original attempts, aimed at getting into the Avengers met with lukewarm favor, usually because of his age, but he was then recruited by Night Thrasher into his team of teenage heroes. Unfortunately, Vance's father is strongly anti-mutant and even more strongly against his son using his powers, leading to great family conflict, including periods of abuse. During his stint as a member of the Warriors, he was found guilty of killing his father (whom he mortally wounded during another session of beating for using his mutant powers) and, despite Foggy nelson's best efforts, sent to the Vault to serve his time [NW #25]. After serving most of his term, he was paroled early and he assumed another ID (Justice) [NW #36]. REL: Son of Arnold and Mary (Norma) Astrovik.
First appearance: CAP1 #?

Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) Mutant with telekinetic and telepathic powers, one of the original members of the X-Men, was replaced by an alien (Phoenix II) when she supposedly died returning from space, and was later resurrected in time to join her fellow alumnus in their newly formed team, long time love interest and later wife of Cyclops. After serving for years on the X-Men, with only one brief hiatus after graduating, she and most of the others of the first roster left the fold to pursue their own lives after the events with Krakoa, and Jean continued on with her school work [UXM #94], ushering in the new team. Her separation this time from the team didn't last, particularly because Cyclops stayed, and she got involved in the affair with Steven Lang's Mark III Sentinels which led to her 'giving her life' for her friends on the shuttle ride back to Earth [UXM #100]. At which time she was replaced by the alien (Phoenix II) which duplicated her in every way and left her in a cocoon in the river near Kennedy Airport to heal from her terrible injuries. Some time later, after the demise of her duplicate, her cocoon was discovered and she and her former team mates, the original X-Men, formed a new team. REL: Daughter of Elaine and John Grey. Sister of Sara Grey. Wife of Cyclops. GA: X-Men, X-Factor.
First appearance: UXM #1

Marvel Man (Wendell Vaughn, see: Quasar II) Super hero using the Quantum bands of Marvel Boy I, agent of SHIELD.
First appearance: CAP1 #217

Marvel Man FY In the Forever Yesterday alternate reality, he has the same powers as the Marvel Boy II of our reality and his costume is very similar except that he carries a staff. He was one of the agents who was bringing the info given them by Sergeant Fury FY back to the rebellion bunker to help in their cause against Sphinx II; he was one of those chosen to infiltrate Maqaman Island to deactivate the Mutant Detection Field, and he was one of the four heroes that finally brought an end to the tyrant's rein.
First appearance: NW #11

Mary One of the Hellfire Club Minions who was on duty during the anniversary celebration and was ordered to take a tray of champagne into the Senator Kelly party because they were supposed to be getting special treatment.
First appearance: UXM #133

Marya The young handmaiden of lady Karlot who was on the ship when her mistress was taken by the Space Pirate, Reptyl. They had been hoping that the approaching ships had contained traders or handsome soldiers, but got much more than they expected.
First appearance: SS3 AN. #2

Mary Beth A young woman who was frolicking on the beach at Atlantic City with her significant other when she is attacked by a giant squid as a prelude to Attuma's latest attack on the surface world.
First appearance: DEF #7

Masked Marauder (Frank Farnum, see: Big M II) (Deceased) Costumed criminal mastermind and Maggia leader, his first leap into costumed criminality was to steal the experimental XB-390 engine from the World Motor Center and try to sell it to the highest bidder, but the plan was thwarted by Daredevil and Spider-Man. He wears a goggled helmet like his underlings, but his is veiled to hide his features and has his Opti-Blast built into it. Besides his small army of henchmen, the Marauder also has a specially made bus with a hydraulic lift and a blimp in his possession. Creator of both versions of the Tri-Man. It wasn't until his supposed death that Farnum was revealed as MM, and had presumably perished by passing through his own force field [DD1 #27]. But he survived and went to prison and spent the next several months increasing the power of his Opti-Blast making the effects permanent [WW #43]. And when he got out, he finally realized his dreams and became the overall head of the crime syndicate, crating a second Tri-Man and using him to hold the city for ransom until he was taken down by Spider-Man and Daredevil again [SSM #28]. GA: Maggia.
First appearance: DD1 #16

Masked Marauder's Opti-Blast (Visi-Blast) A weapon built into the helmet of criminal mastermind that shoots a ray that temporarily paralyzes the target's optic nerves, causing temporary blindness. When the Marauder directed the weapon on Daredevil, it of course didn't work.
First appearance: DD1 #16

Masked Matador (Manuel Eloganto) Famous Spanish matador turned costumed criminal, wearing his bull fighting togs, his cape and razor sharp sword. He clashed with Daredevil and was bested. Later, he was recruited by Electro for his new team of costumed villains, each with a beef with the man without fear, and with the soul purpose of killing their common foe. The five of them took DD on individually and then all together, but, because they disregarded Electro's carefully laid plans and because of their overconfidence and carelessness, they were beaten and left for the police [DD AN #1]. GA: Emissaries of Evil.
First appearance and origin: DD1 #5

Mason, Detective An Ulster County police officer who arrests Vance Astrovik for assaulting his father with a deadly weapon, namely his telekinetic powers as Marvel Boy II. Vance was defending himself after another vicious attack from Arnold simply for his being a mutant.
First appearance: NW #20

Mason, Louise 'Weezie' Grant (see: Blonde Phantom)
First modern appearance: SHII #2

Masque A mutant with the ability to alter faces, usually to make them as hideous as hers. GA: Morlocks.
First appearance: UXM #169

Massachusetts Academy A private school in Snow Valley, headmastered by the White Queen, where she recruits mutant for the Hellions, rival of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters under the thumb of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Kitty Pryde was almost transferred there.
First mention: UXM #129 First named: UXM #130 First appearance: UXM #151

Massmaster (Jack Powers, see: Counterweight) REL: Brother of Energizer, Gee, and Lightspeed. Son of Dr. James and Margaret Power. GA: Power Pack
First appearance: PP #1

Master (deceased) A Tibetan monk who, 500 years earlier, brought civilization to the Snowmen of the Himalayas, and was kept alive all this time by the Entropy Globe. he died shortly after giving the Fantastic Four the device necessary to turn his charges human.
First appearance: FF1 #145 Died: FF1 #146

Master A would be conqueror, bent on destroying the Plodex.
First appearance; ALF1 #2

Master Kee (Deceased) A martial arts Sensei whose students become the Sons of the Tiger.

Master Menace (see: Emil Burbank) The greatest criminal intellect of Other-Earth.
First appearance: SqS LTD #7

Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) Long time criminal mutant with the ability to mentally create complex and incredibly realistic illusions. After years of being a second string player, he joined with the Hellfire Club as a member of its Inner Circle and used his powers, augmented by the Mindtrap Mechanism created by Emma Frost, to seduce Phoenix II [starting UXM #122] by creating Timeslips to the 18th century where he, as the dashing Jason, and she supposedly as his lover from a past life, and brought her eventually under his power, recreating her as the Black Queen. He managed to eventually subjugate her to his will to the point where she turned against her old team mates, the X-Men, until her 'Jean Grey' side was reawakened by her old flame, Cyclops. Unfortunately, in releasing her evil side, he also dissolved the mental blocks she had set up to keep the Phoenix Force in check, and she became the Dark Phoenix, who had not problem with expanding his consciousness to encompass the entire universe and broke his mind [UXM #134]. GA: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I, Factor Three, Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club.
First appearance: UXM #4 Real name revealed: UXM #122

Master Mold I The stationary central intelligence and leader of the Sentinels Mark I built by Bolivar Trask. Stops taking orders from Trask and tries to force him to give up the secret of their production so they can make an army of the robots, destroyed by Trask by an intentional explosion that also took his own life..
First mention: UXM #14 First appearance: UXM #15 Destroyed: UXM #16

Master Mold II The central intelligence and leader of the Mark III Sentinels built by Steven Lang from parts of the original Master Mold.
First appearance: UXM #98

Master Mold III The central intelligence and leader of the Sentinels that rebuilt itself from a piece of Master Mold II, decided that all people had mutant genes and must be destroyed.
First appearance: UXM #?

Master Mold IV The central intelligence and leader of the Sentinels which rebuilt itself with the consciousness of Master Mold III and Nimrod and mutated into a living being.
First appearance: IH1 An. #7

Master of Prophesy The Asgardian mage who passes judgment on the potentail success of the Odinsword Quest.
First appearance: JiM1 #120

Master Order A cosmic being embodying the principles of uniformity, orderliness and immutability form the Magick Universe. He normally appears as a large, stern, gray human head. He is the opposite of Lord Chaos. One of those responsible for creating the In-Betweener.
First appearance: MTO An. #2

Master Pandemonium (Martin Preston) After nearly dying in a car wreck, sold his soul to Mephisto to regain his right arm, becomes a semi-demon searching for the five pieces it was broken into (see: William and Thomas).
First appearance: WCA #4

Master Planner (Otto Octavius see: Doctor Octopus) An alias adopted by Doc Ock as a fledgling crime-lord, his gang pulls off several small robberies, but goes unnoticed by Spider-Man until he steals the ISO-36, which May Parker needs to survive her current sickness.
First appearance: ASM1 #29

Master Planner's Gang The costumed gang of hired thugs working for the Master Planner, pulling off a rash of robberies around the New York area.
First appearance: ASM #30

Masters, Alicia Blind sculptress, long time girlfriend of the Thing, was later kidnapped by the Skrulls and replaced by Lyja, who in actually marries the Human Torch II, met the Fantastic Four as an unwilling accomplice of her step-father. Was the one responsible for getting the Silver Surfer back in touch with his humanity. REL: Daughter of Jacob and Marcia Reiss. Step-daughter of the Puppet Master.
First appearance: FF1 #8 Received her last name and origin: FF1 #42

Masters, Marcia (form. Marcia Reiss) REL: Mother of Alicia Masters. Wife of Puppet Master.
First and final appearance; MTU #6

Masters of Evil I Group of super powered criminals bent on the destruction at first of the newly revived Captain America I and later of the whole team of Avengers, created Wonder Man, consisting of: Baron Zemo I, Melter, Black Knight II, Radioactive Man [original members], Enchantress, Executioner [AV1 #7].
First appearance: AV1 #6

Masters of Evil II Group of super powered criminals bent on the destruction of the Avengers, gained access to Avenger's Mansion through Edwin Jarvis, consisting of: Crimson Cowl (Ultron-5), Klaw, Whirlwind, Radioactive Man, Melter, Black Knight III (posing as Black Knight II).
First appearance: AV1 #54

Masters of Evil III Group of super powered criminals bent on the destruction of the Avengers, consisting of: Egghead, Whirlwind, Scorpion, Moonstone II, Tiger Shark {original members}, Shocker, Beetle, Radioactive Man {j AV1 #228}
First appearance: AV1 #222

Masters of Evil IV A group of super powered criminals bent on the destruction of the Avengers, highly organized, stormed the Avenger's Mansion in force, nearly killed Hercules and Edwin Jarvis,. consisting of: Titania, Absorbing Man {first seen members}, Screaming Mimi, Grey Gargoyle, Yellowjacket II, Moonstone II {app. AV1 #271}, Baron Zemo II, Wrecker, Piledriver, Thunderball, Fixer, Bulldozer, Goliath III, Tiger Shark, Blackout, Mr. Hyde, Whirlwind {app. AV1 #273}.
First appearance: AV1 #270

Masters of Menace (form. Circus of Crime) For a brief time, the Circus of Crime members (after a stay in prison) dropped the Ringmaster II and made a go as a criminal gang with the Clown as the leader of the group, also consisted of: Princess Python, Cannonball, Great Gambonos [original members],
First appearance: ASM #22

Master Thief The elderly Insectivorid on Kaliklak who taught Bug his thieving abilities and was a member of the gang of thieves once led by his protégé.
First appearance: MIC1 #13

Matani (Deceased) The 3 billion year old Elder of the Universe died from sheer boredom, having seen and done everything in that time, and when the Grandmaster returned her from the domain of Death, she soon slipped into an apathetic coma. REL: Wife of the Collector.
First mention: ? First appearance: SS3 #3

Mathemanic One of the psionic super beings created by Genetech who, for want of an easier description, has become a math telepath. A one time genius level student, he still appears to be human, keeping his long blond hair braided on one side, sporting glasses that have a green and a red lens, and sporting pretty much math geek clothing. His creators had some difficulty pinning down his exact powers at first, but they surfaces as his ability to mentally manipulate the forces of nature, like increasing the gravity around a person and such. GA: Psionex.
First appearance: NW #4

Mather, Cotton (Deceased) A 17th century witch hunter.
First appearance; MTU #41

Matheson, Oliver A pastor in the parish where Adam and Maureen Henderson attend services who, while enjoying the Quentin Carnival, was attacked and verbally accosted by the entity, Null, in possession of Adam's body. And while born away and then shrunk, he loses touch with his faith, but it is reaffirmed when he rescues Mrs. Henderson from a falling statue which was toppled in the battle between Null and Ghost Rider IV, suffering some broken bones and bruises. REL: Husband of Sarah Matheson.
First appearance: GHR2 #71

Matheson, Sarah The wife of a small town pastor who, while they were enjoying the Quentin Carnival, had to watch in horror as her husband was stolen away by the entity, Null, in possession of Adam Henderson's body. She was reunited with him soon, after he had rescued Mrs. Henderson from a falling statue, reaffirming his faith and her love. REL: Wife of Oliver Henderson.
First appearance: GHR2 #71

Matilda The outspoken house servant of the Worthington family.
First appearance: KAZ1 #2

Matriarch One of the high priestesses in the Universal Church of Truth serving the Magus.
First appearance; ST1 #?

Matsunaga A crewman of the Jinguchi Maru who had family in Agarashima when it was attacked by Moses Magnum and destroyed, and lamented his father to his new friend, Nightcrawler.
First appearance: UXM #118

Matthews, Charles (David Cannon, see: Human Top, Whirlwind) The alias adopted by Cannon when he posed as the chauffeur of the Wasp.
First appearance: AV1 #46

Mauler Small time muscle hired by Big M when the Nefaria Maggia family tried to take over Stark Industries. GA: Maggia.
First appearance: ToS1 #97

Mauler I (Aaron Soames, Mobile Armor Utility Laser-guided Electron-beam Emitter, Revised) Super powered criminal.
First and final appearance: DD1 #167

Maxam The member of Infinity Watch that was entrusted with the Reality Gem and kept apart from the group as a failsafe, known only to Adam Warlock. GA: Infinity Watch.
First appearance (voice only): WARI #5 First part.: WARI #

Maxie The promoter that Spider -Man used at the first of his career when he was trying to break into television.
First appearance: AF #15

Maxie A news vendor whose booth is on an out of the way corner who was almost attacked by Morius when he go a life saving delivery of Daily Bugles.
First appearance: SSM #7

Maxie The driver of a semi who, while traveling the correct way down a one lane road encounters the dune buggy of Fred and Ernie, tow members of the Jackal Gang, coming the other way, hotly pursued by Ghost Rider IV for killing and robbing another truck driver.
First appearance: GHR2 #41

Maxi-Glass A supposedly shatter-proof safety glass developed by Tony Stark that was used in the interrogation rooms at the police station in NYC where the Enforcers were taken after taking eh Coffee Bean patrons hostage. It might have been proof against normal felons, but it couldn't withstand the constant pounding delivered by Ox II.
First appearance: SSM #20

Maximoff, Django A gypsy from Eastern Europe. REL: Adoptive father of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Husband of Marya Maximoff.
First appearance: AV1 #?

Maximoff, Marya (Deceased) A gypsy from Eastern Europe. REL: Adoptive mother of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Wife of Django Maximoff.

Maximus the Mad An Inhuman would be usurper of his brother's throne, leader of the Evil Inhumans, accidentally driven mad as a young man by the sound of his brother's voice. REL: Brother of Blackbolt. Son of Agon and Rynda. Cousin of Gorgon, Triton, Karnak, Medusa, and Crystal.
First mentioned: FF1 #45 First appearance: FF1 #47

Maximus's Most Deadly Robot (Destroyed) A huge, powerful robot used by Maximus to mentally control the island of Costa Salvador. He has metallic arms and legs and a dome for a head which opens for him to use wither his mental control beams or his particle ray weapon. He is destroyed when the Hulk throws Maximus' fortress on top of him.
First appearance: IH1 #119 Destroyed: IH1 #120

Maxon, John (see: Red Skull-counterfeit) During WWII, An aircraft tycoon and owner of the Maxon Aircraft Corporation, he was killed and replaced by a Nazi agent who was working for the Red Skull and bent on sabotaging the US war effort, including the planes produced in his plant. When Gen. Curtis began to investigate him, Captain America got involved and uncovered his plot and his true identity.
First appearance (as Nazi impostor): ToS1 #65

Maya The beautiful villain who is partnered with Count Abyss. She appears to be a blond woman with a white loose fitting tunic much like the ancient Greeks wore, and wears a mask over her right eye that resembles a bird with one white wing extended.
First appearance: WARI #14

Maye, April The secretary of Barney Bushkin on the Daily Globe. Pretty and blonde, she of course falls for peter Parker, and he per usual, has too much going on his his life to notice the advances.
first appearance: SSM #38

Mayfair, Dr. Margaret Director of marketing for Project PEGASUS.
First appearance: MTO #57

Mayhem (see: Brigid O'Reilly) Died and rose again as the super powered criminal Mayhem.
First appearance: C&D LTD #5

Maynard The deputy in the small police station where Mister Machine reported the attack from Mr. Hotline's Hover Squad.
First appearance: 2001 #10

Maz One of the Badoon underlings from the year 3001.
First appearance: MSH #18

McCabe, Lindsay Private Investigator in Madripoor, partners with Jessica Drew.
First appearance: ?

McCall, Creighton Number one competitor of Howard Stark in the electronics field, wouldn't allow his daughter to date Tony Stark, even sent her off to live with relatives to prevent it. REL: Father of Meredith McCall.
First appearance: IM1 #28

McCallister One of the soldiers ready to storm the Baxter Building when the Frightful four were holding the Fantastic Four hostage for a billion dollar ransom, and the mayor refused to pay.
First appearance: FF1 #178

"McCall", Meredith Old childhood flame of Tony Stark. Works at the Pinewoods Sanitarium as a therapist. She called Tony for help when the hospital was taken over by the Controller. Unknowingly rescued by Iron Man I, who leaves while she's still unconscious when he discovers from her file that she is married. REL: Daughter of Creighton McCall.
First appearance: IM1 #28

McClary, Calvin President of the Franklin Pierce National Bank and the first victim of Crusader I when he returns to Earth, because, years ago, he refused a loan to Dr. Grayson and his rocket project.
First appearance: FF1 #164

McClary, Mrs. Wife of Calvin McClary, makes the connection between her husband and his bank and the Crusader I, who had just left him for dead.
First appearance: FF1 #164

McCoy, Milly One of the television news reporters who were covering the story of the battle between the Eternals and the cosmic powered Hulk robot ('Greenskin') from the safety of the studio.
First appearance: ETN #15

McCoy, Norton and Edna Norton worked in a nuclear power plant, and due to an accident, his son was born with mutant powers. REL: Parents of Beast.
First appearance: UXM #15

McCoy, Robert (Uncle Bob) Very close uncle of Hank McCoy who was a frequent visitor in his youth. REL: Uncle of Beast.
First appearance: UXM #49

Mc Donald XV-1 Convertiplane The first mode of long distance transportation the first team of X-Men used before the Black Bird.
First appearance: UXM #2

McGee An investigator, presumably working for Smart Magazine, who uncovered the real story behind Steel Wind for Cynthia Randolph.
First mention: GHR2 #75

McGuire, Charlie (deceased) A one time cop in Philadelphia who had been kicked off the force who went into personal protection. While acting as the bodyguard of Mrs. Desiree Vaughn-Pope, she and her 'date' were attacked by who was assumed to be Spider-Man in her apartment at the Powers Arms in Soho. He fired his weapon and missed and he followed the assailant out onto the balcony, but didn't come back. He struggled with who turned out to actual be Prowler II and the two went over the rail. Prowler was able to stop himself from falling, Charlie didn't and fell to his death. The police of course, despite clues to the contrary, assumed that Spidey was responsible. Spidey finally brought not only the Prowler but the woman who had hired him, Belladonna to justice.
First appearance and death: SSM #47

McHammer, Sen. The leader of the oppressive Patriot Party in the Nation. Kidnapped and brainwashed the Thing and Mr. Fantastic to fight on their side in the bid for the Warhead.
First appearance: FF1 #136

McKay, Dr. The physician who, along with Dr. Peter Corbeau, examined Phoenix II after her initial manifestation and subsequent collapse and decided there wasn't anything wrong that a period of rest and proper care wouldn't cure.
First appearance: UXM #101

McKenzie, Alphonse 'Al' Explosives agent for SHIELD II.
First appearance; NFvsS LTD #3

McKenzie, Lt. Anne (see: Snowbird, Anne Thompson) The human guise of Snowbird as a lieutenant in the RCMP assigned as the records keeper in Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. She was called from here by Vindicator I for the first mission of Canada's premiere super team to make the second attempt to recapture Wolverine. REL: Daughter of Hodiak and Nelvanna. Widow of Douglas Thompson.
First appearance: UXM #120

McKenzie, Capt. Leonard Captain of the Oracle, married the daughter of the Atlantean Emperor. Was assumed deceased until he turns up in the first of the Submariner series. It is revealed that he was betrayed by his mission director, Mentallo, for the Helmet of power. REL: Husband of Princess Fen. Father of Sub-Mariner.
First mod. appearance: FF1 An. #1

McNee One of the soldiers working in Carol Danver's security office at the Cape when the manhunt for Walter Lawson was begun in earnest.
First mention: CM1 #12

McNeil, Ransey and Claire REL: Parents of Heather Hudson/Vindicator II.
First appearance; ALF1 An. #1?

McPhee, Andrea (see: Andromeda) REL: Daughter of Attuma and Lady Gelva.
First appearance; DEF1 #143

Meachum, Harold (deceased) The partner of Wendell Rand in Rand-Meachum Industries who killed his partner when they were out trying to locate the hidden city of K'un-L'un. He was later killed himself before the young Daniel Rand (Iron Fist) could get revenge, and the young martial artist was accused of the murder. REL: Father of Joy Meachum and Ward Meachum.
First appearance: ?

Meachum, Joy One of the heads of Rand-Meachum Industries working as Daniel Rand's (Iron Fist) proxy with her brother Ward. She once believed that Daniel was responsible for the death of her father. REL: Daughter of Harold meachum. Sister of Ward Meachum.
First appearance: ?

Meachum, Ward The spineless son left in charge of Rand-Meachum Industries after the untimely death of his father. under the nose of his sister, he was using company resources to further his own criminal career under the control of Master Khan. REL: Son of Harold Meachum. Brother of Joy Meachum.
First appearance: ?

Mechano (destroyed) A 27 foot tall remote control robot built by Tinker Hopkins and his assistant Tommy Briggs for an industrial fair, that, when exposed to an atomic transmitter's rays, ran amok under his own power. The inventor drew him out of town with a giant electro magnet right in the middle of an attempted alien invasion. Mechano defeated the extraterrestrials, but was destroyed shortly thereafter by the police, who were unaware that the robot had just saved the human race.
First appearance: ST1 #86

Mechano-Assassin A robot sent by AIM to kill Nick Fury, but it was a set up by SHIELD that was ruined when Captain America unwittingly rescues the Fury LMD by destroying the robot and puts Sharon Carter, who had infiltrated AIM, at risk.
First appearance: ToS1 #92

Mechanoid The latest weapon devised by the military to deal with the threat of the Hulk costing a whopping two and a half million dollars in the early seventies. It is a golden humanoid robot that can, by remote control, fire force blasts form its hands and missiles from a port in its belly. The National Guard sicced one on the Hulk when he was trying to reach Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, and he made very short work of it. It did little more than annoy him, and he broke it down into very small pieces.
First appearance: GS DEF #2

Mechanoid Scout MK-5 (deceased) (Mike) A humanoid android sent to Earth by his unseen Masters to deduce whether the Earth was ripe for them to offer a chance to be a trading colony. In his study of the planet, he abducted Iron Man I, who his ships sensors thought to be a threat, and, taking human form, picked up with a girl named Belinda Thompkins, for whom he developed feelings. When their car was hijacked by two escaped cons, Rasko and Baldy Kolak, he ended up giving his life to save hers. The several bullets that passed through his body in the scuffle caused him to explode and he was reduced to ashes.
First appearance and death: IM1 #32

Medbedah, Araq The supposedly altruistic leader of the People's Armed Forces Front who were working to free the people of Trans-Sabal from the dictator, Farnoq Dahn. After he'd conned the New Warriors, who were in the country trying to locate Force of Nature, to help them beat the Sabalian army and capture the villain, the truth came out that he was a paid stooge working for their 'friends to the east' (presumably the Russians) and not even a citizen of the country. he is the one that killed Gen. Halladah in the skirmish.
First appearance: NW #29

Medusa (Medusalith Amaquelin, 'Madame Medusa') One of the Royal family of Inhumans who has the uncanny ability to use her hair like tentacles. Started her career as a villain recruited by the Wizard, but quickly redeemed herself, even joining the Fantastic Four for a short period. REL: Wife of Blackbolt. Sister of Crystal. Cousin of Gorgon, Triton, and Karnak. Daughter of Quelin. Aunt of Luna. GA: Frightful Four, Inhumans, Fantastic Four, Liberators.
First appearance: FF1 #36

Medvedev One of the Soviet agents who had originally kidnapped Yuri Petrovitch posing as Americans and holding him for nine years in West Berlin never guessing that his own people had taken him. When the time was right, his boss, the Commissar staged a rescue, during which the bald agent was supposedly gunned down, but it was all just for show to get the boy deeper into the fold.
First appearance: CHM #10

Megatak (Deceased) (Gregory Nettles)
First appearance: TH1 #358 Killed by Scourge: AV1 #263

Megaton A nuclear creature that absorbs energy from outside sources and grows the more he absorbs, broke into Prof. Benjamin Savannah's lab when he was attracted by the power of Rick Jones' Nega-Bands.
First appearance: CM1 #22?

Meggan A mutant metamorph who can fly, girlfriend of Captain Britain. GA: Excalibur.
First US appearance: NM An. #2

Mei-Ling (deceased) The Chinese woman who had been betrothed to the Mandarin since childhood, who, although not really evil herself, was a devoted servant of the megalomaniac because of her love and devotion for him, until, during a battle with Iron Man I, he spit on those very ideals, and she threw herself in front of a Power Ring Ray that was meant for his helpless hostage, Janice Cord.
First appearance: IM1 #9? Died: IM1 #11

Mekano (Tom Regal) Son of a wealthy business man, borrows an experimental exo-skeleton from his father's company and goes on a brief rampage in downtown Manhattan, suing the Beast and Iceman to accomplish his mayhem before being shut down by the rest of the X-Men. REL: Son of Mr. Regal.
First appearance (last panel teaser): UXM #35 First full, origin, and last: UXM #36

Mekkans An advanced semi-human robotic race of beings from the planet Mekka (form. Maarin), ruled by Torgo II since the defeat of the Skrull Slave-Masters. They became the dominant species on the planet after their biological creators were wiped out by a plague.
First appearance (Torgo): FF1 #91 First appearance as a race: FF1 #173 Origin: FF1 #174

Melissa One of Ruby Thursday's underlings at her estate in Laurel Canyon who was sent to fetch the drink ordered by Jack Norris when he'd infiltrated her organization.
First appearance: DEF AN #1

Melter (Deceased) (Bruno Horgan) One of Tony Stark's industrial competitors who turns to costumed criminal activities when Stark Industries is awarded a contract above his company. Uses a melting gun as his primary weapon which was at first mounted on his chest, later developed into a hand held device. GA: Masters of Evil I and II, Death Squad.
First appearance and origin: ToS1 #47 Killed by Scourge: AV1 #263

Melvin A man in Greenwich Village who was dazzled by the appearance of Valkyrie III deep to the dismay of his wife.
First appearance: DEF #5

Mend-Mek A miniature repair robot employed by the Kree on their starships. They are also designed to speak and monitor information from elsewhere in the ship. Medic Una tried to use one to eavesdrop on the main Viso-Viewer on the bridge to get news of Captain marvel I's battle with Sentry 459.
First appearance: CM1 #1

Menoetius One of the Greco-Roman Titans, who, in the war with his brethren against Olympus, wall felled by the powers of Zeus, and so many of his awesome bolts did he absorb before being cast down to Hades that portions of his body were transformed into living energy. Besides being huge and super strong, he could also cast bolts of energy from his hands. It is in this form that he was summoned by the Huntsman to attack the Champions who were preventing him from carrying out his orders from Zeus to capture Hercules and Venus. The heroes were having a lot of trouble dealing with him without the might of the scion of Olympus, but they bested him when the melting ice of Iceman gave Black Widow the bright idea of short circuiting him by grounding the creature. Not only was the Titan struck down but his controller as well.
First appearance: CHM #2

Mentallo (Marvin Flumm, see: Think Tank) Costumed criminal who, by means of mechanical assistance, can take control of other's minds, often partnered with the Fixer. Was once a side show mentalist, and revealed to be the one who led the fateful mission of the Oracle and betrayed Capt. Leonard McKenzie, locating the Helmet of Power for Destiny I. Later revealed to be an actual mutant. GA: Ex-Hydra agent. Informant for SHIELD.
First appearance: ST1 #141

Mento-Helmet Device created by Prof. X to augment his own mental powers to send messages to even those without enhanced mental capabilities, first used to send a distress call to defeat Juggernaut.
First appearance: UXM #13

Mentor (Alars) Benevolent ruler of the Titan Eternals. REL: Father of Thanos and Starfox. Great-Grandfather of Nebula. Brother of Zuras. Son of Kronos.
First appearance: IM1 #55

Mentor II One of the Shi'ar elite guard who has no revealed super ability but it has been suggested that he has a superhuman level of intelligence. He wears a blue and orange body suit, has green skin with a very sunken brow, and wears an amulet on his forehead. In his first appearance, he and his team mates were protecting Emperor D'Ken Neramani from The X-Men and the Starjammers, who were trying to stop him from destroying the universe.GA: Imperial Guard.
First appearance: UXM #107

Mentor III (form. Man-Beast, see: Hate-Monger II) Appearing first as a mystic or alien being, he granted Achmed Korba the power of the light to begin his cult, but with the stipulation, that he must be in contact with someone of pure heart, or his powers don't kick in. It was in this way that the Man-Beast (in disguise), having escaped from Counter-Earth and crash landed here hoped to gain an army that he could hypnotically subvert, and used this caveat as a safety to keep Korba from reverting to his old smuggling ways and spill the beans prematurely. Although even those higher up in the cult still believe Mentor to be the man in charge, it is known right along that it is the Hate-Monger who is pulling the strings. When the whole operation came apart at the hands of Spider-Man, Razorback, and Flash Thompson, he fell as Man-Beast into an explosion caused by his hate amplifier and presumably died [SSM #15]. GA: Legion of Light.
First part. appearance: SSM #12 First full: SSM #13 Apparent death: SSM #15

Mentus (Deceased) (see: Prime Director) GA: Space Knights
First appearance: ROM #20 Died: ROM #25

Menzie, Anne Marie A nurse who was one of the 100 humans mind controlled by the Kree to commit sabotage to soften the Earth up for invasion..
First appearance: INH #8

Mephisto Extra-dimensional demon with almost unlimited power, lord of the underworld. Although he can choose other forms, he normally appears as a more classical rendition of Satan minus the bifurcated tail. Because he is the epitome of evil, anything that is good and pure and displaying the nobler traits is anathema to him, and he must destroy it. This includes a serious hate on for the Silver Surfer who is so pure of heart, and, in his earlier appearances, has tried often to sway him from the path of goodness through hook and by crook. However, his animosity isn't saved solely for SS. He has crossed paths with most of the major characters in the Marvel Universe, most notably Thor and the Fantastic Four, in an attempt to subvert them. REL: Father of Blackheart.
First appearance: SS1 #3

Mephisto's Beams of Bondage Rays emitted by one of Mephisto's constructs that coat an opponent in a casing which freezes them solid. It was used on Thor when he was accidentally sentenced to the Netherworld when he had been trapped in the body of Loki.
First appearance: TH1 #180

Mephisto's Globules of Madness Spheroid objects suspended on cords and triggered by trip wires which, when released, produce a number of different threats, including a liquid mystic life force that will try to smother an opponent and a large lizard like creature that emits the Beams of Bondage from it's eyes. The lord of the Netherworld used them to show his supremacy over Thor who had been accidentally sentenced there by his father, Odin, not realizing that Loki had switched bodies with him.
First appearance: TH1 #180

Mercenary, the (deceased) The hired gun who specializes in gadgetry and who is a master of disguise that was brought in to kill Cheryl Porter when she spilled to the authorities about the ship that smuggled Titanium Man into the US. When the girl went, as expected, to Tony Stark for help, he was able to follow because of the Micro-Wave Spy Monitors (almost undetectable audio bugs) he'd placed in all of Stark's vehicles. He traces them up to Stark's cabin in the Adirondacks where he eliminates Vincent Sandhurst, who was trying to kill Stark) and gains access to the well defended cabin with an Electro-Static Jamming Device (which shut down all of the electronic security) and tries to take down Iron Man I with a Black-out Mist (a dense fog that makes normal visual contact almost impossible) and a Hallucinogenic Flare (a pistol delivered flash that is supposed to dazzle all the senses). He locates the girl using a Cardio-Sonic Scanner (a small hand held device designed to locate a hidden subject by their heartbeat), and puts the final kibosh to Iron Man with a Magnetized Block (A device that, when coming in contact with IM's armor, absorbs all the current, making him helpless). Finally, reaching his target while impersonating Stark himself with special make-up, he doesn't make the hit because the man he left for dead, Sandhurst, shoots him dead thinking he was the real McCoy.
First appearance and demise: IM1 #23

Mercy Killers The trio of back up singers for the Hypno-Hustler whose sibilant voices, when combined with his special hypnotic goggles are able to completely mesmerize whole crowds of people. The group traveled from venue to venue using their special powers to not only rob the box office but the patrons as well, all without any of them being the wiser. It is uncertain whether the girls did the crimes willingly, having been under the spell of HH's goggles, but they were stopped by Spider-Man who first used them to mesmerize their leader and then webbed up their mouths for the police to deal with.
First appearance: SSM #24

Merle A small time thug working for the crime boss, Marty who was thwarted while robbing the Municipal Animal clinic in Dover, NH. and one of the vets (Jeff-Anything Man-Colt) returned and gave them a good thrashing with his newly developed powers.
First appearance: DEF #69

Merlin I The 6th century mystic and loyal advisor to King Arthur. The elder sorcerer is first seen when Kang returns to medieval Britain and imprisons him in the first step of taking control of Arthur's court. The Watcher sends the Thing and Human Torch II back to help. Torch frees the wizard, and he not only restores Johnny's ability to Flame on, but has the forethought to drain the power from Kang's energizer in his time ship to disable all of the conquerors' future weapons, making victory a breeze.
First appearance: ST1 #134

Merlin II (see: Warlock, Maha Yogi) An ancient 'magician' who claimed to be the true Merlin, but his magic really stemmed from his abilities as a mutant capable of telepathy, telekinesis, and Teleportation. A thousand years ago he set up a 'spell' to foil his enemies that caused him to sleep until his sarcophagus was again opened. This was done at the New York Museum, where he arose and decided to use his powers to seize control of the current government as he had centuries before. Thor I, however, after thwarting his attempts to cause havoc at Cape D'Or and in Washington, DC., convinced him that he was the greatest mage of this time, and got him to return to his sarcophagus. Although this one didn't last the 1000 years, because a short time later he resurfaced as the mystical hypnotist and faced members of the X-Men.
First appearance: JiM1 #96

Merlin III (Myrd) Protector of the multiverse. REL: Father of Roma.
First appearance: MTU #65

Merrick In an alternate universe, one of the hoods whose rackets Green Goblin I wanted to take over when he believed he had killed Spider-Man.
First appearance: WI?1 #24

Mesa of Lost Souls (La Mesa De la Almas Perdidas) The land mass in the Arizona desert where Warlord Kaa and his shadow warriors chose to kick off their second attempt on invading the Earth. Even their new ability to take over the minds of humans couldn't save them from the Champions, who not only thwarted their invasion plan but wiped out the fleet in one special blast created by one of Hawkeye's blast arrows and a dose of Hell-fire.
First appearance: CHM #11

Mesmerizer Wand A device created by the Rabble Rouser using the Hate Monger's Hatred Ray which which could be used to sap the will of large groups of people. Used to turn NYC against the Human Torch I, before he captured the Communist agent and melted the device.
First appearance: ST1 #119

Mesmero A mutant criminal with hypnotic powers, started a Cult in Magneto's name, built a hidden city in the desert, and peopled it with an army of robots with mutant powers called the Demi-Men First to seek out Lorna Dane mistaking her for Magneto's daughter. He and his cult were undone by the X-Men [UXM #52]. Later, to get revenge, he not only kidnapped the existing old members but the new line up as well, and hypnotized them all and stuck them in the Mr. Mike's One-Ring traveling Tents Show as performers and side show acts. When the deal finally went south thanks to the interference of the Beast, he was prepared to take the restored X-Men on, but was taken out with a cheap shot by Magneto [UXM #111]
First appearance: UXM #49

Metabolism Accelerator Device created by Mr. Fantastic, used by Wyatt Wingfoot to change the Thing back after being changed to stone by the Cosmic powered Dr. Doom.
First appearance: FF1 #58

Metalloid A high temperature metallic android probably made by the Mad Thinker. After coming to life inside a bank vault, it went on a very brief rampage before being destroyed by the Thing and Tigra.
First appearance and destruction: FF1 #179

Metallo-Net A specialized fishing net used by Dr. Walter Newell's team to capture the Sub-Mariner after he lost his ability to fly and breathe under water.
First appearance; SUB #19

Metal Master An Astran with the ability of mental control over all metals, tried to conquer Earth but was stopped by a trick enacted by the Hulk and the newly formed Teen Brigade.
First and only appearance: IH1 #6

Metazoid (Deceased) (XM-1) A Russian citizen found guilty of anti-state crimes, given a reprieve if he accepts to do dangerous space research. His body chemistry is altered so he becomes this super strong almost invulnerable blue monster. Told he would be returned to human if he captured the US scientist Dr. Walter Lawson from the Cape. Was killed by Captain Marvel I (who was impersonating the Dr.) with a rigged X-ray machine.
First appearance, origin, and death: CM1 #5

Meteor Man (deceased) (Norman G. Fester, form. the Looter) The costumed criminal who derives his powers from the meteorites he steals. He is super strong, and wears a red and white costume, and is fond of making his escapes with giant helium filled balloons. After first clashing with Spider-Man and going to jail, he came out with a name more fitting his crimes and continued trying to collect more and more meteors with which to experiment. This time, he ran afoul of the Defenders and was stopped again. On his third outing, he hit ESU again, only this time to steal certain Microwave components to finish his machine with which he could access the power from his meteors directly. He managed to sneak them out past not only Spidey but Giant-Man II as well, get them back to his lab in Hell's Kitchen, and finish his device before the heroes caught up with him. The device fed power directly into a back pack receiver and not only gave him increased strength, but allowed him to grow to gigantic stature. The machine however was ill-conceived and soon malfunctioned, hitting him with a burst of feedback that knocked him, even at the fifty foot height, into the sky, where the device explode, killing him.
First appearance: DEF #? Died: SSM #41

Metro Bank A business front for the base of operations of the Nth Command, a Roxxon subsidiary.
First appearance: MTO #67

Metro College University located in NYC (Columbia?). Staffed by Dean Asher, Coach Sam Thorne [first seen administrators], Prof. August Hopper (Locust) [UXM #23], Mr. Hamilton? [UXM #24], . Attended by Johnny Storm, Wyatt Wingfoot, Whitey Mullins [first seen students], Jean Grey, Ted Roberts [UXM #24], Calvin Rankin (Mimic) [UXM #26], Carole [UXM #34],.
First appearance: FF1 #50

Metropolitan News One of the NYC newspapers that ran the story about the appearance of Molto, and ran the first picture of him.
First appearance: JiM1 #97

M-4 Technique The code at the Project for a surgical procedure where a homing device is secretly placed within one of the X-Model robots, first seen being placed in X-51 when his face was being welded back on.
First appearance: 2001 #9

Michael, Ms. The head of the personnel office at Delazny Studios in Hollywood. She helped Johnny Blaze hunt down an employee who was a new hiree for the Stunt-Master television program by the name of Leopold Stryke, also known as Eel I.
First appearance: GHR2 #21

Michaels, Mr. Manager of the McDonald's on the New York State Thruway in Poughkeepsie.
First appearance: MIC1 #22

Mickey One of the operators at the toll plaza outside the Hudson Tunnel who were witness to the attack made upon the tunnel by hundreds of thousands of fish sent by Eelar. His partner, Ferdie, who was always spouting off about wanting action, froze in terror when the roof started to collapse.
First appearance: GS DEF #5

Microbe 201-B A microbe from the Negative Zone, that was being tested by Reed Richards, which, grew to enormous size when Quasimodo caused the Fantastic Four's computers to allow it to thaw. The creature was only susceptible to a concentrated saline solution.
First appearance: FF1 #201

Micronauts A term first coined by Mr. Fantastic referring to anyone exploring the new frontier of Sub-Atomica, when he, Human Torch II and the Thing enter the microscopic universe searching for the Silver Surfer.
First mentioned: FF1 #76

Micronauts A term first used for Commander Arcturus Rann when he set off 1000 years ago in the HMS Endeavor to explore the limits of the Microverse. Upon his return to a world dominated by the tyrant Baron Karza, he took on a team of freedom fighters dedicated to stopping the evil man and his minions and the spread of his blight acrross their universe. Later, after the fall of Karza, they became a team of explorers and adventurers. Team consists of: Com. Arcturus Rann (Space Glider) , Marionette (Princess Mari), Prince Acroyear, Microtron, Biotron, Bug [original members], Cilicia [ MIC1 #14], Jasmine [MIC1 #15], Nanotron [ MIC1 #30], Devil [ MIC1 #33]
First appearance and origin: MIC1 #1

Micronauts II A team of space adventurers picking up the pieces after the fall of Baron Karza in the Microverse aboard the ship Endeavor II, consisting of Space Glider, Marionette, Acroyear, Microtron, Biotron, Bug {original members},
First appearance: MIC2 #1

Microtron The surly but fiercely loyal roboid servant, tutor and guardian of Marionette. He is about four feet tall, with treads instead of legs, and his arms telescope to great lengths. He was torn apart by Antron Droids. GA: Micronauts.
First appearance: MIC1 #1 Destroyed: MIC1 #

Microverse (form. Doom's Micro-World, Sub-Atomica) A sub-atomic universe tyrannically ruled by the evil Baron Karza located on the other side of the 'Space Wall' from our universe, the prime planet cluster is called Homeworld, other worlds include: Spartak, Kiliklak,
First named: MIC1 #1

Midas The hugely over weight criminal mastermind whose main goal in life is to do whatever it takes to increase his already vast wealth. He originally teamed up with Madame Masque in a bid to replace Tony Stark and harvest Stark Industries. He normally wears clothing that is reminiscent of ancient Greece, and, because of his size, he uses a hovering platform as his mode of transportation.
First appearance: IM1 #18?

Midgard Serpent (Jormungand) The enormous snake, according to Norse mythology, that surrounds the Earth with it's coils that will become active during Ragnarok, the end of everything, fabled to be found chewing on the roots of Yggdrasil. The serpent is green with blank, round red eyes. REL: Son of Loki. Brother of Hela and Fenris Wolf.
First appearance (in Volla's prophesy): TH1 #127 Actual appearance: TH1 #?

Midget One of the Shi'ar elite guard who has the power to shrink her body down to 1/20th of her normal stature (and possibly smaller). Her costume is maroon and black with light blue swashbuckler boots, and besides her red hair being puffed into a large flower like ball, she appears perfectly human. In his first appearance, he and his team mates were protecting Emperor D'Ken Neramani from The X-Men and the Starjammers, who were trying to stop him from destroying the universe. GA: Imperial Guard.
First appearance; UXM #107

Midnight (deceased) (see: Midnight Sun) A master of kung fu second only to Shang Chi (his half brother through Fu Manchu) who was killed by the young martial arts expert who cleanly broke his neck Later, his body was resurrected along with Wonder Man (AV1 #131-2) after which, somehow, the Kree got a hold of his copse and put it on ice until they could find a use for it. They did finally during the second Kree-Skrull War when they reanimated him and augmented him as a weapon to directly counter the Silver Surfer. REL: Half brother of Shang Chi. Grandson of Fu Manchu.
First appearance, origin, and death: SME #16

Midnight's Fire (Midnight's Fire Chord) A super powered hero turned criminal, he has augmented strength and speed that lift his considerable martial arts abilities to a formidable level. He wears some body armor, and sports a Mohawk with a long braided pony tail. In the past, he worked with his sister breaking up small time gangs operating in his neighborhood, using the girl as bait to infiltrate the various operations, and soon, they had joined with a newbie hero, Dwayne Taylor, and formed his first crime fighting team. Unfortunately, one night an operation went bad; an unexpected police officer arrived on the scene. His partner stopped him from killing the cop to save his sister, and the girl was caught in the resultant crossfire. In his anger, he slashed the face of Taylor and rushed to his sister's aid. He got her what medical care he could manage, but she was left without the use of her legs, for which he blamed Taylor. Some time later, he surfaced again, but at the head of a protection racket in his old neighborhood, and made the news after killing three police officers. He left a note that would attract the attention of his old partner, and soon Taylor, now Night Thrasher and head of the New Warriors obliged. While Fire and Thrasher duked it out, the rest of the Warriors dealt with fire's new gang, who were outfitted with weaponry from AIM. During the fight, twice Thrasher was in a position to kill his rival, but in the end, satisfied himself with leaving a scar similar to his on Fire's face. In the end, his people, who learned this had all been an extortion racket, and his own sister turned against him, and he was handed over to the police. After serving several month s on Rikers Island, he was sprung by the Left Hand as part of his new team all of whom he promised the truth about their existence. The truth turned out to be that he and his sister were part of some selective breeding program devised by the Dragon's Breadth Cult to create super powerful beings capable of seizing control of the Well of All Things and the world per their prophesies and machinations set in motion by his grandmother. When they were still young, their mother faked their death and placed them in an orphanage in hopes of their escaping the clutches of the Cult, but he was identified and recruited by the Hand (so he could seize the power for himself) and the beans were spilt prematurely. REL: Brother of Silhouette. Son of Andrew and Miyami Chord. Grandson of Tai. GA: Folding Circle.
First appearance and origin: NW #2 Origin: NW #23-4

Midnight Sun (see: Midnight) The master of kung fu that had his neck cleanly broken by Shang Chi, kept frozen by the Kree in a warehouse on Bodoni-20 until they had need of him, and was revived, years later, by the Scientist, Kar-Sagg, who rebuilt his body, repairing the spinal injury and enhanced with hypertronics to increase his speed and strength. They regrew his brain in nutrients chosen to enhance his physical upgrades and replaced the personality and memories with ones to suit their purposes (removing his ability to speak), all to counter the power of the Silver Surfer during the second Kree-Skrull War. His outfit is a body suit of dark red finished with a slouch hat and cape, and his hands and feet are fitted with discs that allow him to negotiate even the void of space. He was pitted against the Surfer twice during the war. Once simply as a diversion to keep him distracted from the main battle between the Kree and the Empress S'Byll which ended before either could win, and the second, in the skies above Hala, the actual real combat between the two, where the new construct, even with his enhanced martial art skills, couldn't compete with the power cosmic. He was rescued by his creator, who was going to start all over with him and wipe the few wisps of memory he still maintained, but he broke free of the lab, with Kar-Sagg's help and went on a mission of discovery to find out who he really is (SS3 AN #4).
First appearance and origin: SS3 #29

Midtown Business Executives Club A very exclusive club for the wealthy heads of industry in the New York area, members include: J Jonah Jameson, Norman Osborn [first seen members],
First appearance: ASM #23

Midtown Hotel A posh hotel in midtown Manhattan with an extravagant ballroom located in the penthouse. A fashion show was held there by Roderick Kingsley but was sabotaged by Belladonna.
First appearance: SSM #43

Midtown Museum A New York museum from which the Chameleon stole a painting posing as Capt. George Stacy.
First appearance: ASM #80

Midvale A town in the suburbs of NYC where Peter Parker attended school and where Janus lived before becoming the Nega-Man..
First appearance (unnamed): AF #15. Named: FF1 #108.

Midvale High School The high school attended by Peter Parker, Liz Allen, Flash Thompson [first seen students]. Faculty consisted of: Mr. Warren [first seen member], Mr. Davis [ASM #26],
First appearance (unnamed): AF #15

Mighty Destroyer (see: Brian Falsworth, Union Jack II) Costumed hero during WWII. REL: Brother of Spitfire. Son of Union jack I and Lady Falsworth. Nephew of Baron Blood.
First appearance: INV #18

Mikal The pilot Sheik Abdul Hurani's,a nd the one ordered to fire missiles upon the Arabian Knight while his master was trying to destroy the Al Khubar Oil Refinery. It is assumed that he was taken down along with the others when Kngiht was joined by Ghost Rider IV.
First appearance: GHR2 #62

Mike (deceased) (see: Mechanoid Scout MK-5) The name taken by the alien android when he took human guise and picked up with the girl, Belinda Thompkins to further study the human race. he was killed trying to save the girl from two escaped convicts, Baldy Kolak and Rasko.
First appearance and demise: IM1 #32

Mike One of the Death Riders who was, with his pal Al, busy guarding one of the entrances to the secret meeting place of the Cult of Death. When a general assembly was called, he went on ahead leaving his friend behind to finish his cigarette.
First appearance: GHR2 #39

Mike One of the residents of Edinburgh who was plagued by the reality altering abilities of Proteus II when he began ransacking the city after taking possession of his father's body. he and his girlfriend were saved from a swarm of killer bees made from a nearby storefront by Storm.
First appearance: UXM #128

Mike One of the pit crew at the Langtree Motors test track who razzes his boss, Carl Travis about the latest stray (Johnny Blaze) that their boss, Gina Langtree, had brought home. He was aware of Travis' plan to marry her to get his hands on the Langtree fortune.
First appearance: GHR2 #41

Mike One of the police officers that find the severely beaten body of Black Alfred in an alley outside the Taylor Building. He not only surrenders to them, he also admits to killing Malachi Toomes if only they'd keep the Vulture I away from him.
First appearance: SSM #45

Mike One of the locals in the small mid western town that was plagued by giant vampire Hell-Bats who was gathered by Jake as a posse to lynch Ghost Rider IV whom he had seen falling from the sky (after battling said bats) and change to human. They were worried that hanging might no work, so they were prepared to shoot, burn or do whatever it took to put him down. Their plan was interrupted by the timely appearance of the local sheriff.
First appearance: GHR2 #48

Mike One of the police officers who responded to the bank robbery that was broken up by Spider-Man. They were reacting o a tip from Doctor Doom because the heist brought them over one of his Project Omega sites.
First appearance: MTE #28

Mikey In an alternate reality, one of the children who stayed at the orphanage run by Catherine and Henry.
First appearance: WI?1 #15

Miklho (deceased) A trained gorilla that was intentionally exposed to cosmic rays by the Red Ghost giving him super strength. After his master lost his powers to turn intangible, the ape was euthanized by the Soviet State. GA: Red Ghost's Super Apes.
First appearance: FF1 #13 Reported deceased: IM1 #15

Mildred One of the neighbors to Giant Man I's Manhattan HQ who doesn't care much for his comings and goings, particularly those involving insects. REL: Wife of Andrew.
First appearance: TtA1 #69

Milena (Deceased) REL: Mother of Gorgon. Aunt of Blackbolt, Karnak and Triton. Wife of Korath.

Miller, Casey (Mr. Casey) The owner of a rodeo outfit and ranch near the Copperhead Canyon who was to sponsor the Crash Simpson Daredevil Cycle Show, from which, Ghost Rider IV was to jump the canyon as their finale. When the local Apache tribe began to put the kibosh to the jump, his lack of concern at first made him a suspect to the sabotage, but it was chalked up to the fact that he didn't cotton to having motorcycles involved in a rodeo. He is sometimes erroneously called Mr. Casey.
First appearance: MSL1 #8

Miller, Chill (Deceased) In an alternate universe, the thief and murderer who escaped prison only to be brought to justice by the hell fire of Ghost Rider IV.
First appearance: WI?1 #17

Miller, Rev. The minister who marries Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Girl.
First appearance: FF1 #37

Milner, Katy (see: Roxanne Simpson) A Hollywood stunt person who was hired on at Delazny Studios to be Karen Page's stunt double. She develops a crush on Johnny Blaze during the shooting and even arranges lodgings for him with friends of hers, Wendy and Richard Pini. During a particularly difficult stunt, she is wounded by the Orb who was trying to kidnap Karen, and the head injury leaves her wide open to an attack from demons who possess her. Johnny calls in his old friend, Son of Satan to perform an exorcism which works but isn't her biggest problem. The arch demon, Challenger is the cause of the whole matter and Ghost Rider IV is forced to ride an infernal gauntlet to save her life. When the demon is defeated, Katy is revealed to be Johnny's long time love, Roxanne Simpson.
First appearance: GHR2 #13 Revealed as Rocky: GHR2 #19

Milt A tower guard at the federal prison where Monk Keefer was being held, was on duty the night Cat-Man I used a Blackout Bomb to break the felon out for the Organization.
First appearance: DD1 #10

Mimic (Deceased) (Calvin Rankin) A genetically altered human who is uncontrollably able to mimic the powers of other beings, as long as he is in proximity with them, originally a bad guy, later became (briefly) the team leader of the X-Men. Created by his father, Dr. Ronald Rankin, who also built a machine to reverse the process. He is not a mutant.
First appearance: UXM #19 Died: IH1 #161

Mind Eraser A Kree device used to either erase portions of someone's memory, or, under extreme circumstances, completely wipe someone's mind. Sent to Yon-Rogg by Ronan to use on Captain Marvel I if his actions continued to prove un-Kree and traitorous, first used by CM to remove the memories of Mr. Logan, who had guessed his real identity.
First appearance: CM1 35

Mindless Ones The large powerful almost amorphous creatures that exist in the dimension adjacent to the Dark Dimension by a very fragile barrier kept in check by the power of the Ruler of the Dark Dimension. Their only purpose is to destroy anything in their vicinity.
First appearance: ST1 #127

Mind Monitor (Destroyed) A super computer, using a holographic form of a demonic creature for a front, who was the head of the Brotherhood of Hades. Wanted to capture Mister Machine and study him to help it to achieve universal mind control over the human race. It is destroyed when the X-Model robot set the machine to self destruct.
First appearance and destruction: 2001 #10

Mind Shock A last resort doomsday device powered by the Great Pit of the Body Banks which was intended to destroy all of Homeworld when Baron Karza faced defeat. But the device back fired and Karza's disembodied spirit was cast into the Pit.
First appearance: MIC1 #11

Mindsinger (Gregor Buhkarov) Poet of the Young Gods.
First appearance: TH1 #300

Mindtrap Mechanism A small device created by the White Queen that enabled Mastermind to expand his powers in a psychic direction, allowing his to cause the Timeslips that enabled him to subvert Phoenix II to his will as the Black Queen. When she regained her own will, she used the device to expand his mind even further to encompass the whole universe, which left him mentally broken.
First appearance: UXM #134

Mind-Wave (Deceased) (?) Super powered criminal.
First appearance: DD1 #133 Killed by Scourge: CAP1 #319

Mindworm (William Turner) A mentally distressed and physically distorted person with the ability to siphon emotions from those around him and feed off of them, growing stronger from their minds and souls, sort of a psychic parasite. He was also able to mentally control others and could telepathically create realistic images in others' minds. Holed up in a shack in Queens, he went up against Spider-Man and lost when the web slinger popped his ear drums, stifling his hearing and his psychic connection. Unable to draw sustenance, he began to starve to death and was brought to the hospital where he lay death-like for months until he was able to focus his mind and tore through the barriers that keep most men from utilizing their full brain capacity. He then employed this new power to run Spidey through a deadly labyrinth in hopes of gaining revenge, but what resulted was his finally facing the deep seated guilt of having accidentally killed his parents as a child when he hadn't had full control of his burgeoning powers. When he was through, it turned out the whole matter had been a sort of dream, and Mindworm was ready for the first time to take responsibility for his actions and his powers. Included in the dream was the image of his nurse whom he had raised to the status of doctor and for whom he has feelings [SSM #35].
First appearance: ASM #138

Mindy (deceased) The girlfriend of Kyle (Nighthawk I) Richmond while he was in college who dies in a reckless automobile accident while Kyle was at the wheel.
First appearance and death: DEF #32

Mindy (see: Mindy Brown) Girl-friend of the Prowler. her leaving him was one of the reasons he became a costumed criminal.
First appearance: ASM #78

Mindy One of the cashiers at the Food Acres grocery store in Montclair, NJ who ended up ringing through the Hulk's giant bean order after he and Valkyrie III had just thwarted a hold up.
First appearance: DEF #89

Minerva, Doctor Kree geneticist who was fiercely loyal to the Supreme Intelligence. Long time partner with Capt. Atlas, early on very often at odds with Captain Marvel I. During the Kree-Shi'Ar War, she was thought to have died when Atlas faked his own suicide (AV1 #347). In fact, the pair has deserted and slinked off to an out of the way pastoral planet to be the parents of a new race of supermen to restart the Kree Empire with their superior genes (SS3 #79). Minerva wears a costume similar to Captain Marvel with the red and blue bodysuit with the star on the chest and a blue diamond mask.
First appearance: CM1 #49

Minh Chu Communist sympathizer who attacked the Vietnamese village where Thor was seeking the missing Norn Stones.
First appearance: JiM1 #117

Minotaur A creature that resembles the mythological figure, first directed by the Mole Man against the new team of Avengers in Mexico.
First appearance: AV1 #17

Minotaur II (Myklos Vryolak) The son of a scientist who became deathly ill as a child, but was saved by his father's new potion designed to make a master race. However, the potion had side effects, and, not only did the boy brow larger and stronger than someone his age, he also developed the attributes of a minotaur, the legs, horned head and temperment of a bull. Later, he is the unwilling pawn of his father, using his appearance and strength to gain money for his father's research. REL: Son of Dr. Vryolak.
First appearance: IM1 #24

Miracle Man (Deceased) ('Brother Joshua') Mass hypnotist who can create incredibly convincing illusions, mainly to assist him in the commission of various crimes. Was the person who outted the Fantastic Four's secret IDs to the public. Later, he duped the Cheemuzwa Indians into teaching him the ability of mind over matter, and he was able to make his illusions real.
First appearance: FF1 #3 Killed by Scourge: TNG #24

Mirage I (Desmond Charne) Small time criminal who uses an armored suit that can project holograms of himself, operates with a small gang, tried to rob Ned Leeds and Betty Brant's wedding ceremony.
First appearance: ASM1 #156 Killed by Scourge: CAP1 #319

Mirage II (Danielle 'Dani' Moonstar, see: Psyche) Indian mutant with the ability to create realistic images of people's greatest fears and desires, later was able to make the images tangible. REL: Daughter of William and Peg Lonestar. GA: New Mutants.
First appearance: MGN #4

Mirmir, King The necromantic king of a distant land where is kept the enchanted fountain. Thor I was sent to him by Odin with a branch of Yggdrasill, and when he stirred the fountain water with the branch, the drops fell to Midgard and produced the first two humans on Earth.
First appearance: JiM1 #103

Misfit Super powered criminal who was given super strength by Power Brokers Inc, but was also deformed. GA: Night Shift.
First appearance: WCA #40

Mishna An alien woman who, because her condition in life is so poor as is that of her husband and children, that she contemplates selling her soul to Mephisto to improve their lot, but is fortunately talked out of it by the Silver Surfer. She is primarily human in appearance but with hair only on the back of her head and with symmetrical protrusion from forehead to cheek over each eye. REL: Wife of Tonian.
First appearance: SS3 AN #2

Miskatonic University The small New England college where TW Erwin is the professor of Mathematics.
First appearance: AV1 #83

Miss America (Madelyne Joyce Frank) WWII costumed heroine who was struck by lightning and given super powers. REL: Wife of Whizzer I. Mother of Nuklo. Once believed that she was the mother of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. GA: Invaders, Liberty Legion, All-Winners Squad.
First appearance: MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #49. First modern: GSAV1 #1

Missing Link (Lincoln) A man who was subjected to radioactive experimentation by an Oriental Communist nation (and delivered on US soil via an X-Capsule from one of their freighters) that emits deadly amount of radiation and hungers for conflict. If the radiation is not released, it causes a chain reaction which causes it to explode. It is super strong but possesses an instability that allows great force to shatter its crystalline makeup, which the Hulk took full advantage of in their second encounter to shatter it into thousands of pieces. It also has the ability to reform its shape over time, and eventually settles peacefully in a small mining town where it is cured of its radioactive curse by Rom.
First appearance: IH1 #105

Mr. Blue The sobriquet given to Yondu when he and Hulk were forced into playing Super-Death Sweepstakes on the hedonistic planet ruled by emperor Goozot and under the Badoon thumb. They were forced into gladiatorial games that were meant to spell their certain doom.
First appearance: DEF #28

Mr. Buda (see: Contemplator) The name used by the Contemplator when he assisted Captain America I in his dilemma on the country's bicentennial of finding the true meaning of being an American. He took Cap, unwillingly at first (planting a Psychic Talisman to transport him), to different key time periods for the country's past and then into the future, but when the message wouldn't sink, he left him to the tender mercies of some children, and he learned the true meaning. It is uncertain whether he was actually in those time periods or if the whole trip was just an illusion.
First appearance: MTS #2

Mr. Buda's Energy Pyramid The ornate glass cabinet employed by the contemplator to help him in the process of astral projection. One side of the cabinet open, and the inside is cushioned for his body while he's journeying elsewhere.
First appearance: MTS #2

Mr. Buda's Psychic Talisman The device the Contemplator placed in the palm of Captain America I which took him from time period to time period when he was trying to reestablish Cap's belief in his country and what it meant to be an American. It was a triangle inscribed in a small circle which glowed when it was ready to transport him elsewhere. When the lesson was almost done, the sigil began to fade, until it disappeared completely.
First appearance: MTS #2

Mr. Doll A costumed villain who bested Iron Man I so sorely in his old boiler plate armor that he nearly gave up being a costumed hero. Instead, he created his new lighter weight red and gold armor and bested the fellon.
First appearance: ToS1 #45

Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards, see: Invincible Man II) Scientific genius (holding thousands of patents) who, after exposure to cosmic rays, found he could stretch and mold his body like an elastic, and founded the first family of super heroes in the MU, often becomes so absorbed in his work that he sometimes neglects other important things, including his wife and family. Long time rival of Doctor Doom, who blames Reed for most of his many problems, including his scarred face. REL: Husband of Invisible Girl/Woman. Brother-in-law of the Human Torch II. Father of Franklin Richards. Son of Evelyn and Nathanial Richards. GA: Fantastic Four, Avengers.
First appearance: FF1 #1

Mr. Fantastic-A (Benjamin Grimm-A) In the world of Earth-A, the fateful journey into space was made only by the Ben and Reed Richards of that world, but instead of becoming the thing, Ben is not only granted with the stretching powers of this world's Mr. Fantastic but with the flaming powers of this world's Human Torch II as well. REL: Husband of Sue Grimm.
First appearance: FF1 #118

Mister Fear I (Zoltan Drago) Super criminal wearing a fright mask and cape, who could transform wax figures into living beings with a special chemical. Used his special Fear Gas, which augmented the emotion of fear, as his primary weapon.
First appearance: DD1 #6

Mister Fear II (see: Samuel 'Starr' Saxon, Machinesmith) Businessman who, with his incredible mechanical abilities, created a weapon that could augment the emotion of fear to a crippling level and chose to use it against humanity. Also created a flying platform to better deliver this menace. Planted time release fear pellets in Daredevil's billy club and then challenged him to a public confrontation to discredit him by making him appear cowardly. Took a header off his platform and was assumed dead, and it wasn't until his death that it was realized that this was not the original Mr. Fear.
First appearance: DD1 #54 Final appearance: DD1 #55

Mr. Fear II's Flyer A hubcap shaped flying platform created by Starr Saxon to give him the upper hand when he attacked Daredevil in a public confrontation, and it was from this platform that he fell to his 'death'.
First appearance: DD1 #54

Mr. Fear II's Repello Ray A handheld weapon devised by Starr Saxon that would deliver a concussive force blast that was meant to stun rather than kill. He used it on Daredevil to knock him from his Flyer.
First appearance: DD1 #54

Mister Fear III (Larry Cranston) Criminal who obtained custody of Mr. Fear II's equipment. REL: Uncle of Mr. Fear IV.
First appearance: DD1 #91

Mister Fear IV (Alan Fagan) a criminal utilizing Mr. Fear II's equipment. REL: Nephew of Mr. Fear III.
First appearance: MTU1 #92

Mister Fix-it (Bruce Banner, see: Hulk) The gray intelligent Hulk spends some time as an enforcer in Las Vegas, changes effected by night and day again. REL: Son of Rebecca and Brian Banner. Cousin of She-Hulk. Ex-husband of Betty Banner.
First appearance: IH1 #

Mr. Green The sobriquet given to Hulk when he and Yondu were forced into playing Super-Death Sweepstakes on the hedonistic planet ruled by emperor Goozot and under the Badoon thumb. They were forced into gladiatorial games that were meant to spell their certain doom.
First appearance: DEF #28

Mr. Hyde (Calvin Zabo) A scientist who, with a certain chemical, can become the powerful and incredibly fierce super criminal, often teamed with the Cobra. Has a hate on for Thor when, as Dr. Blake, he refused him a job. Often wears a top hat and top coat like his nineteenth century namesake. GA: Trio of Doom.
First appearance: JiM1 #99

Mr. Immortal (Craig ?) A mutant with the ability to continually resurrect himself. GA: Great Lakes Avengers.
First appearance: WCA #46

Mister Jip One of the 10 most powerful Earth born sorcerers, first apprentice of the Ancient One.
First appearance (in host body): ST2 #8 In true form: ST2 #11

Mister Machine (Aaron Stack, form. X-51, see: Machine Man) The more human sounding name adopted by X-51 after encountering the Monolith for the first time as he escaped from the Project and began to seek his personal destiny. This was soon changed to his current name.
First appearance: 2001 #9

Mr. Mike's One-ring Traveling Tent Show The traveling carnival that featured the talents of the X-Men, who had been hypnotized into service by Mesmero. Wolverine became the Man-Best of the Yukon in the freak show, Storm became a wild woman in the freak show, and Nightcrawler a demon for the same, and Colossus a steel skinned strong man, where Phoenix II became a flaming aerialist known as Ms. Destiny, with Slim (Cyclops) Summers as her handler. When Beast came looking for them via Cerebro, he approached Phoenix first an was rebuffed and captured by the other roustabouts, but his rough handling broke Wolverine free of his conditioning; and he was able to free the rest. It is uncertain whether there was ever a Mr. Mike or if the whole arrangement was orchestrated by Mesmero to get his revenge on the team form their interference in his Magneto Cult (UXM #52). When it was first seen, it was operating in Sullivan County in Texas. Staff members include, Mesmero, Ms. Destiny, Slim Summers, Man-Best of the Yukon, Nick Jukie, Bruno, Georgie, Willis, Georgie, Billy-Boy, Lotta Little [first seen members].
First appearance: UXM #111

Mr. Nebul (see: Nebulon) In his return to Earth after his first defeat by the Defenders he used the power of his people and disguised himself as a nondescript little man and began a movement he believed would be in the best interest of the human race, a plan to take control over all their minds using Celestial Mind Control, leaving them blissfully happy and care free. After his first seminar making bozos out of people failed, he teamed up with Chondu and began to spread his cult all over the globe. As his followers spead across the globe, he nearly was appointed as a member of the UN council.
First appearance (unnamed): DEF #34 Named: DEF AN #1

Mr. Pierre's Salon A prestigious pet grooming salon in NYC frequented by the pampered poodle Francoise.
First mention: SS3 AN #3

Mister Rasputin The descendant of the infamous Russian monk, this criminal sorcerer began stealing state secrets using illusions and reselling them to the highest bidder in his bid toward world domination. When he was detected by Doctor Strange, he was unable to defeat the more powerful wizard, so he shot the Sorcerer Supreme with a gun, and even sent an assassin to kill him in the hospital. However, even in his weakened state, Strange defeated Rasputin, wiped his mystical knowledge, and commanded him to confess his crimes to the police. The mage returned later as an image in a spell cast by Clea as basically a shadowy outline of what he had been. This time, he nearly defeated Strange, and might have if not for the timely intervention of the Sub-Mariner, who shattered the purple silhouette [GS DEF #1].
First appearance: ST1 #145

Mister Sinister An evil mutant telepath whose main goal in life is, through clever manipulation, to promote the eventual dominance of mutant kind. He is a skilled genetic engineer, can create powerful memory blocks in others, and has been very interested in the Summer's family gene pool (Havok and Cyclops since before they even became X-Men). Creator of the Jean Grey clone, Madelyne Pryor, and leader of the Marauders. Sinister is particularly susceptible to the optic blasts of Cyclops.
First appearance (in shadow): UXM #213 Full appearance: UXM #221

Mist-Men The inhabitants of the Sargasso Sea, all mariners who had become marooned in the seaweed choked graveyard of ships, ranging in time from ancient Egypt to more modern sailors. They are named such because of the strange mist that surrounds the Sargasso and grants them all immortality. Led by the first denizen, Nakhbet, they had a long standing treaty with the Atlanteans, until it was broken when the Mist-Men destroyed Warlord Thakos' vessel while searching for Tiger Shark. The villain quickly usurped the leadership of the closed society, and led them to their doom when they ventured outside the mist. Now only Nakhbet remains.
First appearance: SUB #16

Mitchell A man in NYC who, when he expressed concern for he and his girlfriend, Cissy's welfare when she decided to take a canoe ride in Central Park in the dark was derided by her for being a sissy, but she soon ate her words when they were both kidnapped not by muggers but by the Ludberdite henchmen of Nebulon and taken to the island where his Celestial Mind Control machine was set up and used for a battery like the others to power it.
First appearance: DEF #33

Mjolnir The mystical Uru hammer of Thor, commissioned by Odin, forged by the Trolls, can summon storms and at one time could bridge dimensions, also allows Thor to "fly". The hammer must not leave Thor's hands for more than 60 seconds or he will revert to human, and, if able, the hammer always returns to his hands. No one other than Thor, the Destroyer, and Odin can pick up the hammer, no matter their strength.
First appearance: JiM1 #83 Broken: JiM1 #118 Reforged in Pittsburg: JiM1 #120

M'Kraan Crystal An huge ancient crystal that, on a certain day when the Deathstars align becomes a gateway to the Neutron Galaxy, and if it ever is breeched, it could cause the end of the universe and unravel reality. It is guarded by powerful robots starting with the smallest, Jahf, who, if unable to stop an invader, is replaced by a robot 1000 times as powerful as he is, namely Modt, and if he should fail, another 1000 time stronger would replace him and so on. In a bid for more power, the emperor of the Shi'ar empire, D'ken Neramani gained access to the Crystal, and only the supreme efforts of the X-Men, and particularly Phoenix II, the Crystal is repaired and the universe saved, but D'ken is driven insane in the process.
First appearance: UXM #107

M'ndavians An advanced semi-humanoid race from the planet M'ndavi.
First appearance: FF1 #262

Mnemonic Scrambler A device created by Hank (Beast) McCoy that was supposed to scramble the mind of Dark Phoenix to keep her from forming coherent thoughts much less accessing her telekinetic powers so that they could subdue her. While she was off guard, Nightcrawler managed to place the head band on her and it worked to a point. Although she couldn't access her telekinetic powers, she was still to powerful to apprehend, and she eventually overloaded the device and burned it out.
First appearance: UXM #136

Mobians An advanced, bulky humanoid race from the planet Mobius.
First appearance: IH1 #136

Mobspawn One of Reptyl's Space Pirates. More humanoid than many of his brethren, it is hinted that he is romantically involved with Lilita and is sort of friends with Clumsy Foul-up. He wears a bandana tied around his head, has an ear-ring and wears a sidearm.
First appearance: SS3 #12 (actually seen on the cover of SS3 #11)

Mockingbird ('Roberta Morse', see: Barbara 'Bobbi' Morse, Agent 19, Huntress) Ex-SHIELD agent turned costumed heroine, has only a jointed quarter staff for a weapon. REL: Wife of Hawkeye. GA: WCA.
First appearance: MTU #95

Model X3Z (deceased) (see: Omega the Unknown) The name (translated from the Protarian) which denoted which level of bioorganic android he was before sending him to the planet Srenesk.
First appearance: OMU #1 Died: OMU #10

MODOK (Deceased) (George Tarlton, Mobile Organism Designed Only for Computing) A super powered criminal created by AIM by increasing his intelligence until he was transformed into a creature with an gigantic oversized head and atrophied arms and legs. His mode of transportation is a hovering chair.
First appearance (voice only): ToS1 #93 Full appearance: ToS1 #94 Died: CAP1 #133

Modred the Mystic A 6th century mystic, emissary of Chthon.
First appearance: MCH #1

Modt The second guardian robot in defense of the gateway created when the M'Kraan Crystal is breeched. After the failure of Jahf, the gigantic robot that is supposedly 1000 times more powerful than his predecessor takes his place. If the huge automaton should fail, supposedly another 1000 times stronger would replace him and so on. After the X-Men defeated the nearly invulnerable Jahf, who had appeared after D'Ken Neramani managed to breech the Crystal, Modt was activated. The X-Men and the Starjammers didn't stand a chance against him, and if they hadn't got access to the inside early in the fight, they'd have been smudges on a no name planet. none of the robots are allowed to follow them inside, and once having been inside, the guardians disappear.
First appearance: UXM #108

Moe One of Belladonna's thugs who were helping her to get revenge on Roderick Kingsley. During their first appearance, they wore stocking masks which hid their faces and the special respirators needed so they weren't affected by their boss' gas gun, black turtle neck shirts and purple slacks. They weren't particularly well trained or well armed, just your run of the mill hired muscle. After they rescued their boss from her other hired thug, Prowler II, they were easily subdued by Spider-Man and handed over to Det. Sgt. Snider.
First appearance (unnamed): SSM #43 Named and faces exposed: SSM #48

Mogol A giant robot employed by Tyrannus, destroyed by the Hulk, who had been brought to Subterranea as a dupe to fight the Mole Man.
First appearance: IH1 #127

Mogul (of the Mystic Mountain) (deceased) The warlock and evil tyrant of Xandu, who took over and enslaved their surrounding countrymen, including Hogun's homeland, threatened to release the Spotted Plague to exterminate his people when Thor and the Warriors Three tried to unseat him in his stronghold in the Mystic Mountains. On top of his magical abilities, technological weaponry, and numerous servants and warriors, he was master of the Jinni Devil, Sulibeg, Mutaurus, and Satan's 40 Horsemen, all of whom he pitted against his besiegers. In the end, he was destroyed by one of his own enchanted crystals wielded by Alibar and enhanced by Hogun's spell of temporal force.
First appearance: TH1 #137 Died: TH1 #145

Mogul's sister The sister of the tyrant Mogul who tried to mislead Volstagg in the caverns of Xandu, leading him afoul of Mutaurus, before he discovered her true identity and she unwittingly led him to The Rod of Wondrous Wizard Power.
First appearance: TH1 #?

Mojo The evil, obese, spineless ruler of Mojoworld, whose single purpose of existence involved entertaining himself with twisted television shows, usually involving deadly confrontation between unwilling participants, but he was not content being the absolute ruler of the parallel dimension and often tried to force his reign to Earth. He was killed by his successor, Mojo II.
First appearance: LNSH LTD #3

Mojo II Killer of Mojo and the successor as ruler of Mojoworld.
First appearance: ?

Mojoworld The bizarre parallel dimension ruled by Mojo (and later Mojo II) whose system of government is set up like a movie studio and its main function is to entertain the king with a series of twisted television programs. The primary inhavitants: Longshot, Mojo, Spiral, Mojo II,
First appearance: LNSH LTD #1?

Mole The diminutive and twisted criminal mastermind who convinced Peter van Zante to pursue a life of crime. Working with him, he set him up for his first job, to rob a brokerage house in LA.
First appearance: GHR2 #23

Molecula, Mistress of Density (Julie Power, form. Lightspeed) GA: Power Pack.

Molecular Condenser A device invented by Carl Caxton which, inadvertently gets turned on Stilt Man and he is shrunk to 'nothing'.
First appearance: DD1 #8

Molecular Polluter A device invented by Mr. Markham II that would, when activated, destroy the Earth's ecosystem. The first device was destroyed by the Sub-Mariner, and the second and final was thrown into space by Namor and Captain Marvel II just as it was activating.
First appearance: SUB #30

Molecule Man (Owen Reece) Probably one of the most powerful criminals on Earth, able to rearrange molecules of non-living things at will, created in a freak nuclear accident, uses his Molecular Wand to amplify and direct his powers. Identified by the lighting bolt marks across his face. For a time, he was imprisoned in his Wand (IM AN #3) and was searching for a new host body, entering Aaron Skankey, and Reed Richards [FF1 #187],.
First appearance: FF1 #20

Mole Man A former nuclear engineer who, because of his odd appearance was driven out by society and sought refuge in the bowels of the Earth, now the leader of the Moloid Subteraneans and head of his own kingdom, he often seeks revenge on the surface world, rival of Tyrranus and Kala for supreme rulership of Subterranea. He is rarely seen without his staff in which he has secreted a multitude of controls.
First appearance and origin: FF1 #1

Mole Man's Android Incredibly powerful robot created by the combined genius of the Mole Man and the technology of Kala's Netherworld. Sicced on the Fantastic Four when they attacked his HQ on the eve of his wedding. it is presumed destroyed.
First appearance: FF1 #128

Mole Man's Magma-Cruiser The heat-proof ship that Mole Man uses to travel through Subterranea. Destroyed when Tyrannus tried to use it as an escape ship.
First appearance: FF1 #? Destroyed: FF1 #128

Moli One of the trusted nobles in the court of Jarella on K'ai.
First appearance: IH1 #156

Molinari, Dr. The Invisible Girl's doctor when she was pregnant with Franklin, first to discover the Cosmic radiation flashes in her red blood cells.
First appearance (unnamed): FF1 #78 named: FF1 An. #6

Moloids (Moloid Subterraneans) Race of small, almost sightless yellow humanoids found in Subterranea by the Mole Man and subjugated to his rule. They were originally created by the Deviants.
First appearance: FF1 #24

Molten Man (Mark Raxton) While working with Spencer Smythe, Raxton's skin is coated with an experimental metal which makes him almost impervious and allows him to emit great amounts of heat, eventually the alloy penetrates his skin and causes his actual body to burn instead of just the coating. REL: Step-brother of Liz Allen (Osborn). Nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Allen.
First appearance and origin: ASM1 #28

Molto (Deceased) (the Lava Man) The Lava Man who was brought to the surface through a volcano by Loki to pit against his half brother, Thor I. The god of mischief used Molto's people's envy of the surface world to get him to go on a rampage that eventually brought him to NYC, where he was eventually stopped by the thunder god and returned to his volcano. When he next appeared, it was as an ally to the Avengers trying to stop the attack of Jinku and his tribe.
First appearance (unnamed): JiM1 #97 Named: AV1 #5 Died: ?

Mondani An alien race who very much resemble humans except that their ears are slightly pointed, their skin is red, and they don't have visible pupils in their eyes. Because of their ability to resist diseases for extended periods, a child of their race was used by the Collector to house a deadly virus. When his ship was pulled apart by the Brethren, she escaped and somehow fled to a spaceport in the Byrulian System, where she was hunted down by the Silver Surfer and the Collection Agency, both working for the Collector.
First appearance: SS3 #61

Mongoose Mongoose-man with superhuman strength and speed created by the High Evolutionary. GA: New Men.
First appearance; ASM #283

Mongu What started out as a gladiator from outer space turned out to be a robotic battle suit filled with communist soldiers to lure the Hulk to his doom.
First appearance: IH1 #4

Monocle, the (deceased) Foreign agent, sporting a monocle, who came to NYC disguised as a member of the Foreign Press Corp. with his Neutrak Ray to stop the UN Summit meeting and "ignite the world in atomic chaos". He managed to infiltrate the meeting, but was stopped by the Fantastic Four and handed over to the authorities. Later, working for the Enclave, he hypnotizes the entire Security University campus using a ray from his monocle. When the plan goes wrong, uncovered by Spider-Man and the Human Torch II, he is killed by his unhappy employers while trying to escape.
First appearance: FF1 #95 Died: FF1 #207

Monolith The extraterrestrial black block that serves to prompt an individual to the next level of evolution and as an inter-dimensional gateway.
First appearance: 2001 #1

Monroe, Milton An NYC civil leader who was the candidate that the Organization (under the guise of the Reform Party) put up for the next Assemblyman. He disagreed strongly with the way that the Party, under Abner Jonas (alias the Organizer) was running his campaign; he didn't believe that blaming the crime wave created by the Ani-Men I on the current establishment was the way to go.
First appearance: DD1 #10

Monster, the (see: Larry Rambow) A glowing, humanoid creature that can absorb energy and convert is to powerful energy bolts, created by an accident during an experiment conducted by Dr. Phillip Rambow. Subdued by the Fantastic Four and cured by Dr. Rambow and Mr. Fantastic.
First appearance: FF1 #105 Origin and returned to human: FF1 #106

Monster Isle (Monster Island) Island in the Bermuda Traingle that is inhabited by all sorts of monstrous creatures, also one of the original openings to Mole Man's lair in Subterranea. Later, it becomes the base of operations for Adam Warlock and the Infinity Watch (WARI #7).
First appearance: FF1 #1

Monster Master (Toru Tarakato) A research scientist at Fujiyama Electronics that made a deal with the Red Chinese to use their Zoga device, but with the intent to drive out the American influence flooding his island. He wore a costume that resembles samurai armor, and was bested by Iron Man.
First appearance: IM1 #30

Monster of Lost Lagoon and Mate Quons who crash landed in their spacecraft in Lost Lagoon, and caused the navy to bring in the Fantastic Four to investigate when he began sinking ships mistaking them as a threat to his mate. They were allowed to leave the planet unmolested. They return when the Mate contracts an Earth virus and they must seek out Earth medical treatment.
First appearance: FF1 #97

Montana (Jackson W. Brice) A for-hire criminal who uses a lariat at his choice of weapon. GA: Enforcers.
First appearance: ASM1 #10

Montclair A sleepy suburban enclave in New Jersey which was home to Dorothy Walker (Hellcat's mom) and then to the Defenders when she inherited the house at the corner of Hautvale and Cedar St.. Across Cedar is Joe Poldark's Jerseygas Station, across Hautvale is the Food Acres grocery and the Chicken Okay fast food restaurant, around the corner is the Glenridge Hospital and Nursing School, and behind them, across Glenridge Ave. is the Erie-Lackawana Railroad. Inhabitants include: Dorothy Walker, Lesley Aul [first seen inhabitants], Dolly Donahue, {Hulk, Valkyrie III, Hellcat, Nighthawk I}, Mindy, Mr. Hudak [DEF #89],
First appearance (unnamed): DEF #88 Named and a map: DEF #89

Mon-Tee The annoyingly cheerful host of the show Super-Death Sweepstakes on the hedonistic planet ruled by emperor Goozot and under the Badoon thumb. Wearing a loud suit and an enormous bowtie, he not only hosts the show but he does the play by play as the contestants are being torn limb from limb by the different life threatening challenges. he was nearly splattered by the Hulk, who had survived his tussle with thousands of mechanical giant ants, but was rescued when Dr. Strange teleported him and his compatriot, Yondu, away.
First appearance: DEF #28

Montesi, Dean One of the Dean of sciences at ESU who had introduced the speaker for their alternate energy sources symposium, Dr. Bill Foster (aka Giant-Man II). When it was announced that Spider-Man was battling Meteor Man on campus, he couldn't hold the meeting together.
First appearance: SSM #41

Montessi Formula The spell cast by Doctor Strange to kill all vampires.
First conjured: DrST2 #62

Montgomery, Gen. Supreme commander of the Allied forces during WWII, the target of a plan dreamed up by the Red Skull where he would be assassinated by a brain-washed Captain America.
First appearance: ToS1 #67

Mon-Tog The Kree officer who took command of the Asteroid Web Station shortly before it was destroyed. His station was invaded by the Inhumans, Warkon, and his Demon Rebels when he fought Black Bolt with his Neuro-Lance but lost. In the end, the Station was destroyed killing Mon-Tog and his whole command.
First appearance: INH #9 (on cover only) First real appearance: INH #10

Monty One of the locals in the small mid western town that was plagued by giant vampire Hell-Bats who was gathered by Jake as a posse to lynch Ghost Rider IV whom he had seen falling from the sky (after battling said bats) and change to human. They were worried that hanging might no work, so they were prepared to shoot, burn or do whatever it took to put him down. Their plan was interrupted by the timely appearance of the local sheriff.
First appearance: GHR2 #48

Moon One of the Wild Ones who helped kidnap the Human Torch II and Medusa.
First appearance: FF1 #136

Moon-Boy In an alternate universe, a pre-historic youth, who is a member of the Small-folk in the Valley of Flame, and who, because of his superior intelligence, rescued a baby Devil Beast (tyrannosaurus) and raised it so that later, he and the Devil Dinosaur were the heroes of their little piece of pre-civilization. GA: Fallen Angels.
First appearance: DEV #1

Moondark An evil magician who had his soul stolen by dark beings and, using his Soul Orb he fashioned from material from this world and the next, he tried to steal the soul of Ghost Rider IV to ransom his back. He wears a turban and has his eyes blacked out with diamonds above and below the sockets and his powers allow him to cast powerful mystic bolts from his hand, create powerful mystic shackles, create the illusion that he is someone else, and to produce mystical animals (colored a grayish purple) which he can make do his bidding. His first attempt at GR's soul failed when, with the help of Spider-Man, his Orb was destroyed and he was consigned to the netherworld where they expected him to remain. Some months later, he returned with a new Orb and made another attempt at GR, but he failed a second time when the demon had help from the newly formed Phantom Rider III. With a wall of Hell-fire between hi and his crystal weapon, he was forced to retreat back to the nether world [GHR2 #56].
First appearance: MTU #91

Moondragon (Heather Douglas, form: Madame MacEvil) An incredibly powerful telepath, who, because of her pride and arrogance, has often fluctuated back and forth between the right and wrong side of the law. She has a bald head and a very skimpy costume, with boots and gloves and a high collared cape, all of the same color green. She started life as the daughter of a talented jazz musician in Reno, Nevada who was orphaned when her family was on vacation and accidentally encountered Thanos who was on a secret reconnaissance mission. The mad Titan destroyed the car to eliminate witnesses, killing both parents. She was rescued by Mentor, who had been following his son and brought back to Titan, where she was raised and trained to be a telepath by the Kabula sect of monks. After she had completed her training, having defeated the Titan Moondragon, her fiery temper and strong will soon had her abandon her adopted world and seek vengeance on the mad Titan. Her journey took her to Earth, where as Madam MacEvil, her egotistical personality caused her to clash with Iron Man (IM1 #54) forcing her to live the life of an outlaw for a time. Later, however, she rejoined the forces of good when she helped Captain Marvel I against the mad Titan, who had captured one of the Cosmic Cubes, but it wasn't until after the second foray against Thanos, when he was turned to stone, that she was invited to be a member of the Avengers. But it didn't last long until her pride forced her to leave the group and seek her fortune in space, where she eventually switched sides again and attempted to enslave the Ba-Bani with her telepathic gifts, figuring that her superior breeding gave her the right. The Avengers, with the help of Drax the Destroyer, attempted to wrest control of the planet from her, and in the process, she killed Drax by destroying his brain (AV1 #220). Realizing that she had just committed patricide, she lost all resolve to continue the conflict, and she was imprisoned for her actions. After she had convinced her captors that she had reformed, she was allowed tentative membership on the Defenders, but with a band on her head that limited her telepathic abilities. Later, after assisting in the war to stop Thanos who had captured the Infinity Gems and had wiped out half the universe, she was given the Mind Gem, when Adam Warlock, who ended up with the Infinity Gauntlet was ordered to divest himself of godhood, to protect it and keep it form future misuse. It granted her exponentially increased telepathic and telekinetic power and she reluctantly became a member of the Watch. REL: Daughter of Arthur (Drax) and Yvette Douglas. Cousin of Sundragon. GA: Avengers, Defenders, Infinity Watch.
First appearance: CM1 #?

Moon Knight (Marc Spector, 'Fist of Khonshu', 'Steven Grant', 'Jake Lockley') Costumed hero granted power by an ancient Egyptian god, uses various aliases, including the rich playboy and the cab driver. His costume is all white with a cape, and he uses various tools in his fight against crime and injustice, most notably his crescent boomerangs. He often works with the man named Frenchie (Jean-Paul DuChamp) who is not only his long time friend but his most trusted aide and pilot as well, his girl friend, Marlene Alraune, Bertram Crawley, and Ray and Rick Johnson, sons of a local diner owner. Early in his career, he was believed to be one of the bad guys even by some of the other costumed vigilantes. REL: Son of Elias Spector. Brother of Randall Spector.
First appearance: WW #32 Origin: MK1 #1

Moonstone II (see: Dr. Karla Sofen) Costumed criminal. GA: Masters of Evil II and IV.
First appearance: IH1 #228

Moore, Harris (see: Comet) REL: Husband of Helen Moore. Father of Crimebuster.
First appearance: NOV #21

Moore's A seedy bar located in a spaceport in the Byrulian System where a Mondani child, infected with a deadly virus, fled when she escaped the clutches of the Collector. The Elder of the Universe ends up sending both the Silver Surfer and the Collection Agency to retrieve the virus for him, and the latter ends up killing everyone there to secure the girl.
First appearance: SS3 #61

Moran One of the Maggia agents who hired Arcade to kill Captain Britain.
First appearance: MTU #65

Moran, Arnie One of the Vulture I's thugs whom he left to die when his HQ at the Taylor Building caught fire. he and his men were rescued by a reluctant Spider-Man and then left stuck to a light pole for the police.
First appearance: SSM #45

Morani An advanced warlike humanoid race from the planet Moran whose prodigious armada, under the command of Warlord Wrogg, had conquered all of Sector 14X except for the Watcher that resided there. The gigantic, green warriors where body armor and helmets with various sized horns attached, and they have discovered the secret of harnessing the energy from their own blood cells and can emit it in the form of a bio-electric shock. Members include: Warlord Wrogg, his Marshall and their armada.
First appearance: ToS1 #58

Morbius, Dr. Michael (The Living Vampire) A noted scientist, who, to cure his own terminal illness, accidentally created a condition in his system that mimics vampirism.
First appearance: ASM1 #102 Last appearance as a vampire: SSM #38

Mordius AIM scientist who creates an imitation of Iron Man's armor, battles the golden Avenger, and is killed when the generators of their base explode.
First appearance and death: IM1 #1

Mordred the Evil (Deceased) An evil 6th century mystic, caused the Death of Black Knight I and King Arthur. Assuming human form again in the 12th century an allying himself with Prince John, they imprisoned king Richard, causing the spirit of the Black Knight III (in limbo since his body was turned to stone) to be drawn to that time period. Between him and the Defenders (there to rescue Dane) and the untimely appearance of Prester John, they were defeated and properly punished [DEF #11]. REL: Son of Arthur. Nephew of Morgan Le Fey.
First appearance: MSH1 #17

Morduk Asgardian wise man, keeper of the Crimson Glove of Truth.
First appearance: JiM1 #118

Moreau, Phillip Leader of the Genoshan Mutant Rights movement. REL: son of Genegineer.
First appearance: UXM #236

Morg The huge, brutishly strong alien who was the court executioner on the planet that caused the final rift between Galactus and Nova II. When the Devourer consumed the planet, he rescued the defiant axe-wielding creature and imbued him with the power cosmic (a larger dose than his others) and created his newest Herald, with spiked armor, a rockier texture to his scaly hide, and scintilating with power. Morg proved to be just what Galactus wanted in a servant, unquestioningly loyal and ruthless and amoral in his duties choosing planets for his consumption. He soon fell out of favor with his master when he exponentially augmented his already great power by immersing himself in the Well of Life, and was the cause of the contention with all of the past Heralds (killing Nova II in the process). As punishment, he removed the power cosmic from him long enough for the others to believe that they had killed him, and even took the Air-Walker and Firelord as replacements while he rejuvenated his remains.
First appearance (unnamed): SS3 #69 Named and origin: SS3 #70

Morgan, Mr. A small time crime boss operating out of Harlem who had visions of grandeur which were often put down by the Falcon. Later, after the Kingpin and hammerhead left a power vacuum in the city, he made a bid for power and ended up clashing not only with Spider-Man, but with the Vulture I, who also wanted a slice of the pie [SSM #4].
first appearance: CAP1 #?

Morgan Le Fey (Morgana) An evil 6th century sorceress, queen of Gorre. REL: Half sister of Arthur. Sister of Morgause. Aunt of Mordred.
First appearance: SPW #2

Morgan, Pearson The president of the Grover Cleveland National Bank who some years ago denied a loan to Richard Grayson to buy medical supplies for the colony on Uranus, causing, what Crusader I believes, when he returns to Earth for revenge, the death of his father (Dr. Matthew Grayson) and the woman he loved.
First appearance: FF1 #165

Morgause (Deceased) 6th century British queen. REL: Sister of Morgan Le Fey. Half sister of Arthur. Mother of Mordred?.

Morlak, Maris Misguided nuclear physicist, one of the creators of Him, stationed at the Citadel of Science (Beehive). GA: Enclave.
First appearance: FF1 #66

Morlocks Outcast community of mutants who live in the subterranean Alley under NYC, nearly wiped out by the Marauders, originally led by Callisto and later by Storm, consisting of: Caliban [first seen member], Callisto, Masque, Plague [UXM #169], Annalee, Erg, Ape, Beautiful Dreamer, Tar Baby, Piper [PP #12], Sunder [UXM #169?], Healer, Leech [UXM #179], Skids [XFAC #7], Blow-hard, Scaleface [XFAC #11], Tommy [UXM #210], Cybelle [UXM #211],
First appearance: UXM #148 As a community: UXM #169

Morrie A pan handler in Grand Central Station who decides to return to Penn Station after witnessing a donnybrook between Spider-Man and the Vulture I.
First appearance: SSM #45

Morris, Rhonda An oceanographer who accidentally caught a Lemurian in her nets while searching for specimens, fell in love with the man, and gave birth to Laurie Morris. REL: Mother of Llyra. Wife of Llyron.
First appearance: SUB #32

Morse, Barbara 'Bobbi' (see: Huntress, Mockingbird)
First appearance: AST #6

Morvania A small European country that had been under the rule of the tyrant, Draxon, until it was freed by the Hulk. Other inhabitants include Rachel, Rebecca, and Isaac. The people mistook Hulk for the Golem, and in the end they killed Draxon. Her only seaport (through which the Hulk arrived as a stowaway) is Vastopol.
First appearance: IH1 #133

Moses, Amos (see: Xemnu the Titan) The disguise taken by the Titan posing as the mayor of Plucketville to lure the Defenders into a death trap. He even gave them a guided tour before having them beaten into submission by the towns people.
First appearance: DEF #11

Motherboard 49.7 The central conceptual unit of a massive computer of an unnamed crystalline planet. It represents itself as a blue skinned armored female (presumably of the race that originally built the complex) and, by it's outdated records, it still believes the Silver Surfer to be a Herald of Galactus. So, when the unsuspecting ex-herald came near the planet, 49.7 perceived him as a threat and began a series of automated attacks on him in the sake of self preservation. The Surfer entered the planet and confronted 49.7 face to screen, but he couldn't make the alien intelligence understand how things had changed with him since their records had been last updated. Literally almost cutting him to pieces with a broad beam laser weapon, the Surfer saves himself by damaging the file pertaining to him. Having no other recourse, the computer released the Surfer, but when last seen was repairing her system error.
First appearance: SS3 #24

Mother Night Super powered criminal, leader of the Sisters of Sin.
First appearance: CAP1 #?

Mother Superior (Sin) REL: Daughter of the Red Skull. GA: Sisters of Sin.
First appearance: CAP1 #290

Mount Avarice In the realm of Mephisto, a mountainous collection of all those who were more concerned with themselves than others and are forced to be tangled with one another in a writhing mass of self desires for all eternity as a testament to the baseness of human nature. Zarathos and Johnny Blaze were forced to cross this barrier when they were made to race through the netherworld. As Blaze crossed, he began to have self doubts and was nearly dragged down into the forever twining mass. Worse yet, the mount is able to move, and it pursues them toward the only portal of escape.
First appearance: GHR2 #76

Mount of Eternity The flat topped mountain within view of Asgard where the Beacon of the Brave is kept.
First appearance: TH1 An. #2

Ms. Destiny (see: Phoenix II) When Phoenix and the other members of the X-Men had been hypnotized by Mesmero and placed as members of the Mr. Mike's One-Ring Traveling Tent Show, she was positioned as a tough as nails aerialist who could rescue herself from death defying falls with her own powers. When first approached by Beast, who had hunted the team down using Cerebro, she had his booted by her handler, Slim Summers, but later, when she was confronted by a restored Wolverine, he pressed her into overcoming the mental block at the risk of life and limb.
First appearance: UXM #111

Ms. Hunter's Dance Academy The small dance studio on the second floor of the Comton Building in Salem Center that is owned and operated by one time famous dancer, Stevie Hunter. As a surprise to help Kitty Pryde relate to 'normal' kids her own age, Prof. X enrolled her here, and she was often escorted by Storm to her sessions. Later, many of the New Mutants attended classes here.
First appearance: UXM #139

Ms. Marvel (see: Carol Susan Jane Danvers, Binary) Carol Danvers is imbued with the powers of the original Captain Marvel, giving her the power of flight, super strength and near invulnerability, but she looses her powers and most of her memory with an extended confrontation with Rogue. REL: Daughter of Joseph and Marie Danvers. Sister of Steve and Joseph Danvers Jr.
First appearance: MsM #1

Ms. Marvel II (see: Sharon Ventura, ) Long time friend of the Thing whose strength was augmented by Power Brokers Inc before her wrestling career, joins the Fantastic Four with a new name. GA: Grapplers, Thunderiders, Fantastic Four.
First appearance: TNG #35

Muffin The small dog owned by Ray and Steve Coffin who ran afoul the Micronauts on their first visit through the Space Wall to Earth, and later helped them locate their missing compatriot, Bug.
First appearance (unnamed): MIC1 #2 Named: MIC1 #3

Muggins, Mrs. The cranky elderly landlady at Peter Parker's apartment building. REL: Wife of Barney Muggins.
First appearance: SSM #20?

Muggins, Barney The never present super at the apartment building of peter parker. REL: Husband of Mrs. Muggins.
First mention: SSM #20?

Muir Island A small remote island off the coast of Scotland which is the location of the Mutant Research Center run by Dr. Moira MacTaggert, adopted home of Wolfsbane. The X-Men first traveled here by hovercraft from Stornoway to check up on Jamie Madrox, who Moira had left in charge while she played housekeeper for the X-Men, only to have their vehicle pulled apart by a rejuvenated Magneto, who had been kept there as an infant after his run in with Alpha II. Later served as the home base for the team Excalibur.
First appearance (unnamed): UXM #104 Named: UXM #119

Mullins, Whitey Swell headed football player for Metro College. Foil for Johnny Storm and Wyatt Wingfoot in their short stint at the school.
First appearance: FF1 #50 Last appearance: FF1 #51

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox, see: Madrox) Mutant with the ability to project multiple copies of himself simply with and intake of kinetic energy. He at first led a life of crime, not really understanding his powers. But he later joined Moira MacTaggert at the Mutant Research Center on Muir Island and became her right hand [UXM #104]. GA: X-Factor
First appearance: ?

Mundon's A sleazy bar on one of the main thoroughfares of the planet, Calculex.
First appearance: SS3 #72

Municipal Animal Shelter An animal rescue and clinic facility in Dover, NH. operated by Dr. Corey and Dr. Jeff Colt that functions mostly on donations. And, even though they didn't have much n the way of money, it was the target of a bold daylight robbery by Tony, Merle, and Phil, henchmen of the small time crime boss Marty. They were thwarted by the unexpected appearance of Colt, who had recently developed a new super power as Anything Man.
First appearance: DEF #69

Munroe, David (Deceased) A photojournalist in NYC who, after marrying a real live African princess and was blessed with a daughter, was stationed in Cairo for his job. Six years later, during the Suez War, their house was bombed, and both parents were killed in the collapse, leaving their young daughter an orphan in the streets of a foreign city. REL: Father of Storm. Husband of N'Dare Munroe.
First appearance and death: UXM #102

Munroe, N'Dare (deceased) An African princess from Kenya who married an American photojournalist and with him had a single daughter before he was stationed in Cairo for his job. Six years later, during the Suez War, their house was bombed and the two were killed in the collapse, leaving their young daughter an orphan in the streets of a foreign city.
First appearance (hand only): UXM #96 First full appearance and death: UXM #102

Munson, Senator Kyle A US senator who stirs up trouble for the Infinity Watch when he declares that their presence on Monster Island as friends of Mole Man is a dire threat to national security. He causes the UN to send a military contingent to seize control over the island.
First appearance: WARI #14

Murder Module (Tripodal Observation Module or T.O.M.) A sophisticated piece of machinery developed by the US Army and placed in the hands of Gen. Ross which consists of a domed control compartment mounted on three thirty foot legs. It can essentially go anywhere, and is equipped with a force beam apparatus which "gives it the firepower of a whole division". the Leader steals it briefly and tries to unsuccessfully use it on the Hulk.
First appearance: IH1 #123

Murderworld Bizarre killing fields created by Arcade to play with his intended victims, often modeled after pinball games and employing robot replicas.
First appearance: MTU1 #66

Murdock, Grace (Deceased) REL: Mother of Daredevil. Wife of Jonathan Murdock.

Murdock, Jonathan 'Jack' (Deceased) ('Battling Jack Murdock') An over the hill and on the take boxer who was killed by the Fixer when he refused to take a dive. REL: Father of Daredevil. Husband of Grace Murdock.
First appearance: DD1 #1

Murdock, Michael 'Mike' ('Deceased') (Matt Murdock, see: Daredevil) A freewheeling persona created by Daredevil to cover for his secret ID when Spider-Man spill the beans. For a short time, Karen places her affections on Mike, until she comes to the realization that she really loves Matt. Foggy Nelson and Karen believe him to be the original Daredevil when another appears after his 'death'. DD faked his death when the Exterminator's Time Displacement Ray exploded.
First appearance: DD1 #25 'Died': DD1 #41

Murius Mother of Shatterstar who, when she and her husband tried to flee the Kree Homeworld, was killed by her own son. REL: Wife of Falzon.
First appearance and death: INH #4

Murray One of the Hellfire Club Mercenaries who was viciously and critically wounded by Wolverine during his one man siege of the prestigious club to free his captured team mates, the X-Men. He was one of those in the initial assault in the sub basement when Wolverine broke back into the prestigious club after being left for dead in the sewers.
First appearance: UXM #133

Murray A Metropolis police officer who, with his partner, had cornered a criminal, Creddick, on a rooftop, and when Spider-Man swung in for an assist, he was so shocked that he nearly fell to his death. He and his partner of course blames Spidey, and opened fire.
First appearance: MTE #28

Muspelheim Asgardian home of Fire Demons, once ruled by Surtur. Later lorded over by Harokin, liberated by Thor and the Warriors Three.
First appearance: JiM1 #99

Mutagen Gas A gaseous agent developed by Odd John which can mutate an insect on contact. It is delivered via an adapted insecticide sprayer which Odd John straps to his back.
First appearance: MIC1 #19

Mutant Any being with an altered 'x-factor' gene, those with super human abilities where known as homo superior, or the children of the Atom. The two sides of this race, those who wanted to co-exist with humans and those who felt they should be the ruling class on Earth, rallies mostly around the ideals of Prof. X (X-Men [first seen mutant team], New Mutants, X-Factor, Excalibur, X-Force, Generation X, X-Terminators, etc.) and Magneto and the Inner Circle (Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I [UXM #4] and II, Freedom Force, Hellions, Factor Three, etc.). They consist primarily of: Prof. X, Angel I, Cyclops, Beast, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Magneto [First seen mutants], Merlin II [JiM1 #96], Vanisher [UXM #2], Human Top [TtA1 #50], The Blob [UXM #3], Toad, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Mastermind [UXM #4], Namor (as mutant) [UXM #6], Unus [UXM #8], Juggernaut [UXM #12], Mentallo [ST1 #141], Banshee [UXM #28], Changeling [UXM #35], Lorna Dane, Mesmero [UXM #49], Living Pharaoh, Alex Summers (Havok) [UXM #54], Larry Trask [UXM #57], Overlord [SS1 #6], Dr. Carl Lykos (Sauron) [UXM #59], Sunfire [UXM #64], Alpha II [DEF #15], Wolverine [IH1 #180], Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Thunderbird I, Krakoa, Illyana Rasputin [GS UXM #1], Presence [DEF #52], Razorback [SSM #13], Peeper, Lifter, Burner, Shocker III, Slither [CAP1 AN #4], Nathan Beame [GHR2 #33], Willie Evans Jr. [FF1 #203], Northstar, Aurora [UXM #120], Proteus II/Mutant X [UXM #125], Tower [XFAC #2] Frenzy [XFAC #4, Stinger [XFAC #5], Harness, Piecemeal [NM AN #4], Manuel Gallante [NW #32] Gallante as Darkling [NW #33],
First appearance: UXM #1 First anti-mutant reactions: UXM #8

Mutant Detection Field In the Forever Yesterday alternate reality, it is the protective shield placed around Maqaman Island to protect the capital of the United States of Assyria and its tyrannical leader, Sphinx II, from the growing mutant rebellion. It reacts only to mutant genetics and acts as a powerful disruptor, powerful enough, even on its lowest setting to nearly kill Juggernaut. Sergeant Fury FY working with Reed Richards FY from the inside sneak the information concerning the Field to mutant agents on the outside, Cannonball FY, Marvel Man FY, and Firestar FY, who bring the intel back to their leader, Magneto FY. Using the information, a strike force, consisting of these three, Sebastian Shaw FY, Beast FY, and Juggernaut FY use the codes to temporarily deactivate the Field so they can find and destroy the Field Generator. Once accomplished, the army collected by this world's Magneto is able to enter New Memphis City to oppose the forces of Sphinx II.
First mention: NW #11 First appearance: NW #12

Mutant Energy Stimulator A device created by Magneto that bring to the surface any latent mutant powers. Mesmero used it on the kidnapped Lorna Dane to activate her magnetic powers.
First appearance: UXM #50

Mutant Force Mercenaries mutants with super human powers originally gathered together by Magneto, but later they were recruited by Mandrill to help him rob a federal repository (located at the Las Animus air base in Co.) of their gold [DEF #78]. They were eventually defeated by the combined might of the Defenders and the Wasp and Yellowjacket I, and they were turned over to the authorities, but the authorities already had something in mind for them. They were asked to help the military take on the Hulk, and failing that, they were asked to testify at a star chamber inquest that labeled the heroes as the criminals [DEF #87]. Team consisting of: Burner, Lifter, Peeper, Shocker II, Slither [first seen members].
First appearance: CAP1 An. #4

Mutant Liberation Force In the Forever Yesterday alternate reality, a group of rag tag super powered mutants who, under Magneto FY, are fighting to overthrow the tyrannical and oppressive empress, Sphinx II. Their base of operations is located in an unused bunker under a refinery in New Hebrides, and their greatest obstacle, other than the threat of the Avengers FY whose brutality toward mutants is well known, is the Mutant Detection Filed that surrounds the capital city of New Memphis on Maqaman Island. After years of plotting and planning, they finally have a way around the dreaded and deadly field; a mole on the inside, Reed Richards FY, has provided them with codes to temporarily deactivate the Field. While a team of hand chosen heroes under Sebastian Shaw FY assaults Maqaman through the unused Libredes Tunnel, Magneto gathers together an army of other heroes to assault the city once the Field is down. Despite the plan proceeding like clockwork, even the combined might of all the heroes is no match for the powerful empress, and it isn't until two members of the Force, Marvel Man FY and Firestar FY, join together with a member of the Avengers, Nova FY, and the son of the head of the Taylor Foundation-recently killed at her order-Dwayne Taylor, and force Sphinx II to view the truth of what she had been doing presented by Sayge FY that her reign is brought to an end. Members include FY versions of: Magneto, Cannonball, Marvel Man, Firestar, Wolverine, Cyclops, Polaris, Beast, Unus, Blob, Juggernaut, Rogue, Sebastian Shaw, White Queen, Forge, Sabretooth, Havok, Iceman, Angel.
First appearance: NW #11 Named: NW #12

Mutant Master (deceased) The evil leader of Factor Three, thought to be a mutant but turns out to be an alien from Sirius bent on taking over the Earth. Commits suicide rather than be captured when the rest of his crew turns against him with the X-Men. GA: Factor Three.
First appearance: UXM #37 Death: UXM #39

Mutant Research Center The cutting medical and research facility created and run by Dr. Moira MacTaggert which was the foremost authority on mutant kind. Located on remote Muir Island, it served not only as a sanctuary for some mutants such as Jaime Madrox and Wolfbane, but was also a holding facility for the other less benign, like Magneto (when he was reduced to infancy), Mutant X, and Dragonfly. The Center was first seen when the X-Men came out by hovercraft to check on Madrox, who had been left in charge while Moira played housekeeper to the X-Mansion for her old flame Charles Xavier, and found that Magneto had been restored by Eric the Red II and got their butts handed to them.
First appearance: UXM #104

Mutant X (deceased) (Joseph MacTaggert Jr., Kevin Proteus, see: Proteus II) The mutant name originally given to the son of Moira MacTaggert that has the ability to draw power from the life energy of people by inhabiting and burning out their bodies, and who was being held at the Mutant Research Center on Muir Island, heavily sedated for the good of all mankind, until Moira could discover a cure. When Magneto was restored to being an adult and tussled with the X-Men, the fight awoke the sedated being. It escaped and it's first victim was the boat rental man, Angus MacWhirter from Stornoway who had come out to the island to exact revenge on the X-Men for wrecking his hovercraft (even though restitution was made). It first encountered the X-Men after escaping the island, and he renamed himself and displayed his powers to alter perception (first thought to be the ability to alter reality). REL: Son of Moira and Joe MacTaggert, Sr.
First mention: UXM #104 First appearance (voice only): UXM #119 First actual appearance and death: UXM #128

Mutate A Deviant who has been intentionally genetically altered to make him a more fierce and effective warrior, not to be confused with the Rejects who were born excessively malformed. The first seen Mutates resembled winged dragons and were part of Kro's attack on NYC to foment distrust in the newly arrived Celestials.
First appearance: ETN #4

Mutates Not to be confused with the off branch of the Deviants, these creatures are a race that mutated from human beings in the post nuclear apocalyptic world of an alternate future Earth. After the second nuclear war, humans, because of the fallout, changed into these twisted creatures with oversized ears (looking like a mix between humans and Skrulls). who humbled the remains of the human race. Pluto, in his plans to get revenge on Thor I, used them as his army, but after the thunder god's defeat, he used them to invade the 20th century. Their original weaponry was scavenged from their devastated world, but the Lord of Hades provided them with bigger and better weapons. Later, Pluto employed the creatures in his plan to seize control of Olympus by eliminating the only two who could stop it, Hercules and Venus, by marrying them to Hypolyta and Ares, binding their hands by Olympian law from lifting a finger against their new spouses. The lord of the underworld sent armies of his minions to capture the pair on the UCLA campus, but ended up meeting with the newly formed team, the Champions. later they were brought right into Olympus to rub Zeus' nose in the whole matter, until his plan fell apart [CHM #1-3].
First appearance: TH1 #163

Mutaurus (deceased) The minotaur kept in one of Mogul's dungeons in Zanadu. Mogul's sister dropped Volstagg into his cell shortly before he located the Rod of Wondrous Wizard Power and destroyed the beast.
First appearance: TH1 #? Died: TH1 #?

Mutie The racial slur directed at the beings known as mutants.
First used: UXM #19

Muz-Kott, Maj One of the helmsmen of the Kree Primo-Pillager ship that encountered the Skrull emissary returning from Zenn-La just previous to the second Kree-Skrull War.
First appearance: SS3 #3

MX-2 A torpedo shaped underwater exploration vehicle designed by Dr. Walter Newell, and was being used by him to investigate a lifeless area on the bottom of the ocean near the Sargasso Sea.
First appearance: SUB #16

Myers, Mrs Wife of Boomerang, completely unaware of her husband's secret ID.
First appearance: TtA1 #81.

Myrmidon A large powerful android created by the same designer as the Overseer, employed to defend the mechanical tyrant. He is incredibly strong and is able to absorb sound and magnify it as a weapon. Iron Man I defeats him by altering his circuitry so that he attacks the Overseer and is destroyed.
First appearance: IM1 #29

Myrtle An elderly woman who, while driving with her husband, was passed by the Ghost Rider IV being pursued by the LA police and she mistook him for a Hell's Angel. REL: Wife of Henry.
First appearance: GHR2 #22

Mysterio (Quentin Beck, see: 'Dr. Ludwig Rinehart') An ex-special effects/stuntman who turned the use of his special abilities to a life of crime. Able to create fantastic illusions to aid him in his criminal work and to discredit Spider-Man. GA: Sinister Six.
First appearance (as a bogus alien): ASM1 #2 First actual appearance: ASM1 #13

Mystic Mountain The hidden mountain near the location of Asgard, also the site of Xandu (Zanadu). The mountain is composed entirely of purest crystal and rises from the crater of the Jinni Devil. It was used by Mogul as a fortress and a weapon to help him defeat the forces of Thor I. Later, another mountain fortress of the same name is used in Asgard by Ollerus the Unmerciful against the forces of Hela in a bid to usurp her position as goddess of the dead. When his pawns, the Defenders, realize they've been duped and start working for the other side, the fortress is destroyed by a very unhappy Hulk [DEF #68].
First appearance: TH1 #134

Mystic Mountain Tale Another adventure by Thor and The Warriors Three which first took them to Nostrand where they defeated Fafnir and later involved the conquering of Mogul who was attempting to overthrow Hogun's home land.
Began: TH1 #134

Mystique (Raven Darkholm) A blue skinned mutant with the ability to not only change her shape (including clothing) to exactly resemble any other person, male or female, of the same approximate size, but can also alter her voice patterns and scent to mimic another. She started her career as the Deputy Director of the Defense Advanced Research Planning Agency, where she first encountered Ms. Marvel I, then became the leader of the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, treating her followers more as family than as subordinates, and from there she graduated, with the help of Dr. Valerie Cooper, as the leader of the governmentally sanctioned team of mutants. Later, she is a love interest of Forge. REL: Mother of Nightcrawler. Foster mother of Rogue. Once believed to be the mother of Wolverine. GA: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants II, Freedom Force.
First appearance (as Raven): MsM #16 In her true form: MSM #18