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Mentallo

FIRST APPEARANCE Strange Tales *141 (February 1966)

REALNAME Maron Fktfnm

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EPHISTO

REAL NAME

Urvevealed

OCCUPATION ProlessK)oal cnnuna BASE MoM®

HEIGHT 5 fl 10 in WEIGHT 175 Ib). EYES Brown HAIR Brown SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Possesses    pow«r». Can

read the thoughts ot anyooe within five m*es. locate a particular bram panem and project his own thooghts mto the minds ot others.

Marvin Flunim was bom with telcpathic powcrs. I Ic went to work for SHIELD where his powcrs became morę fully devcloped. I loping to take control of SHIELD. Fhimm stole a battle suit and tclepathic-cnhancing equipment and took the name Mentallo. Tearaing with the Fixer (later known as Techno). Mentallo tried to take over SHIELD hcadquartcrs but the two were capturcd.Thcy escaped and joined iIYI )RA.

Whilc battling the Micronauts, Mentallo* mind was overloaded. Later, when Proi kssor X trted to help him, the two battled on a psychic piane and Mentallo was overpowered by the Professor. MT

Mcphisto is an extradnnensional demon of immense power. He is not the Biblical Satan.and lns realni is not the Heli ofScripture. Howeeer, Mephisto appears to Eartlimeu in tłie traditional form of the I)evil. and often poses as Satan. By one account, Mcphisto, hke otlier rulers of heli dimensions, originated ages ago as a portion of a mass of dark mystu al energy. Mephisto coniimialły schemes to make baigains with mortals and gods to gain possession of their souls, whkh hc conlines to his nrthefWorld Mephisto espeeialh* covet> the souls of heroes for their purity and has repcatedly sought to corrupt and cnsłave the soul of the noble Silvlr Simn ii Mephisto has also tontenJed with Thor. DOCTOR Stranof .

Daredkvil, the Fant astic: FouR.and many others. !t was Mephisto. posing as Saun, who bonded the demon ■Tar athos to John u v Blaze, turning htm into the Chtosi Rii»LR. Mephisto ha* a son, Blackbeart, and daughtei. Mepiu.su. PS

MopNsio can nu»ęjłca/fy aogment h slrength to an immeasurable exter

OCCUPATION

Ruter of an extradimensional realm of the óead BASE

A heli dimension

HEIGHT 6 ft 6 m WEIGHT 310 Ibs EYES Vanab<e. usualfy white with no vtsrbie pupds or mses HAIR Variable. usualfy black

FIRST APPEARANCE

The Sitver Surfer Vol. 1 #3 (December 1968)

Mephisto

Mercado, Joy

FIRST APPEARANCE Moon Knight Vol. 1 *33 (September 1983)

REALNAME Joy Mercado

OCCUPATION Reporter BASE New York City

HEIGHT 5 ft 10 in WEIGHT 135 Ibs EYES Blue HAIR Blonde

SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Normal human strength for a

woman ot ber build who exercłses regularty; has some skill al

unarmed combat; accomplabed wntor and inieroewer

Joy Mercado. formerly a top writer for ;YOH’ magazinc, is among the elite invcstigative reporting stalT of the Ddify Bugle. She was partnered with stafT photographcr Peter Parker on a number of stories. including an assignment to F.ngland and Northern Ireland, where Spidhk-Man prcvented the assassination of the British prime minister. Joy seemed suspicious of Peters relationship with Spidcr-Man and, at one time. accuscd Peter of using Spider-Man to further his career.

Joy is an incorrigible flirt, but ber relationship with Peter never progressed to anything morę than friendship. DW

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