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FIRST APPEARANCE Fantastic Four #20 (November 1963)

Montesi, Victoria

REAL NAME Owen Roece

OCCUPATION Atomie plant worker turned criminal

BASE Brooklyn. New York; later a suburt) ol Derwer. Colorado

HEIGHT 5 ft 7 in WEIGHT 140 «» EYES Brown HAIR

SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Possossos psionic atoiity to

mampulate alt forma.

Lab assistant Owen Rcccc inadwrtci activatcd a machino that opened a “pinholc” into another dimension, cxposing him to radiation that scarrcd his face and endowed him with thc power to comrol matter. An embittered misfit. Rcccc uscd his powers to cvil ends, but was dcfcatcd by thc Fantastic Four. Uatu theWatchor imprisoncd Rcccc in another dimension, but lic eventually returned to Earth. During thc First "Sccrct War.” Rcccc tell in Iow with another supcrhuman.Volcana.

The two retired to livc pcaccfully together in a Denwr suburb. but Yolcana has sińce lcft him. PS

Molten Man

Moon Boy

FIRST APPEARANCE Devil Dinosaur #1 (April 1978)

REAL NAME Moon Boy

OCCUPAUON Adventurer BASE The Yafley of Fłame, located on an extra-dimensionai planet HEIGHT 6 ft 2 in WEIGHT 196lbs EYES Biue HAIR Black

SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Able to commjncate wtth Devil Dinosaur and possibły other unreveated powers.

Moon Boy grcw up in thcVallcy Elanie on an unnmncd cxtra-dimensional world, whcre tribcs of ape-like hunianoids cocxistcd with dinosaur*. His pcoplc cailcd thetnselves the Small-Folk. and struggled for survival against thc Hill-Folk and Killer-Folk. Whcn Moon Boy saved a tyrannosaurus rcx from thc Killcr-Folk, thc red-skinned dinosaur becamc his constant companion. Devii.

Dinosaur. and Moon Boy defended thc Small-Folk and bricfly scrvcd with thc Fallen Angcls team on Earth. beforc returning to their owij world through a space warp. DW

FIRST APPEARANCE Amazing Spider-Man *28 (Soplember 1966) REAL NAME Mark Raxton OCCUPATION Security guard for Osborn Industries BASE New York City

HEIGHT 6 ft 5 in WEIGHT 225 Ibs EYES Brown HAIR Gołd SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Superhuman streogth and duraWrty. Metallic optdormrs is capable of producing ftames and heat

The stcpbrothcr of Liz Allen. Mark Raxton worked as a laboratory assistant to Pr<ifessor Spfncer Smytiie, creator of thc Spider-Slaycr robots. Envious of bis employers famę. Raxton stole his latest crcation, a synthetic metallic liquid.Thc liquid spilled ovcr him and was absorbed into his system. 1 Ie bccame thc super-strong criminal Molten Man. and clashed with Spider-Ma\. Whcn Raxton s molten skin threatened to destroy him, Spider-Man sawd his life. Molten Man then bccame an ally of thc Wall-Crawlcr, and took a job as a security guard at thc company owned by his stepsister s husband. Harry Osborn. TB

FIRST APPEARANCE Darkhotd *1 (October 1992)

REAL NAME Vtctoria Montesi

OCCUPATION Occutt mvostigator BASE Romo. Italy HEIGHT 5 ft 11 in WEIGHT 130 Ibs EYES Brown HAIR Black SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Sho possesses the abiWy to sense when someooe bas accessed a page from the Darkhołd tome

For generations. thc Montesi linę bas guarded thc Darkhołd book ofblack magie to prewnt thc rise of thc Eldcrgod Chthon. Victori.i Montesi. daughter of Monsignor Vittorio Montesi, grcw up bclicving that ller family s involvcment with the Darkhołd wasjust superstition, but her skepticism vanished whcn pages from thc Darkhołd becamc scattercd around thc worki.To retriew thei».Victoria founded thc Darkhołd Rcdecmcrs with I.ouisc Hastings and Interpol agent Sam Buchanan. She later learned that Monsignor Montesi was not her real father; unablc to liave children. lic had uscd magie to ciisure an hcir. In rcality,Victoria was Chthon > daughter, and was carrying Chthon himself in a demonie pregnancy. Fortunately. Doctor Strangf preventcd Chthons birth into this world. ad

Moon Knight

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Moondragon

FIRST APPEARANCE iron Man Vol. 1 *54 (January 1973)

REAL NAME Heather Douglas

OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE Mobile

HEIGHT 6 ft 3 In WEIGHT 150*» EYES Bluo HAIR Nonę

SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Tefepathy. teiekinebc levitation of

objects: abtlrty to fire mental Wasts: trained martial artist.

Moondragon grcw up onTitan after Thanos killed her parents (though her father was later rcsurrectcd as Drax the Dimroyer). An evil entity. thc Dragon of i hi-Moon. tried to corrupt her. but she beliewd she lud resisted As Moondragon. she trawled to Earth. where her haughty attitudc won fcw friends. Moondragon joiucd the Defendi ks. but the influence of thc Dragon of thc Moon sonietimes turned her into a villain. She bccame a rcservist of the Avenglrs, and later safeguaidcd the Mind Gem as a meniber of thc InfinityWatch. ad

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