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Gargoyle

FACTRLE REAL NAME Isaac Chnstians OCCUPATION Carotaker BASE

The estate of Daimon Helistrom

Gargoyle

HEIGHT 5 ft 10 m WEIGHT 204 «» EYES Red HAIR Nooe

FIRST APPEARANCE

Defondors #94 (Apnl 1981)

FIRST APPEARANCE Asion*hing Tale* »2 (Ociober 1970) REAL NAME Unr©v«ax»a OCCUPATION Sa*x. wandew. 900 BASE The Savage land HEIGHT fi WEIGHT 355 IM EYES uh human) Bro*n .m Garotoi YpUow HAIR (aa human) Brown, (as C»a'okki V.tiua^y nona SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES *»> f^o^ct t - <jhi and corKussive lorce Ir om ho eyos Posseswm v)rtua) unmortaMy.

Isaac Chnssorw nvxto a <łeor w*n «cmfl! forcoa u«H saw na 90J casi *no tno bod* ot a demon.

Garokk

Posmhssos tr» ateroosoo sirangtn and mysie duraofity of cno of tho demon raca 11© eon ułso lesnat* fly and prołoct borts of oklntcb lorce ?rom Na łwnds; laathery stor o bułetorool; cTYkjr/Ous 10 Ofeott*

In order to securc economic prosperity for his impovcrished town, elderiy Isaac Ghristum madc a pact with a demonie group callcd the Six-hngered Hand. Hc aliowed his cssence to be transplanted mto the body of a demon, while the demon* mind wouid reside within his own human body.

Thtt demon had tbrmerly bcen trapped in stonc form as a gargoyle, as scen on ancicnt churchcs tłiroughout Europę.

Dcspite his grotesque appcarancc. the Gargoyle was not truły evil, and atter the destruction of his human body, he rebelled against the Six-l ingercd Hand and came to l>c atłiliated with the DtiFENDERs. Whcn that team disbanded. Christians tagged along with Hlli.i At and her hushand Daimon Helistrom. ewntualh bcconung the caretakcr of Helistrom s estate.

The Gargoyle should not be confused with a siuularly-named Sovict agent (re.il name: Yuri Topolo* ) w ho attemptcil to capture the Huik on the eve of the latter \ creation and was the father of the Gufmlin. TB

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Gateway

Sonie time in the ISth eentury.a Bmish sailor from HMS Dr_tiLr bec.une stranded 111 the S.isage I and. Immersion iii a pool 01 inystenous lu|iud rendered the sailor virtuallv immortal. He wandered the World for centuries. and Ins body took on a gray. rock-like appearam e. as if he were a “petrilied man.”

In recent limes, the Petrilied Man rcturnesl to the Sasage I and, w herc he was worslnpped by the Sun Pcople as the incarnation of their goił Garokk. As Garokk he regards Inmsclfas the guardian ofthe S.wage I and. although lns insanity and **ofTensive capability" makes Inni .1 thoroughly impredu table nienace. PS

FIRST APPEARANCE ■ ir.r.wy X >,w Vol 1 *227 (March ’388l

REAL NAME Onun-eateO

OCCUPATION N • -    BASE A ,

HEIGHT 4 nem WEIGHT 80 ibs EYES IVown HAIR Gray-btack

SPECIAL POWERS/ABIUTIES AD*ty to c*»- 1«#©portatK>' !'anvVnen»»on«l da>rvoyan!

I iu* IllYMerinils. Mietli G.IICW.IN |s ,11) Austr^li.iii abonginc wuh tłu* inut.mt ability to opon toleport.uion doorways. The otitlaw Ki avi iis forced Gateway to assist them in their crimes by threateinng to destroy .111 abongme sacred sito. The X-Mi s liter evicted the Rcavcrs.oper.uing front their hcadquartcrs lor a timc. .uui Gateway bccanic an unoilici.il inciiiber. Gateway has a speeial connection to the Gfneration X member M. and is an anccstor ot* the X-Man t-allcd Bishop. dw