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FIRST APPEARANCE

Urcanny X-Men 9117 (January 1979)

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Amalii Farouk was the tirst evil

Using hes tetepathic powers. Amahl Farouk becarno nied Car cnminal undOfWrid.

mutant cver cncountered by Charles Xavior (ProfesSOR X). thc nun who would one day form the X-Men. Farouk was a crimelord In Cairo. Egypt, who uscd his mutant gifts oFtelepałby and telekin esis to carw out an undcrworld empire for himsclf Biit Xavier. belicving that mutants lud a duty to use thetr powers for go od rather tłian evil, opposed Farouk. and the rwo engaged in a psychic duel.The battle ended with Farouk being defeated and Im human body slain. Des pite thc loss of his physical form. Farouk survived on thc astral piane and he bccame the Shadow King, a malcvo1ent possessing spirit who was drawn to pain and sufFcring. As wcll as having powers of tclepathy and telekinesis, the Shadow King is Hable to inhabit the psychcs of others. bending them to lus will and using tliem as lus puppets. A constam danger to thc X-Men. whom he h.nes because oftheir .ismh lation witii \avier. the Shadow King has been defeated. but never destroyed. and he remains an oniniprcscnt threat to the realization of Xaviers dream ot peaceful coexistence between mutants and

FIRST APPEARANCE wJowmałtors »1 (October 19691 LINEUP Sojm Eaki (ctaceosed). Yunko Ezak.. Ph*p Richards SPECIAL POWERS/ABIUTIES Uasters of r*n|itsu

Domonstrating his martrt arts skih, Philip Rtchards wu*te a katana swurd and kyokotf shoge knrfo.

The Shadow King was tho frst mutant oncoontofed by Professor Xas he wandered

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The original Shadowmasters werc expert practitioners of the martial art of ninjitsu, who protectcd the Iga Province of Japan for centuries. Following the end ofWorld War II. US Army Captain James Richards bccatne triends with Shigeru Ezaki.one of the last Shadowmasters. Together they opposed renegade Japancse soldiers. F.zaki trained his children Sojin andYuriko and Richards* son Phillip in martial arts.The renegades became the Sunrisc Socicty. who killcd James Richards and sccmingly killcd Shigeru F.zaki. Since chen, Richards* son and Ezaki s children. as the ncw Shadowmasters. have opposed the Socicty. now renamed thc F.ternal Sun. PS

Shalla Bal

FIRST APPEARANCE S*h*r Suder #1 (August 1968)

REAL NAME Shana-Bal

OCCUPATION Empross Ol the planet Ztxv i i BASE Zenn La HEIGMT 5 ft 9 in WEIGHT :25lbs EYES Bhj* HA1R B . -SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Born with no special powers. Shaiia-Bal was lat er invosted with power to rostoro Mo to the soii ot Zenn-La aft er it was devastated by Gatactus.

Shalla-Bal is a member of an alien race, the Zenn-Lavians.

She was separated from her lover, Norrin R.idd, after he madę a bargain with thc world-cater Gai a<: i us, who had threatened to destroy Zcnn-La. Radd ofFcrcd to become the Silvek Surfer and servc Galactus iflie would spare Zcnn-I.a. and Galactus agreed. l or years the Silver Surfer tnwelcd the universc, scouting out uninhabited plancts for Galactus to consume. When the Surfer eventually decided to abandon Galactus and rcmain on F.arth. Shalla-Bal became caught up in his struggle with Mepiiisto.

Then Galactus returned to consume Zenn-La in revengc for the Surfer s betrayal. After thc Surfer endowed Shalla-Bal with the power to restorc life to Zenn-La, she was declarcd Empross. and so she remains to tliis day. A D

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