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 The Silver Surfer confronts the Stranger on the cover of reprint title Fantasy Masterpieces #5 (Apr. 1980). Art by John Buscema. | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Uncanny X-Men #11 (May 1965) |
| Created by | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
| In-story information | |
| Abilities | Energy manipulation |
The Stranger is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Stranger first appeared in X-Men #11 (May 1965), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Publication history
The character is a cosmic entity and principally a scientist and surveyor of worlds, first visiting Earth out of curiosity. After an encounter in the title X-Men with the mutant team the entity departs, taking the supervillain Magneto and his servant Toad off-world for further study. The same title depicts Magnetos' escape and return to Earth, although the Stranger recaptures the villain.
The Stranger reappears in the title Tales To Astonish, becoming convinced that mankind is dangerous and sets out to destroy the Earth using the creature the Hulk. The character is dissuaded from this course of action by the Hulk's alter-ego, Bruce Banner. In the title the Silver Surfer, the Stranger again attempts to destroy the Earth, on this occasion using a powerful "Null-Life" bomb. After a battle with the Silver Surfer and learning that a human scientist sacrificed himself to defuse the bomb, the Stranger retreats.
In the title Fantastic Four the Stranger aids the superhero team against the entity the Overmind, and in Thor watches as the Thunder God battles the character's servant of the time, the Abomination. The title Avengers features a story in which the Toad impersonates the Stranger and battles the superhero team the Avengers. The true Stranger encounters the Kree warrior Captain Marvel in the title of the same name, and in Marvel Team-Up encounteers the hero Spider-Man when trying to obtain the Soul Gem from Adam Warlock.
The Stranger also appears in the self-titled Champions and aids the group to contain the reactivated Null-Life bomb left on Earth and in a Marvel Two-In-One Annual enlists the aid of the Thing and the Hulk to fight against the threat of the Olympian god Pluto. In the third volume of the Silver Surfer' the character encounters the Stranger again, and the entity the Living Tribunal alludes to an unrevealed higher purpose, by stating that on the empty fourth side of its skull "there could have been the face of the Stranger". The Stranger also joins the Avengers in battle against space villainess Nebula.
In the title Quasar, cosmic beings the Watchers approach the Stranger for aid in halting a lethal information virus, with the hero Quasar taking advantage of the distraction to free many of the specimens on the Stranger's "Labworld". In the limited series Starblast the Stranger is instrumental in merging the New Universe into the Marvel Universe. After appearances in Professor Xavier and the X-Men; Marvel Adventures; and Marvel Universe: The End the character features in the limited series Beyond!, posing as the entity the Beyonder. The Stranger captures several heroes and villains and forces them into battle for the purpose of study.
Powers and abilities
The Stranger has the ability to channel and manipulate cosmic energy for virtually any use, with feats including levitation; force field creation; size shifting and molecular manipulation of matter; light speed space travel; intangibility and energy projection and assembling a planet from segments of inhabited worlds from across the universe.
References
- X-Men #11 (May 1965)
- X-Men #18 (Dec. 1965)
- Tales To Astonish #89 (April 1967)
- Silver Surfer #5 (April 1969)
- Fantastic Four #113 - 116 (Aug. - Nov. 1971)
- Thor #178 (July 1970)
- Avengers #137 - 138 (July - Aug. 1975)
- Captain Marvel #42 (Jan. 1976)
- Marvel Team-Up #55 (March 1977)
- Champions #12 - 13 (March & May 1977)
- Marvel Two-In-One Annual #5 (Jan. 1980)
- Silver Surfer #27 - 31 (Sep. - Dec. 1989)
- Avengers #317 - 318 (May - June 1990)
- Quasar #14 - 16 (Sep. 1990 - Nov. 1990)
- Starblast #1 - 4 (Jan. 1994 - April 1994)
- Professor Xavier and the X-Men #15 (Jan. 1997)
- Marvel Adventures #5 (Aug. 1997)
- Marvel Universe: The End #4 - 6 (June - Aug. 2003):Marvel Universe: The End #1 - 6 (March - Aug. 2003)
- Beyond! #6 (Feb. 2007): Beyond #1 - 6 (Sep. 2006 - Feb. 2007)
- X-Men #11 (May 1965)
- Silver Surfer #5 (Aug. 1969)
- Beyond #1 - 6 (Sep. 2006 - Feb. 2007)
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