THE ROY THOMAS MARVEL COMICS CHARACTERS, CONCEPTS AND CREATIONS PART 1

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THE ROY THOMAS 
MARVEL COMICS 

CHARACTERS, CONCEPTS AND CREATIONS
PART 1

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Absorbo-Belt

Captain America #217 (1978)

co-created with Don Glut and Sal Buscema 

Achilles of Phthia

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979)

co-created with John Buscema 

(based on character from the Iliad)

 

Adam II

What If #4 (1977)

co-created with Frank Robbins

Adamantium

Avengers #66 (1969)

co-created with Barry Windsor-Smith

I created and named "Adamantium" because I needed a good name for the most powerful, harm proof metal possible in that AVENGERS issue.  I chose the name because of the use of the adjective "adamantine" which I remembered from a book I had (and still have) collecting the plays of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus...  it's used on the first page or so of Richmond Lattimore's translation (late 50s or early 60s) of "Prometheus Bound."  Incidentally, from that same page(s) and play I took the names Kratos and Bia (Force and Might, in some translations), which are the names of the two gods/whatever that, in Zeus' name, chain Prometheus to a mountaintop, and I used that for characters that first appeared in AVENGERS #50 (you can look for them in this database).  I usually have felt that my names for things were inferior to the ones Stan Lee and/or Jack Kirby came up with, but I do think "Adamantium" is even better than "Vibranium"... though both are fine. 

Nicole Adams

Avengers #77 (1970)

co-created with John Buscema


Agent Axis

Hiroyuki Kanegawa
Aldo Malvagio
Berthold Volker

Invaders Annual #1 (1977)

co-created with Frank Robbins

I used the name "Agent Axis" because it was mentioned by Captain America in TALES OF SUSPENSE #82 (1966).  While Stan Lee wrote that dialogue, I suspect that artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby had accidentally written it in his margin notes and Stan just took it from there. Years later, when I was looking for a villain to face THE INVADERS, I remembered that "Agent Axis" reference in TOS #82 and decided to create a new character with that name, since it had been previously established in the Marvel Universe.  I don't know that I'd ever even seen the original story with Agent Axis' first appearance in BOY COMMANDOS #1 (1941) from National (DC Comics) by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, so I decided to make up a triple-composite bad-guy who was composed of one part German Nazi, one part Italian Fascist, and one part Imperial Japanese... a new character with an old name.

Agents of Atlas (Team)

3D Man (Charles "Chuck" Chandler)*
Gorilla-Man (Ken Hale)**
Human Robot (M-11)***
Marvel Boy (Robert Grayson)****
Venus*****

*Marvel Premiere #35 (1977)

co-created with Jim Craig

With the 1940s stuff like THE INVADERS going, I wanted to do a comic set in the late 1950s, so I made up 3-D Man, even though 3-D was really a phenomenon of 1953 to 1955 or so at the latest.  I gave him a costume based on the original Daredevil of Lev Gleason comics, only colored red and green instead of red and blue, and with a chest symbol.  Young Canadian artist Jim Craig drew, which makes him co-creator.  I named him Chuck Chandler, which was the real name of another Lev Gleason character, Crimebuster... and I borrowed and altered a couple of elements of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's one-issue CAPTAIN 3-D as well.  I had hoped it could be a real 3-D comic, but that was not to be.

**character created by Robert Q. Sale 

***character created by Stan Lee and John Romita

****character created by Stan Lee and Russ Heath (see "Crusader" down below under "C")

*****character created by Stan Lee and Ken Bald 

What If #9 (1978)
co-created with Don Glut and Alan Kupperberg
(Team first appearance) 

Alecto 
(Furies)

Avengers #50 (1968)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Greek mythology)

Alkhema 
(War Toy)

Avengers West Coast #90 (1993)

co-created with Dann Thomas and David Ross

Paul Allen

Astonishing Tales #8 (1971)

co-created with Gary Friedrich and Herb Trimpe

Alpha Centaurians (Race)

Sub-Mariner #17 (1969)

co-created with John Buscema

Andro

Astonishing Tales #1 (1970) 

co-created with Wally Wood

Andrones

Fantastic Four #161 (1975)

co-created with Rich Buckler

 

Ani-Mutants (Team)

Equius**

Karnivore***

Simbus*

Tantaro*

Urson-Wellz*

Unnamed Ani-Mutants**

*Mighty Thor #472 (1994)

 co-created with M.C. Wyman

**Mighty Thor #475 (1994)

 co-created with M.C. Wyman

(Team first appearance)

***character originally named "Man-Beast" created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby 
 

Antigone

The Ultron Imperative #1 (2001)

co-created with Klaus Janson

Ape God
(Ghekre)

Avengers #62 (1969) 

co-created with John Buscema (as a statue)
(first full appearance in BLACK PANTHER #18 (2006) created by Reginald Hudlin, Scot Eaton and Kaare Andrews)

Aragorn (Pegasus)

Avengers #48 (1968) 

co-created with George Tuska

Arges

Avengers Annual #23 (1994)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Greek mythology)


Argus the One-Eye

Mighty Thor #289 (1979)

co-created with Keith Pollard
(based on Greek mythology)

Arkon the Magnificent

Avengers #75 (1970) 

co-created with John Buscema

When I introduced Arkon the Magnificent in the pages of the Avengers, I wanted John to give him the visuals of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars crossed with Conan.

Diane Arliss 

Sub-Mariner #3 (1968) 

co-created with John Buscema

Asmodeus
(Charles Benton)

Dr. Strange #169 (1968) 

co-created with Dan Adkins

 Asti the All-Seeing

Strange Tales #144 (1966) 

co-created with Steve Ditko 


A.U.N.T.I.E.
(Automatic-Neuro-Robot in charge of Tidying-Up with Increased Efficiency)

Fantastic Four #119 (1972)

co-created with John Buscema

Avengers Quinjet

Avengers #61 (1969)

co-created with John Buscema

While writing fairly early issues of THE AVENGERS, it occurred to me that the group needed a more distinctive type of aircraft.  There was a thing called the twinjet, so I made up the Quinjet, which had five rockets.

Avius

Fantastic Four #129 (1972)

co-created with John Buscema

Avlekete and Ezili (Twins)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990) 

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood
(based on West African mythology) 


Bova Ayrshire

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (1974)

co-created with Rich Buckler 


B

Martine Bancroft

Amazing Spider-Man #102 (1971)

co-created with Gil Kane

Morbius' lady friend, Martine Bancroft was named after a combination of Ann Bancroft and, probably, Martine Beswich, the B-movie horror actor.  By coincidence, in 1977 I met Martine Beswick through Russ Jones, who stayed at my apartment in L.A. for several months right before I met my second wife Dann. 

Banshee

(Sean Cassidy) 

X-Men #28 (1967)

co-created with Werner Roth

Banshee was the first super-type I dreamed up for Marvel, although Stan Lee wouldn't let the character be a woman, as he should have been.

Baron Blood 

(John Falsworth)

Invaders #7 (1976)

co-created with Frank Robbins

Baron Blood II 

(Victor Strange)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #10 (1989)

co-created with Jackson Guice

Turk Barrett

Daredevil #69 (1970)

co-created with Gene Colan

Battle-Axis (Team)

Dr. Death/Dr. Nemesis (James Nicola Bradley)****

Human Meteor (Duke O'Dowd)****

Golem (Jacob Goldstein)**

Sky Shark (Elias Schleigal)*  

 Spider-Queen (Shannon Kane)****

Strong Man (Percy van Norton)****

Vision (Aarkus)***

Volton (Guy Newton)****

*Marvel-Two-In-One Annual #1 (1976) 

co-created with Sal Buscema

**Invaders #12 (1977) 

co-created with Frank Robbins

The "Jacob Goldstien" Golem is a different character named Golem that appeared in THE INCREDIBLE HULK #134 (that version is listed down below under "Golem").  I eventually brought this Golem into THE INVADERS.  I was aware at that time that one of my favorite artists, Joe Kubert, had drawn a WWII Golem story in 1944, which was the immediate influence on that storyline.  

***character created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

****Invaders #1 (1993)

public domain character

co-created with Dave Hoover

(Team first appearance)

I originally wanted to say that several of Timely's minor heroes had "gone bad" and joined the Axis, since some people claimed that all super-heroes were fascists anyway.  Marvel nixed that idea, and I understand their point... so I grabbed the Human Meteor from Harvey's old CHAMP/CHAMPION COMICS, Spider-Queen from Fox's EAGLE COMICS created by Elsa Lesau, Strong Man from Tem/Holyoke's CRASH COMICS, Volton from Holyoke's CAT-MAN COMICS created by Irwin Hasen, and changed Ace's Dr. Nemesis from LIGHTNING COMICS & SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS to Dr. Death (I think there was already a Dr. Nemesis somewhere, maybe even at Marvel).

 

 Bia

Avengers #50 (1968)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on figure from Aeschylus' Greek tragedy PROMETHEUS BOUND)

Black Knight 

(Dane Whitman)

Avengers #47 (1967)

co-created as "Dane Whitman" with John Buscema
(becomes "Black Knight" in AVENGERS #48 (1968) costume co-created with John Verpoorten and George Tuska)

The Black Knight was a combination, visually, of the Black Knight that Stan Lee and Joe Maneely made up in the mid-1950s, with the concept Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done as a villain of that name, complete with winged horse, in THE AVENGERS.  There was also a bit of an homage in there to a DC hero I'd liked in the 1940s, the Shining Knight.  I shouldn't have named his horse Aragorn, though.  I wasn't even that great an admirer of THE LORD OF THE RINGS.  John Buscema, was scheduled to be the artist of the story that introduced Dane Whitman dressed in the Black Knight costume into THE AVENGERS, but that wound up being a guest stint by George Tuska when Stan Lee took John off the book for one issue to do something else.  It was John Verpoorten and I that designed the costume.

Blackie

Captain Marvel #18 (1969)

co-created with Gil Kane and John Buscema

Bloodwraith
(Sean Dolan)

Black Knight #2 (1990)

co-created as "Sean Dolan" with Dann Thomas and Tony DeZuniga
(revamped as "Bloodwraith" in AVENGERS ANNUAL #22 (1993) created by Glen Herdling and Mike Gustovich)

Moria Brandon

Avengers West Coast #100 (1993)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Dan Hudson

Blue Bullet 

(Johann Goldstein)

Invaders #17 (1976)

co-created with Frank Robbins

Bogatyri (Team)

Mikula Golubey 

Comrade Miasnikov

 Morning Star (Marya Meshkov/Dennista Zvezda)

Svyatogar (Sasha Pokryshkin) 

Dr. Volkh
Unnamed members

Avengers West Coast #87 (1992)

co-created with Dann Thomas and David Ross

Boute-Feu and the Frères de la Côte (Team)

Michel le Basque

Boute-Feu

Monbars l'Exterminateur

Jean David Nau (aka Francois L'Ollonais)

Vent-en-Panne

 

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood

 

Mordecai P. Boggs

Captain Marvel #18 (1969)

co-created with Gil Kane and John Buscema

Brain-Child 

(Arnold Sutton)

 Avengers #86 (1971)

co-created with Len Wein and Sal Buscema 

Brain Drain 

(Werner Schmidt)

Invaders #2 (1975)

co-created with Frank Robbins 

  

 Ellen Brandt

Savage Tales #1 (1971)

co-created with Gerry Conway and Dwight "Gray" Morrow

Yuri Brevlov

Incredible Hulk #106 (1968) 

co-created with Archie Goodwin, Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe

Brother Brimstone

(Ross Archer)

Daredevil #65 (1970)

co-created with Gene Colan 

Benjamin Brooks

Ghost Rider #1 (1967)

co-created with Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers

Natalie Brooks

Ghost Rider #1 (1967)

co-created with Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers

Brother Voodoo 

(Jericho Drumm)

Strange Tales #169 (1973)

co-created with Stan Lee, Len Wein, John Romita and Gene Colan

Stan Lee wanted to put a new hero in a revival of the title STRANGE TALES.  I had made up a Phantom-looking hero called Dr. Voodoo when I was 11 or 12, so I suggested just a name to Stan:  Dr. Voodoo.  He thought about it a second and said, after a pause:  "Brother Voodoo."  I knew what he meant, so I went and got Len Wein to turn that into a character.  Len did pretty much all the heavy lifting on that one, looking up voodoo and coming up with the twin's idea.  When he suggested that to me, I immediately thought of the old Captain Triumph character in Quality's 1940s comics (a man who was helped by his dead twin), and mentioned that to Len.  He took it from there, and Gene Colan was brought in to draw... though John Romita designed the look of the character, making him a co-creator.

Brother Visara

Eternals: The Herod Factor #1 (1991)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Mark Texeria 

Brute 

(Counter-Earth Reed Richards)

Marvel Premiere #2 (1972)

co-created as "Counter-Earth Reed Richards" with Gil Kane

(becomes "Brute" in WARLOCK #6 (1973) co-created with Ron Goulart, Mike Friedrich and Rob Brown) 

L.L. Burbank

Mighty Thor #280 (1979)

co-created with Don Thompson, Maggie Thompson and Wayne Boring

Joey Burnett

Mighty Thor #273 (1978)

co-created with John Buscema

Carrie Marie Butler

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #19 (1990)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Gene Colan

C

Luke Cage 

(Power Man)

Hero for Hire #1 (1972)

co-created with Stan Lee, Archie Goodwin, George Tuska and John Romita

In 1972 Stan Lee decided it was time Marvel had an entire comic devoted to an African-American hero, so he conferred with me and (perhaps at the same time, or perhaps by a second meeting) Archie Goodwin to create such a hero.  He wanted the character to be an escaped, naturally innocent convict who tried to make super-heroing pay (unusual for the day) and who wore a rather untypical super-hero costume.  John Romita basically designed the costume, with a bit of kibitzing from me, but I don't recall any specific thing that I may have suggested be part of the costume.  My own contributions were the name "Cage" (which I realized later I'd seen in a list of potential character names Gil Kane had shown me some time before). The name "Hero for Hire" and the particular levels of power--bulletproof, but bullets would raise welts on his skin... inspired by Philip Wylie's hero Hugo Danner in his novel GLADIATOR.  I proposed using the "Power Man" name for Luke Cage from the villain in AVENGERS #21 (1965) created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Don Heck.

Captain Cybor

Incredible Hulk #137 (1971)

co-created with Gerry Conway and Herb Trimpe

 Captain Tyger

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood

Captain Ultra 

(Griffen Gogol)

Fantastic Four #177 (1976)

co-created with Mike Friedrich and George Perez

Captain Ultra was a parody character that George Perez and I made up for FF #177, in our own spoof of DC's auditions for the Legion of Super-Heroes (it had that quasi-legion of rejected heroes, remember?).  We deliberately gave him what I've always called a "church-window" costume... one that has a zillion design pieces, and nearly as many colors, with nothing to really focus the eye.  But of course, since he was a virtual Superman, we had to give him a "Kryptonite," so we made it fire, as a sort of homage to the Martian Manhunter.  The joke was that the Frightful Four, if they had let him join, would have been going up against the Fantastic Four--with its Human Torch--aided by a man who passed out in the presence of any kind of flame.

Astrella Carpenter

Warlock #1 (1972) 

co-created with Gil Kane 

David Carter

Marvel Premiere #1 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane

Nathan Carter

Marvel Premiere #2 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane


Lonnie Carver

Daredevil #69 (1970)

co-created with Gene Colan

Casiolena

Avengers #83 (1970) 

co-created with John Buscema

Cassandra of Troy

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979) 

co-created with John Buscema
 (based on character from the Iliad)

Catherwood

Black Knight #1 (1990) 

co-created with Dann Thomas and Tony DeZuniga 

Cathexis-Ray

Incredible Hulk #141 (1971) 

co-created with Herb Trimpe

 

Centaurion

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #54 (1993)
co-created with Frank Lopez

Cerexo

Incredible Hulk #137 (1971)

co-created with Gerry Conway and Herb Trimpe

Chanda

Fantastic Four Unlimited #1 (1993) 

co-created with Dave Hoover 

Harold "Hal" Chandler

 Marvel Premiere #35 (1977)

co-created with Jim Craig

Margaret "Peggy" Chandler

 Marvel Premiere #35 (1977)

co-created with Jim Craig

Changeling 

(Kevin Sydney)

X-Men #35 (1967)

co-created with Werner Roth

Marvel kinda "robbed" me with Morph who died on a rescue mission in the X-Men cartoon from the 1990s, I guess.  I believe it was Neal Adam's idea in X-MEN #60 (1969) that the Professor X who died was actually the Changeling... he established this subtly at the time, he said, by showing a returned/rescue group of mutants captured by the Sentinels, and the only one captured who wasn't shown rescued was the Changeling.  That sounded good to me as de facto editor, so I let it stand when I did the dialogue. 

Cobalt Man 

(Ralph Roberts)

X-Men #31 (1967)

co-created with Werner Roth

Code: Gray (Team)

Tom Jeffers

Trudy Knockenlocker

Charlie Pike

Woodrow Truesmith

Thunderstrike #16 (1995)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Grant Mieham 

Cold Warrior
(Eric Sinkovitz)

Marvel Premiere #37 (1977) 

co-created with Jim Craig

 Colonel Klaw

(Fritz Klaue)

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #39 (1967)

co-created with Dick Ayers

Colonel Wai Ling

Avengers #41 (1967)

co-created with John Buscema 

Colossus

Incredible Hulk #145 (1971)

co-created with Len Wein and Herb Trimpe

Commander Kraken

Sub-Mariner #27 (1970)

co-created with Sal Buscema

 Counter-Earth (Planet)

Marvel Premiere #1 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane

 

H. Warren Craddock

Avengers #92 (1971)

co-created with Sal Buscema

 Crime-Wave 

(Mason Hollis)

Daredevil #59 (1969)

co-created with Gene Colan

(first mentioned in DAREDEVIL #57 (1969))

Crusader

(Thelius aka Robert Grayson)

Fantastic Four #164 (1975)

 co-created with George Perez

(rechristened character named "Marvel Boy," first appeared in MARVEL BOY #1 (1950) created by Martin Goodman, Stan Lee and Russ Heath)

I don't think we know that Stan Lee co-created Marvel Boy, though he was the editor.  Still, as editor, he--or for that matter Martin Goodman--probably came up with the name and vague concept.

Crusaders (Team)

Captain Wings (Roger Dicken)

Dyna-Mite (Roger Aubrey)

Ghost Girl (Wendy Hunt)

Spirit of '76 (William Nasland)

Thunderfist (Patrick Mason)

Tommy Lightning (Thomas Lovejoy)

Invaders #14 (1977)

 co-created with Frank Robbins

Cyttorak

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #44 (1988)

co-created with Geof Isherwood

(first mention of Cyttorak was in STRANGE TALES #124 (1964) by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, first statue appearance/likeness of Cyttorak was in X-MEN #12 (1965) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Alex Toth)

Crystal of Conquest

Dr. Strange #175 (1968)

co-created with Gene Colan

D

Damballah
(Dam-Ayido Wede/Josue Koulev)

Strange Tales #169 (1973)

co-created with Len Wein and Gene Colan
(based on West African mythology)

Len Wein did the majority of the plotting on the Brother Voodoo origin, so Damballah was just a god-name that he looked up and put in the story.

Lester Dant 

(Lester Leroy)

Daredevil #65 (1970)

co-created with Gene Colan

Carol Danvers

Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (1968)

co-created as "Carol Danvers" with Gene Colan 

(revamped as "Ms. Marvel" in MS. MARVEL #1 (1977) created by Gerry Conway and John Buscema, revamped as "Binary" in UNCANNY X-MEN #164 (1982) created by Chris Claremeont and Dave Cockrum, revamped as "Warbird" in AVENGERS #4 (1998) created by Kurt Busiek and George Perez, and revamped as "Captain Marvel" in AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #9 (2012) created by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Terry Dodson)

When I took over the new Captain Marvel series in MARVEL SUPER-HEROES with his second story.  I don't recall if Stan Lee asked me to make up a female head of security for The Cape or if it was my own idea.  I named her, although I don't think the name "Carol" appears until an issue or two later.  I wrote the first few stories in which she appeared, but of course others turned her into first Ms. Marvel, then Captain Marvel... and another heroine in between called Binary.  I may have been subconsciously influenced in Carol's last name by that of Supergirl's secret ID... but then, Danvers is a real name, not a made-up one, so it may just be a coincidence, and certainly Supergirl had no influence on Carol Danvers as a character.

John Darby

Red Wolf #3 (1972)

co-created with Syd Shores


Dark Angel
(Deborah and Donald Ritter)

Eternals: The Herod Factor #1 (1991)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Mark Texeria 

Fred Davis Jr.

Marvel Premiere #30 (1976) 

co-created with Don Heck

Death's Head

(Paxton Page) 

Daredevil #56 (1969)

co-created with Gene Colan

  

Deathweb (Team)

Anthro (Hashi Noto)

Arachne (Sylvie Yaqua)

Therak (Theodore Davros)

Avengers West Coast #84 (1992)

co-created with Dann Thomas and David Ross

Defenders (Team)

Marvel Feature #1 (1971)

co-created with Stan Lee and Ross Andru

I had done a two-issue story in SUB-MARINER #34 and 35 (1971) which teamed up Namor (sea), Silver Surfer (air), and Hulk (land) as "Titans Three" (seen in the Marvel Part 2 List)--not particularly with the idea that they would become a regular team, but of course if those issue sold well (and they did), that wasn't impossible.  Stan Lee liked the idea and the sales and decided they should become a new team, which he christened "The Defenders," no doubt remembering the popular but defunct TV show of that name.  But, since he wanted to write all Surfer stories himself, he insisted I replace Surfer with Dr. Strange in the new book.  This turned out to work well, as he became the de facto "leader" (to the extent that non-group grouping ever had one) of two characters neither of whom would ever have willingly followed anybody.  It was Steve Englehart soon who, whether directly or through me, persuaded Stan to let him bring Surfer into the team (as Stan became increasingly reconciled to the fact that he wasn't going to be able to write a revived SILVER SURFER mag), and soon added a new/third version of the Valkyrie character John Buscema and I had introduced.

Deimos

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #32 (1991) 

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Larry Alexander 

Diabolik 

(Zirksu)

Marvel Premier #35 (1977)

co-created with Jim Craig

Lionel Dibbs

Amazing Adventures #5 (1971)

co-created with Neal Adams

Diomedes of Argos

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979) 

co-created with John Buscema
 (based on character from the Iliad)

Doc Samson

(Leonard Samson)

Incredible Hulk #141 (1971)

co-created with Herb Trimpe 

I wanted a super-powered human with green hair to fight THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and I showed Herb Trimpe copies of the "Captain Tootsie" comic strip ads that ran in 1940s comics, with a hero designed originally by Fawcett Captain Marvel co-creator C.C. Beck.  I had Herb add the lightning bolt and different boots in honor of that CM, but the basic look in Captain Tootsie, as Herb remembered and often stated.  His real name was Leonard Samson... I presume he's the "Leonard" who's in "The Incredible Hulk" movie from 2008 and might have joined in the action if there'd been a third solo HULK film.

Dr. Lemuel Dorcas

Sub-Mariner #5 (1968)

co-created with John Buscema

 Dr. Myron MacLain

Avengers #66 (1969)

co-created with Barry Windsor-Smith

 Dr. Nemesis

(Michael Stockton)

Marvel Feature #4 (1972)

 co-created with Mike Friedrich and Herb Trimpe (unnamed)

(becomes "Dr. Nemesis" in MARVEL FEATURE #9 (1973) created by Mike Friedrich and P. Craig Russell)

 Dominus

X-Men #21 (1966)

co-created with Werner Roth (pseudonym Jay Gavin)

(first mentioned in X-Men #20 (1966))

Dragon Kings (Group)

Marvel Premiere #15 (1974)

co-created with Gil Kane

Dragona

Mighty Thor #286 (1979) 

co-created with Keith Pollard 

Dragorr

Tales to Astonish #94 (1967)

co-created with Bill Everett

Frank Drake

Tomb of Dracula #1 (1972)

co-created with Gerry Conway and Gene Colan

Frank Drake was a descendant of Count Dracula (the family name had been changed some decades before) who inherited Castle Dracula in Transylvania and went there to try to arrange to sell it in TOMB OF DRACULA #1.  After a brainstorming session with Stan, who had a basic two- or three-sentence idea for the story, I fleshed it out into a several-page synopsis and gave it to Gerry Conway to script.  Unfortunately, I forgot to ask Gerry to give me a co-writing credit, so my name isn't on the story.  But then, Gerry once plotted a HULK storyline for me, and he didn't get credit on that one.

Dreadnoughts

Strange Tales #154 (1967)

co-created with Jim Steranko

Duamutef

Incredible Hulk #145 (1971)

co-created with Len Wein and Herb Trimpe

Dykkors (Race)

Dr. Strange #172 (1968)

co-created with Gene Colan 

Dynorr the Stalker

Sub-Mariner #17 (1969)

co-created with Jack Katz and Marie Severin

With Jack Katz and Marie Severin as pencilers, the Stalker doesn't enter till the last part of the story and so was never drawn by Katz, I don't think, but only by Marie first.

Dyskor the Purveyor

Marvel Super-Heroes #14 (1993)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Greg LaRocque

E

Earth-712 (Planet)

(Earth-S)

Avengers #85 (1971)

co-created with John Buscema
(named by Mark Gruenwald)


Ebony Dagger

Marvel Super-Heroes #17 (1968) 

co-created with Howard Purcell
 
El Toro Rojo (Red Bull)

Mighty Thor #290 (1979)

co-created with Arvell Jones

Ereshkigal

Mighty Thor #283 (1979) 

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Mesopotamian mythology)

Eschu

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990) 

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood
(based on West African mythology)

Everinnye (Dimension)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #33 (1991)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier 

(only mentioned)

F

Faceless One

Astonishing Tales #2 (1970) 

co-created with Wally Wood


Factor Three (Team)

X-Men #28 (1967)

co-created with Werner Roth

Fafnir

Mighty Thor #294 (1980) 

co-created with Keith Pollard
(from Norse/Teutonic myth, as adapted into Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas)

Fasolt

Mighty Thor #294 (1980) 

co-created with Keith Pollard
(from Norse/Teutonic myth, as adapted into Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas)

Fear Lords (Group)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #31 (1991)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Larry Alexander

Chester Fenton

Captain Marvel #2 (1968) 

co-created with Gene Colan

 Fizzle
(Phzzzrrzztlzzzz)

Fantastic Four Unlimited #7 (1994)

co-created with Herb Trimpe

Flaming Star

Ghost Rider #1 (1967)

co-created with Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers

Flyx

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme Annual #2 (1992)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Frank Lopez 

 
Ramona Fradonia

Astonishing Tales #1 (1970)

co-created with Wally Wood

Freedom's Five (Team)

Crimson Cavalier (Rene Duquesne)
Phantom Eagle (Karl Kaufman)*
Sir Steel (Hugh Fitzwilliam Dare)
Silver Squire (Gordon Fitzwilliam Dare)
Union Jack (Lord James Montgomery Falsworth)**

Invaders #7 (1975) 

co-created with Frank Robbins

*character created by Gary Friedrich and Herb Trimpe 

**I designed the costume

Freki

Mighty Thor #275 (1978) 

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Norse mythology)

G

G'uran the Great

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #21 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Lee Weeks

Gaard

(Jonathan Storm) 

Fantastic Four #162 (1975)

co-created with Rich Buckler

Gargantos

Sub-Mariner #13 (1969)

co-created with Marie Severin

Gargantos was really nothing more than a one-eyed, octopoidal monster unleashed by Naga against Namor in SUB-MARINER #13.  By coincidence, and because of his slight physical resemblance to Shuma-Gorath as developed by Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner, Gargantos has now been elevated to a major opponent of Dr. Strange in the Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) movie.  Well, it's not totally inappropriate, I suppose, since I was the one who, back in the earliest days of the Dr. Strange series in MARVEL PREMIERE, introduced Shuma-Gorath as the name of a hidden, evil entity who was slowly developed by myself, then by Archie Goodwin and Gardner Fox and then especially by Steve and Frank, into a major creation. (Check out the Marvel Part 2 List under The Marvel Comics Concepts and Creations and More... for more on Shuma-Gorath.)

Gears 
(Rock 'n' Roll Group)

Joe Brockman
Russ Brockman
Koko
Marv

Millie the Model #135 (1966)

co-created with Stan Goldberg 

The Gears were an idea artist Stan Goldberg and I came up with together, and which I named "the Gears," when we were talking over what would be the story for MILLIE THE MODEL #135... I suppose we had that discussion in the latter months of 1965, though the issue would come out dated 1966.  The group obviously reflected my fandom of the Beatles, of course; I don't know that Stan was as big an admirer, but he was aware of them and was very enthusiasm about the idea, and mentioned to me several times later that the Gears were his favorite aspect of those latter days of Millie the Model as a comics feature.  I made up snatches of songs for them, usually with some idea of a (derivative) melody.  I was happy that later Denny O'Neil and Stan G. used the Gears when Denny took over as writer.  I saw the main two of the group as Americans, two of whom had gone to school with Millie back in Kansas.  (Toto High, no doubt.)  Not sure where the names Russ and Joe Brockman came from, though I have a feeling I'd known a Brockman I took their last name from.  There was also Koko, the English drummer, clearly based on Ringo Starr.  Not sure what the name or nationality of the fourth guy was.

General Bridges

Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (1968) 

co-created with Gene Colan

General Yuri Brushov

Avengers #43 (1967) 

co-created with John Buscema

Geri

Mighty Thor #275 (1978) 

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Norse mythology)

Ghost Rider

(Jonathan "Johnny" Blaze)

Marvel Spotlight #5 (1972)

co-created with Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog

Basically the idea of Gary Friedrich, using the name of M.E. and Marvel's western Ghost Rider (see character below under "Phantom Rider").  I worked out the precise look/design of the character--skull head with leather costume (loosely based on the black leather outfit that Elvis wore in his 1968 comeback special)--with artist Mike Ploog in a meeting which Gary didn't attend, but I can't say whether Gary and I had ever discussed the look of the new character before I talked to Ploog.  Gary was the initiator, however.

Glass of Doom

Strange Tales #158 (1967) 

co-created with Marie Severin

Glob

(Joseph Timms)

Incredible Hulk #121 (1969)

co-created with Herb Trimpe

Gnome

Tales to Astonish #94 (1967)

co-created with Bill Everett 

 

Godpack (Team)

(The Godlings)

Anak***

Bellam**

Blitziana*

High Evolutionary****

Loga*

Luminor*

Riger*** 

Zefra*** 

*Mighty Thor #472 (1994)

co-created with M.C. Wyman

(Team first appearance)

**Mighty Thor #473 (1994)

co-created with M.C. Wyman

***Mighty Thor #475 (1994)

co-created with M.C. Wyman

****character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

 

Gog

Amazing Spider-man #103 (1971)

co-created with Gil Kane  

Golem

Incredible Hulk #134 (1970)
co-created with Herb Trimpe

In 1970's INCREDIBLE HULK #134, I turned Ol' Greenskin into sort of a "golem" for a European country in thrall to a cruel dictator... and in the course of it, had Herb Trimpe draw a flashback that showed a version of the Golem of historical legend.  In 1974, in the period of Marvel's "monster-heroes," I decided that with Frankenstein and all the other Golem-influenced characters around, Marvel should have a Golem series, so I had Len Wein and John Buscema launch one in STRANGE TALES #174.  No doubt I instructed them as well to refer to the Golem flashback Herb and I had done, but otherwise I left them to their own devices.  It quickly became apparent that the series wasn't going to be a success... although, during his brief period as editor-in-chief when he was going over sales figures, Gerry Conway pointed out to me that the Golem issues had outsold the Jim Starlin WARLOCK series that followed it... although, of course, the Warlock series proved far more important and influential in the end. It should be noted, this is a different character named Golem than the "Jacob Goldstein" Golem that first appeared in MARVEL-TWO-IN-ONE Annual #1, that is a member of the Battle-Axis team listed above.

Goldie

Marvel Feature #4 (1972)
co-created with Mike Friedrich and Herb Trimpe

Goliath II
(Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton)

Avengers #63 (1969)

co-created with Gene Colan
(rechristened character named "Hawkeye," first appeared in TALES OF SUSPENSE #57 (1964) created by Stan Lee and Don Heck)

Gorr the Golden Gorilla

Fantastic Four #171 (1976)

co-created with George Perez

Gortokians (Race)

X-Men #41 (1968)

co-created with Don Heck 
(named by Chris Claremont)

 Grandmaster

(En Dwi Gast)

Avengers #69 (1969)

co-created with Sal Buscema

Grand Vizier

Avengers #75 (1970)

co-created with John Buscema 

Jason Grey

 Marvel Premiere #1 (1971)

co-created with Gil Kane 

Greysire (Windracer)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #26 (1991)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood

 Grim Reaper

(Eric Williams)

Avengers #52 (1968)

co-created with John Buscema 

Grogronk of Gronk

Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1993)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier, Stuart Hopen and Brian Postman

Grotesk
(Gor-Tok)

X-Men #41 (1968) 

co-created with Don Heck

Gwynn
(Deimne)

Mystic Arcana: Black Knight #1 (2007) 

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Tom Grummett

H
 

 Haag

Eternals: The Herod Factor #1 (1991)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Mark Texeria

Havok

(Alexander Summers) 

X-Men #58 (1969)

co-created with Neal Adams

(rechristened, redefined and reinvented character named "Alexander Summers," first appeared in X-MEN #54 (1969) created by Arnold Drake and Don Heck) 

Arnold Drake, when writing X-MEN briefly, gave Scott (Cyclops) Summers a brother who might or might not be a mutant. When I was asked by Stan Lee to take over the next issue, I definitely made him a mutant.  And when Neal Adams came aboard as artist, I asked Neal to design a costume and I planned to call him Havok, from the Shakespearean quote in JULIUS CAESAR:  "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"  Neal came up with a wonderful costume and added gimmick, in which the concentric circles on his chest showed how much energy he was emitting, and got larger as his power expenditure increased.

Hector of Troy

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979)

co-created with John Buscema
 (based on character from the Iliad)

Hermond Odinson

Mighty Thor #274 (1978)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Norse mythology)

Horse (dealer)

Marvel Feature #2 (1972)

co-created with Ross Andru

Horus

Mighty Thor #239 (1975)

co-created with Sal Buscema
(based on Egyptian mythology)

Horusians (Race)

Incredible Hulk #145 (1971)
co-created with Len Wein and Herb Trimpe 

Hounds of Helios

Marvel Premiere #2 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane

Stella Houston

Tower of Shadows #5 (1970)

co-created with Barry Windsor-Smith

 Hugin and Munin

Mighty Thor #274 (1978)

co-created with Sal Buscema
(based on Norse mythology)

 Huntsman

(Cephalus)

Sub-Mariner #29 (1970)

co-created with Sal Buscema
(based on Greek mythology, but I dubbed him "Huntsman")

I

Ikthon

Sub-Mariner #7 (1968)

co-created with John Buscema

Imset

Incredible Hulk #145 (1971)

co-created with Len Wein and Herb Trimpe

Inhuman 

("fireproof")

Fantastic Four #159 (1975)

co-created with Rich Buckler

Invaders (Team)

Giant-Size Invaders #1 (1975)

co-created with Stan Lee and Frank Robbins

As soon as I left being editor-in-chief and needed additional comics to write, I went looking for a way to write major super-heroes without getting involved in current continuity, since I would be my own editor and didn't especially want to coordinate much with other writers.  Writing stories set in WWII (as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had once set Captain America stories) was that chance.  Writing Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and (the original) Human Torch gave me three recognizable characters to hang that comic on; I knew I could bring in other vintage characters (or make up new ones, like Union Jack) as I went along.  Since Stan had once considered doing a comic titled THE INVADERS co-starring the Hulk and Sub-Mariner (after he and Marie Severin did TALES TO ASTONISH #100 (1968)), I pitched the WWII/"Big Three" concept with that name, knowing that Stan wouldn't go for "All Winners Squad" as too corny.  Stan said, "I like the name"--probably not remembering that, half a dozen years earlier, he had proposed it himself as a title.  And so the concept was born, giving me a chance to use my interest in WWII (especially the U.S. Home Front, but soon abroad as well) in a comic.  I had Winston Churchill name the group, since he would be more interested in having the Invaders actually invade something--namely, Hitler's Fortress Europe.

 Iron Cross

(Helmut Gruler)

Invaders #35 (1979)

co-created with Alan Kupperberg and Don Heck

 Iron Fist

(Daniel "Danny" Rand) 

Marvel Premiere #15 (1974)

co-created with Gil Kane

My first wife Jeanie and I went to see our first (?) kung fu movie called "Kick Boxer" (aka Five Fingers of Death) in 1972, and it contained a "ceremony of the iron fist."  I decided that, in spite of Marvel already having an Iron Man, Iron Fist would be a good name and concept for a Caucasian kung fu super-hero... we already had Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, an Asian who was basically the creation of Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin.  When Stan Lee gave me a verbal approval to star him in a series, I contacted Gil Kane and we worked out the costume and story.  I had Gil give him a dragon brand on his chest, inspired by the one branded into Bullseye, a great western character created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.  At Gil's urging, we took some story elements from Bill Everett's 1939 hero Amazing-Man, which itself had borrowed heavily from James Hilton's novel THE LOST HORIZON and the first movie made from it, which introduced "Shangri-La" to the world.

 Isis 

Mighty Thor #239 (1975)

co-created with Sal Buscema
(based on Egyptian mythology)

Ixar the Invincible

Avengers #36 (1967)

co-created with Don Heck 

J

Jabari Tribe (Group)

Avengers #62 (1969) 

co-created with John Buscema

Jamie Jacobs

Ghost Rider #1 (1967)

co-created with Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers

Jarella

Incredible Hulk #140 (1971)

co-created with Harlan Ellison and Herb Trimpe

 

K 

K'un-Lun, City of the Immortals

Marvel Premiere #15 (1974)

co-created with Gil Kane
(based on Chinese mythology) 


Karthon the Quester

Sub-Mariner #10 (1969)

co-created with Gene Colan

Kid Commandos (Team)

Bucky (James Buchanan Barnes)*
Golden Girl (Gwendolyne Lou Sabuki)***
Human Top (David Mitchell)****
Toro (Thomas Raymond)**

*character created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby 

**character created by Carl Burgos

***Invaders #26 (1978) 
co-created with Frank Robbins

****Invaders #27 (1978) 
co-created with Frank Robbins

 Invaders #28 (1978) 
co-created with Frank Robbins
(Team first appearance)


King Agamemnon of the Argives

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979)

co-created with John Buscema
 (based on character from the Iliad)


King Priam of Troy

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979)

co-created with John Buscema
 (based on character from the Iliad)


King Rudolfo Haasen Fortunov

Astonishing Tales #1 (1970)

co-created with Wally Wood


Kingdom of Tazza (Dimension)

Strange Tales #144 (1966)

co-created with Steve Ditko

 Killraven

(Jonathan Raven)

Amazing Adventures #18 (1973)

co-created with Gerry Conway and Neal Adams

 Klaatu

Incredible Hulk #136 (1971)

co-created with Gerry Conway and Herb Trimpe

Eric Koenig

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #27 (1966)

co-created with Stan Lee and Dick Ayers

 (I gave last name)

Ilsa Koenig

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #35 (1966)

co-created with Stan Lee and Dick Ayers

Kohbra 


Marvel Premiere #1 (1972)
co-created with Gil Kane


Kor-Konn 

Sub-Mariner #4 (1968)
co-created with John Buscema

Kormok

Sub-Mariner #17 (1969)

co-created with Jack Katz and Marie Severin

Kottus the Furious

Avengers Annual #23 (1994)

co-created with John Buscema


Kraken 
(creature species) 

Tales to Astonish #93 (1967)
co-created with Dan Adkins 
(based on Norse mythology)

Kenneth and Kevin Krask

Double feature: Thunderstrike/Code: Blue #15 (1993)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Larry Alexander

 Kratos

Avengers #50 (1968)

co-created with John Buscema

(based on figure from Aeschylus' Greek tragedy PROMETHEUS BOUND)


Krimonn

Avengers #69 (1969)

co-created with John Buscema

Kt'kn (Race)

Astonishing Tales #2 (1970) 

co-created with Wally Wood

Kukulkan

(Ahau)

X-Men #25 (1966)

co-created with Werner Roth
(based on Mesoamerican mythology)

I used the Mesoamerican god Kukulkan... or at least a mortal becoming a "reincarnation" of him... as an enemy of the X-Men back in X-MEN #25 & 26.  I Did this because, in 1964, a girlfriend and I had driven around Mexico for a month, and visited such pre-Columbia ruins as Tula, the Aztec ruins (such as they are) in Mexico City, the Pyramid of the Sun, and the underground pyramid in Puebla, and of course I've always had a considerable interest in mythology.

Kulan Gath

Conan the Barbarian #14 (1972)

co-created with Michael Moorcock, James Cawthorn and Barry Windsor-Smith

Elric creator Mike Moorcock and his pal James Cawthorn made up Kulan Gath as part of a "Conan Meets Elric" plot I invited them to write for CONAN THE BARBARIAN, which I then edited down a bit and became the stories in issues #14 and 15.  Marvel and/or Conan Properties must've worked out a deal with them as Kulan Gath has been in numerous Marvel stories since, and not just Conan ones.  Barry Smith and I are co-creators, since we realized the character in comics.

L

Lady Liberators (Team)

Avengers #83 (1970)

co-created with John Buscema 

It was, perhaps, the first all-female grouping of super-heroines, composed of the Scarlet Witch, the Wasp, Medusa, Black Widow, and Valkyrie--even if that (first) Valkyrie turned out to be Thor's old foe the Enchantress in disguise.  She got them together to defeat the Avengers, but it was a very temporary victory.  Too bad I didn't get the Liberators (dropping that "Lady" bit) together again! Luckily, they reformed with a few new members in the modern age.

Henri-Desire Landru

Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1993)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier, Stuart Hopen and Brian Postman

Lonni Lattimer

Mighty Thor #280 (1979)

co-created with Don Thompson, Maggie Thompson and Wayne Boring

Laurent and Alexandre (Twins)

(First Brother Voodoo and Vodu Spirit)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood

Mambo Layla

Tales of the Zombie #1 (1973)

co-created with Steve Gerber and John Buscema


Le Sabre

(Paul Richarde)

Marvel Super-Heroes #17 (1968)

co-created with Howard Purcell  


Legba

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood
(based on West African mythology)


 Lei-Kung the Thunderer

Marvel Premiere #16 (1974)

co-created with Len Wein and Larry Hama

Lernean Hydra

Avengers #43 (1967)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Greek mythology)

Lethal Legion (Team)

Avengers #78 (1970)

co-created with John Buscema

 

Lethal Legion Satannish (Team)

Axe of Violence (Lizabeth Andrew "Lizzy" Borden)

Coldsteel (Joseph Stalin)

Cyana (Lucrezia Borgia)

Hangman (Jason "Jase" Roland)*

Zyklon (Hienrich Himmler)

*Tower of Shadows #5 (1970)

co-created with Barry Windsor-Smith 

Avengers West Coast #98 (1993)

co-created team concept with Dann Thomas and David Ross

(Team first appearance)

Leviathan 

Sub-Mariner #5 (1968)

co-created with John Buscema

                   

Liberty Legion (Team)

Marvel Premiere #29 (1976)

co-created with Don Heck

Living Diamond (Jack O' Diamonds)

(Jack Winters) 

X-Men #39 (1967)

co-created with Werner Roth 

Living Lightning

(Miguel Santos)

Avengers West Coast #63 (1990)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Paul Ryan 

 

I don't know if Miguel Santos, the Living Lightning was the first Hispanic super-hero at Marvel or not; that wasn't the idea when I came up with him, but he was certainly one of the first, at least.  Having lived at that time in Los Angeles since mid-1976, I thought it was about time. 

The name was taken from Stan Lee (who else?), who way back in the late-60s TALES TO ASTONISH had made up the Legion of the Living Lightning as one of the many "secret empire"-type groups running around in those days, drawn in that case by Marie Severin.  Later, when writing THOR, I liked the phrase "living lightning" so much that I had him often refer to himself as the "lord of the living lightning."  But eventually, I decided I wanted that name solidly affixed to a super-hero... an electrical echo of the Human Torch, of course.  (Back when I was 10-12, something like that, I had written and drawn a few stories, or at least pages, about a similar hero I called Shockman, or occasionally Shockwave... I drew him, so far as I could, to LOOK like an electric version of the Torch.  So this was just reviving that idea 40 or so years later.)

Dann and I worked him out, since, as a Los Angeleno, she had gone to school (and later worked with) numerous Hispanics.  And our neighbor across the street was named Santos... so we took the last name from that.  (I think we also had a "Santos" or two get killed in that ETERNAL series we did.)  Dann spoke a little Spanish, and I had learned a tiny bit when gearing up for a month-long drive through Mexico in 1964... and we decided that, like some folks we'd both run into and read about in THE L.A. TIMES, he would speak mostly English, with some Spanish words tossed in for flavor.  That was only one, and perhaps not perfect, way to approach LL's speech pattern, but we did the best we could.  If others came up with more "authentic" speech patterns later, fine... that was up to them.

The first story with the Living Lightning (whom I tied in with the Legion of Living Lightning, partly to acknowledge the name's ultimate source) was drawn by Paul Ryan in AVENGERS WEST COAST #63... but, while Paul was a splendid artist, I was unhappy with the way LL looked in that story. I had wanted a real "crackle" to him... his human figure far less "contained" by his electrical aura than, say, the Torch's was by his flame aura. I wanted the electricity to look as if it were constantly seeking to escape the bonds of the human figure, so that as he flew his legs basically disappeared into a Mighty-Mouse-like trail of electrical crackle. That look was achieved perfectly with Canadian artist Dave Ross drew him, starting in AVENGERS WEST COAST #74.

Living Monolith

(Ahmet Abdol)

X-Men #56 (1969)

co-created with Neal Adams

(rechristened, redefined and reinvented character named "Living Pharaoh," first appeared in X-MEN #54 (1969) created by Arnold Drake and Don Heck)

Llyra

(Llyra Morris)

Sub-Mariner #32 (1970)

co-created with Sal Buscema


Lobo (Wolf)

Avengers #80 (1970)

co-created with John Buscema


Locust
(August Hopper)

X-Men #24 (1966)

co-created with Werner Roth

Lord Nekron


Dr. Strange #174 (1969)
co-created with Gene Colan 


Lusa

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood
(based on West African mythology)


Monica Lynne

Avengers #73 (1970)

co-created with Frank Giacoia and Herb Trimpe

M

Mahu

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood
(based on West African mythology)


Major Victory
(William Joseph White, Biljo White)

Invaders #16 (1977)
co-created with Jim Mooney

(Biljo White's comicbook character) 


Man-Ape
(M'Baku)

Avengers #62 (1969)
co-created with John Buscema 

M'Baku the Man-Ape was an idea I came up with in a hurry when I needed to phone John Buscema from the office and get him started on the next issue of THE AVENGERS, having run out of time to send him the usual written synopsis.  I figured I'd have the Panther fight a bad-guy who had his own token jungle animal... and I needed something more formidable than a panther.  A lion was just another cat... an elephant looked big and clumsy... Marvel already had a rhino... so I settled on a gorilla, making his fur white to contrast with the Black Panther.  I gave him the broad strokes of the story, off the top of my head, in a few minutes, then said he could start penciling and I'd send him the written synopsis so he'd get it in a couple of days.  He said, "Nah, I've got enough."  And the art that you see in the printed comic came from that brief conversation.

Mandroids (Kree)

Captain Marvel #18 (1969)

co-created with Gil Kane, John Buscema and John Romita


Mandroid Armor Mark I

Avengers #94 (1971)

co-created with Neal Adams

Man-Thing
(Theodore "Ted" Sallis) 

Savage Tales #1 (1971)
co-created with Stan Lee, Gerry Conway and Dwight "Gray" Morrow 

I'd already made up a Heap-type character called the Glob in THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and Swamp Thing was just a little in the future, when Stan Lee decided he wanted a monster-character called Man-Thing for SAVAGE TALES #1.  I didn't like the name, since we already had the Thing... but Stan was the boss.  We kicked around several ideas in brief, and the one Stan decided he liked (probably his) was that of a man who's tainted by a swamp to become a Man-Thing, in some sort of spy or crime story.  I went off and fleshed out the idea into a synopsis that ran 2-3 pages (it's been printed), and gave it to Gerry Conway to turn into a script for artist Gray Morrow.  Whether Gerry wrote it Marvel-style or full script, I don't recall... but he followed the synopsis, so that Man-Thing has three writer co-creators... Stan, myself, and Gerry.  Plus Gray as the artist, who was (as I wanted) inspired by the Heap in the design of the character.

Man-Wolf 
(John Jameson)

Amazing Spider-Man #124 (1973)
co-created with Gerry Conway, Gil Kane and John Romita
(rechristened, redefined and reinvented character named "John Jameson," first appeared in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 (1963) created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko)

When Stan Lee wanted a second werewolf after WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, whom he named Man-Wolf, my main contribution was to have him get his changing "powers" from a moon rock.  I don't know whose idea it was to make him J. Jonah Jameson's astronaut son.

Manipulator
(Ferrel J. Thompson)

Avengers West Coast #85 (1992)
co-created with Dann Thomas and David Ross)

Master Man I

(Wilhelm Lohmer)

Giant-Size Invaders #1 (1975)

co-created with Frank Robbins

Master Menace

(Emil Zebediah Burbank)

Mighty Thor #280 (1979)

co-created as "Emil Burbank" with Don Thompson, Maggie Thompson and Wayne Boring
(revamped as "Master Menace" in SQUADRON SUPREME #6 (1986) created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Ryan)

 Harold Meachum

Marvel Premiere #15 (1974)

co-created with Gil Kane


Megataur

Fantastic Four Unlimited #4 (1993)

co-created with Herb Trimpe


Mekano
(Tom Regal)

X-Men #36 (1967)

co-created with Ross Andru

Mephista

(Jezebel, Daughter of Mephisto)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #6 (1989)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Jackson Guice   

Metabo

Mighty Thor #286 (1979) 

co-created with Keith Pollard 


Metalloid

Fantastic Four #179 (1977)

co-created with Gerry Conway and Ron Wilson

Mime

Mighty Thor #297 (1980)

co-created with Keith Pollard 
 (from Norse/Teutonic myth, as adapted into Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas)

Mimir

(Mimir Burison)

Mighty Thor #240 (1975)

co-created with Sal Buscema
(based on Norse mythology)   

Missing Link

(Lincoln Brickford)

Incredible Hulk #105 (1968)

co-created with Archie Goodwin, Bill Everett and Marie Severin

Mogol

Incredible Hulk #127 (1970)

co-created with Herb Trimpe


Giacomo Montesi
(Custodian of Darkhold)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #13 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and David Day

 

Marcello Montesi

(Custodian of Darkhold)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #13 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and David Day

Paolo Montesi

(Custodian of Darkhold)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #12 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and David Day

Vittorio Montesi

(Custodian of Darkhold)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #15 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and David Day

Morbius the Living Vampire

(Michael Morbius)

Amazing Spider-Man #101 (1971)

co-created with Gil Kane

When Stan Lee had to leave AMAZING SPIDER-MAN for four issues, he wanted Gil Kane and me to create Marvel's first vampire as a foe for Spidey, since the Comics Code had just been changed to allow vampires and werewolves.  Gil and I were just going to bring in Dracula (not yet a Marvel character), but Stan said he wanted more of a super-villain.  I came up with the name Morbius (not remembering it had been the name of the scientist Walter Pidgeon played in a beloved movie, "Forbidden Planet"--but of course, I was thinking of the word "morbid"), and instead of a real vampire, I wanted to do a man with a blood disease, an idea I borrowed from a late-50s movie called simple "The Vampire."  (Not "Atom-Age Vampire," as some think.)  Gil wonderfully designed the look of the character, and we did borrow a bit from DRACULA, especially in Morbius' origin and his sea voyage.

 Nikolai Mordo

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #6 (1989)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Tom Sutton

 

Sara Krowler Mordo

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #6 (1989)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Tom Sutton

Jim Morita

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #38 (1967)

co-created with Dick Ayers 
(it was staffer/letterer Morrie Kuramoto, who gave me the Japanese name "Morita.")

Saul Morris

Patsy and Hedy #104 (1966)

co-created with Al Hartley

Mutant Master

X-Men #37 (1967)

co-created with Ross Andru

(behind the scenes in X-MEN #26 (1966)) 

N

 

N'Kantu the Living Mummy

Supernatural Thrillers #5 (1973)

co-created with Steve Gerber and Rich Buckler

I made up the name "The Living Mummy."  I don't recall if Stan Lee specifically wanted a mummy, or if it was just that he wanted some other monster-related books and a mummy was a natural that I came up with... then I turned it over to Steve Gerber, with general instructions... and left him to it.  Of course, I supervised the covers, etc, with Stan.

Naga

Sub-Mariner #9 (1969)

co-created with Marie Severin


Nameless One, Ruler of the Undying Ones

  

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #41 (1992)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood 

Nanali

Fantastic Four Unlimited #1 (1993)

co-created with Dave Hoover


Carter Napier

Avengers West Coast #84 (1992)

co-created with David Ross

Ramona Napier

Captain America Annual #9 (1990)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Jim Valentino

Necromancer

(Counter-Earth Stephan Strange)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #46 (1992)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood

Neferthamen

Incredible Hulk #145 (1971)
co-created with Len Wein and Herb Trimpe 

Nega-Bands

Captain Marvel #16 (1969)
co-created with Archie Goodwin, Don Heck and Gil Kane

The Nega-Bands were created for CAPTAIN MARVEL #17 as a means for Mar-Vell and Rick Jones to exchange places between Earth and the Negative Zones, with the "Nega-" obviously short for "Negative."  Gil Kane was this artist, illustrating the concept that had originally been made up for the synopsis that had been sent to then-artist Don heck.  The Nega-Bands were, as Mar-Vell remarks, "the only recorded antidote to the kind of radiation that blasted me into the anti-cosmos," which I guess I meant the Negative Zone.  Their use had been forbidden in Kree culture, as Yon-Rogg says, "because they powers, they confer upon their wearer."  Apparently, they worked the exchange when the one in the Earth-dimension clanged his wrists together... the one in the Negative Zone didn't seem to be able to use them to make the atomic exchange.  (I suppose that technically the Nega-band seem to be on Mar-Vell's wrists in CM #16, which was written by Archie Goodwin and penciled by Heck, but the entire costume-change, etc., that occurs near the end of #16 was imposed on the story by me (acting as associate editor) while it was in the process of being drawn. 

 Nethergods (Group)

Marvel Super-Heroes #17 (1968)

co-created with Howard Purcell


Night-Crawler
(Dark-Crawler)

 Incredible Hulk #126 (1970)
co-created with Herb Trimpe 


Night Machine
(Nikola Tesla)

Captain America: The Medusa Effect #1 (1994)

co-created with Rich Buckler and M.C. Wyman

Emil Nikos

Amazing Spider-man #102 (1971) 

co-created with Gil Kane

Barbara Denton Norris

Incredible Hulk #125 (1972)

co-created with Herb Trimpe


Jackson "Jack" F. Norris

Incredible Hulk #125 (1972)

co-created with Herb Trimpe 


Roger "Red" Norvell

Mighty Thor #273 (1978)

co-created with John Buscema
(revamped as "Thor" in MIGHTY THOR #278 (1978) co-created with John Buscema)

Nox (Nyx)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #31 (1991)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Larry Alexander
(based on Greek mythology)

 Nuklo

(Robert Frank Jr.)

Giant-Size Avengers #1 (1974)

co-created with Rich Buckler

O

O Bengh

(Cagliostro)

(Mentioned) Dracula Lives #1 (1973); (Seen) Dracula Lives #5 (1974)

co-created with Gerry Conway, Rich Buckler, Jean-Marc Lofficier and Tom Sutton

(based on historical figure)

O Bengh, a character apparently introduced in the first Dr. Strange episode of the animated Disney+ series What If...? is a bit of an anomaly... because he never really appeared in a Marvel or other comicbook, but was created for the "Book of the Vishanti" series Jean-Marc Lofficier and I were co-writing for the DR. STRANGE series in the 1990s.  As Jean-Marc has recounted, he made up that name to be the real name of a character who had pretended to be the real-life magician Cagliostro in IRON MAN #149, in 1981; this was part of Jean-Marc's attempt, with my cooperation, to straighten out the tangled history of Cagliostro through various Marvel mags, starting with a Dr. Strange story in MARVEL PREMIERE #12 and winding through our "Vishanti" series.

However, Jean-Marc's plot for that 1990s "Book of the Vishanti" chapter, which he wrote for me to dialogue, was never dialogued or published, though it was bought and paid for by Marvel.  The NYC editors at that time changed direction with the DR. STRANGE title, taking me off it after a fairly successful run of a couple of years, and later, as Jean-Marc recounts, "the script that traces the entire history of O BENGH/CAGLIOSTRO was published on the Marvel Appendix site," where it can be viewed "here" by anyone interested.  Jean-Marc and I were surprised that someone connected with animated series What If...? (2021) must have perused that script and yanked O Bengh from it, to plop him into the streaming series.

Incidentally, Jean-Marc took the name "O Beng" from that of a legendary/mythical figure and added the final "h" to make it more exotic. 

Ogre

(Brian Dunlap)

X-Men #26 (1967)

co-created with Werner Roth

Ogun and Xevioso (Twins)

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #17 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Geof Isherwood
(based on West African mythology)

Oka'an

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #21 (1990)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Lee Weeks

 Omega the Alpha Male

Fantastic Four #131 (1973)

co-created with Ross Andru

 Omegatron

Marvel Feature #1 (1971)

co-created with Ross Andru

Omni-Wave Projector

Avengers #93 (1971)

co-created with Neal Adams

The Omni-Wave Projector was Kree technology that allowed instantaneous communication with the homeworld via hyperspace.  It could also, in the hands of a non-Kree, as it turned out, be turned into a weapon against the Kree.

 
Orka, the Human Killer Whale

Sub-Mariner #23 (1970)

co-created with Marie Severin

Orkie

Marvel Feature #4 (1972)

co-created with Mike Fredrich and Herb Trimpe

Osiris

Mighty Thor #239 (1975)

co-created with Sal Buscema
(based on Egyptian mythology)

 Osprey

(Oscar Kincaid Jr.)

Fantastic Four #177 (1976)

co-created with George Perez

Outcast

(Xorak)

X-Men #33 (1967)

co-created with Werner Roth

The Outcast was an other-dimensional alien who fought the Ancient One when he was a young man.  Xorak had been created by the god Cyttorak to guard his sacred temple.  Years later, when the X-Men entered that dimension in X-MEN #33, the so-called Outcast attacked them...  but the mutants managed to retrieve the magical gem they were after and use it to defeat the Juggernaut.

Gil Kane penciled and inked the original cover for X-MEN #33 with the Outcast menacing Angel and Iceman, with symbolic heads of Cyclops, Marvel Girl, the Beast, and Prof. X on the margins.  However, the Comics Code decided that the Outcast was too "frightening" and could not be used on the cover.  So, someone at the office had to change the Outcast into the helmeted Juggernaut, although Gil Kane's hands for the Outcast remain.

Owayodata

Avengers #80 (1970)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Native American mythology)

P

Pacific Overlords (Team)

Big One (Kenjiro Sasaki)**

Cybertooth (Yen Hsieh)****

Dr. Demonicus (Douglas Birely)*****

Irezumi (Kayama Inouye)****

Jawbreaker (Tung Rapongan)*

Kain (Morgan Kain)***

Kuroko (Aya Komatsu)*

Pele (Michi Sasaki)***

Taifu (Toshio Sasaki)*

*Avengers West Coast #69 (1991)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Paul Ryan

**Avengers West Coast #70 (1991)

co-created with Dann Thomas and Steve Butler

(Team first appearance)

***Avengers West Coast #71 (1991)

co-created with Dann Thomas, David Ross and Tom Morgan

****Avengers West Coast #72 (1991)

co-created with Dann Thomas and David Ross

*****character created by Dough Moench and Tom Sutton

Pantheon of Sorcerers (Group)

Holi
Moli
Torla

Incredible Hulk #140 (1971)

co-created with Harlen Ellison and Herb Trimpe


Malicia and Reginald Parrington

Incredible Hulk #142 (1971)

co-created with Herb Trimpe


Samantha Parrington

Incredible Hulk #142 (1971)

co-created with Herb Trimpe


Patroclus

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on character from the Iliad) 


Persephone

Avengers Annual #23 (1994)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on Geek mythology)

Petrified Man
(Garokk)

Astonishing Tales #2 (1970) 

co-created with Jack Kirby

Phantom Rider

(Carter Slade) 

Ghost Rider #1 (1969)

co-created with Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers 

 

The original (Western) Ghost Rider was a 1950s character co-created by Ray Krank and Dick Ayers for the Magazine Enterprises company.  Stan Lee liked the concept, so Marvel picked it up in 1967 as an "abandoned trademark," and I got myself assigned to write it.  However, Stan quickly changed his mind and decided he didn't want me "wasting my time" on a Western comic, so we assigned Gary Friedrich to do the actual script, though we plotted that first story together.  It was only later that he became called, in reprints, Night Rider and/or Phantom Rider.

 Philoctetes

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979)

co-created with John Buscema
 (based on Greek mythology)

Phobos

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #32 (1991)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier and Larry Alexander 

Phoenix 

(Extremist group)

Kragg

Unnamed members 

Daredevil #68 (1970)

co-created with Gene Colan 

Augustyne Phyffe

Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1993)

co-created with Jean-Marc Lofficier, Stuart Hopen and Brian Postman  

Polemachians (Race)

Avengers #75 (1970) 

co-created with John Buscema 

Polemachus (Planet)

Avengers #75 (1970) 

co-created with John Buscema 

Porcunius

Incredible Hulk #158 (1972)

co-created with Steve Gerber and Herb Trimpe


Prince Paris of Troy

Mighty Thor Annual #8 (1979)

co-created with John Buscema
(based on character from the Iliad)  


Proteus (Atlantean Sage)

Sub-Mariner #36 (1971)

co-created with Sal Buscema

Psyche-Magnitron

Captain Marvel #18 (1969)

co-created with Gil Kane and John Buscema

Psychotron

Avengers #41 (1967)

co-created with John Buscema

The Psychotron, invented by Dr. Yen and overseen by the Far Eastern Communist General Ling, was a machine capable of creating fearful delusions in people's brains, used against both the Black Widow and Hercules in a storyline in AVENGERS #41-44.  Eventually, its mental images might cause a person to go insane. 

Psyklop

Avengers #88 (1971)

co-created with Harlan Ellison and Sal Buscema 

Q

Qebehsenuf

Incredible Hulk #145 (1971)
co-created with Len Wein and Herb Trimpe 

Quantum Bands

Fantastic Four #164 (1975)

co-created with George Perez 

The Quantum Bands were, if I remember correctly, my augmentation of the unnamed wristbands worn by Marvel Boy in the 1950s issues of MARVEL BOY which later became ASTONISHING.  The earlier version had mostly seemed just to send out blinding light, which didn't seem strong enough to me when I aged Marvel Boy into the Crusader, aiming for him to battle THE FANTASTIC FOUR in issue #164... so I promoted them to Quantum Bands, whatever that means.  They were now full-fledged force rays, ably drawn by George Perez. 

 R

Heather Rand

Marvel Premiere #15 (1974)

co-created with Gil Kane

Wendell Rand

Marvel Premiere #15 (1974)

co-created with Gil Kane

Rand Corporation
(Rand-Meachum Incorporated)

Marvel Premiere #15 (1974)

co-created with Gil Kane

Raptor

(Gary Wilton Jr.)

Avengers West Coast Annual #8 (1993)

co-created with Kris Renkewitz 

 Rat Pack

(Saboteurs)

Captain Marvel #20 (1970)

co-created with Gil Kane  

Frankie Raye

Fantastic Four #164 (1975)

co-created with George Perez 
(revamped as "Nova" in FANTASTIC FOUR #244 (1982) created by John Byrne) 

Ann Raymond

Sub-Mariner #14 (1969)

co-created with Marie Severin

Red Guardian

(Alexi Shostakov)

Avengers #43 (1967)

co-created with John Buscema

The original Red Guardian was Alexei Shostakov, a test pilot and later KGB agent.  He was also married to Natash Romanov, the Black Widow, although for years she thought he was dead.  He had been turned into the Soviet Union's equivalent of Captain America, but soon perished in battle with the Avengers--shot by the Chinese General Hing. 

Red Wolf

(William Talltrees) 

Avengers #80 (1970)

co-created with John Buscema

I wanted an American Indian hero for THE AVENGERS, so I told John Buscema to draw one who had a wolf-mask set up on his head, plus bare chest and those rawhide leggings, with a wolf buddy named Lobo.  It worked out fairly well.  And at least (so far) I'm not being condemned for having no more Native American blood than Elizabeth Warren. We did the best we could.

Mego Stretch Hulk editorial interruption:  Michael A. Sheyahshe had a great quote about Red Wolf in his book NATIVE AMERICANS IN COMIC BOOKS: A CRITICAL STUDY (2008):

“We must applaud Red Wolf for many reasons, the comic contains a character who is the first major Native superhero, one who is a complex character, more human than many other Indigenous characters, and one that even has his own sidekick.”

Renegades (Team)

Carlos Cortez
Little Flower
The Dude
The Kid

Western Gunfighters #1 (1970)

co-created with Mike Friedrich and Tom Sutton


Ravonna Renslayer

Incredible Hulk #135 (1971)

co-created with Herb Trimpe

Rhodan

Marvel Premiere #2 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane


Roadkill

Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #38 (1992)

co-created with Dann Thomas, Jean-Marc Lofficier and Larry Alexander 

Barney Roberts

Marvel Premiere #2 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane

Eddie Roberts

Marvel Premiere #2 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane

Ellie Roberts

Marvel Premiere #1 (1972)

co-created with Gil Kane

Theodore Roberts

X-Men #24 (1966)

co-created with Werner Roth

 Lissa Russell
(Lissa Russoff)


Marvel Spotlight #2 (1972)
co-created with Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog

(Marvel list continues into Part 2) 

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