Box (comics)

Box
Box (middle) charges into battle alongside his Alpha Flight teammates. From Alpha Flight #36 (July 1986). Cover art by Mike Mignola.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Alpha Flight vol. 1, #1 (August, 1983 (as Box) Alpha Flight vol. 1, #11 (June, 1984) (as Roger Bochs)
Created by	John Byrne
In-story information
Alter ego	Roger Bochs
Team affiliations	Alpha Flight Beta Flight Gamma Flight
Notable aliases	Omega
Abilities	Mechanical genius, Ability to phase into the Box-armor and merge with it As Box: Superhuman strength

Box (Roger Bochs) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, specifically Alpha Flight, of which Box was a member.

Roger Bochs was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He was a brilliant engineer and mechanic, who lost both of his legs. He created a remote-controlled robot which he called Box as a play on his own name. James Hudson saw Bochs' potential. He helped him with the construction of Box and recruited Bochs into Gamma Flight, a training program for the Canadian superhero group Alpha Flight, which was led by Hudson as Guardian. Bochs quickly graduated to Beta Flight, a group for more advanced superhero trainees, but the Canadian government severed its links with Alpha Flight shortly afterwards and Beta Flight and Gamma Flight were cancelled. Some members of Beta Flight joined Alpha Flight, while most Gamma Flight-members were recruited by Jerome Jaxon, an old enemy of Hudson, to join Omega Flight, a criminal organisation. Bochs was approached as well and joined Omega Flight, but with the intention to destroy it from within. When Jaxon discovered this, he took Box's controlling helmet and had the robot attack Guardian. During the battle Guardian managed to damage Box and the feedback killed Jaxon, but the damage sustained during the battle caused Guardian's suit to explode later.

Bochs returned to work on Box, but felt partly responsible for Guardian's death. Another friend of Guardian, Madison Jeffries met up with Bochs. Jeffries had the mutant ability to shape metal, plastic and glass with his mind. Together they vastly improved upon the original Box design. Now the controller no longer wore a helmet, but physically merged with stronger and bigger Box. Bochs wanted to use Box to hunt down Delphine Courtney, an android working for Jaxon and the leader of Omega Flight for its part in Hudson's death, but Box was needed elsewhere: The body of Walter Langkowski (alias Sasquatch) had been taken over by the Great Beast Tanaraq and Snowbird was forced to destroy the body. Alpha Flight managed to save the his soul and projected it into the armor. Bochs tried to find a new body for him, but failed and Langkowski's soul left Box. Bochs controlled Box once again and joined Alpha Flight as an official member.Aurora expressed a romantic interest in Bochs, who returned her affection, but Aurora's fickle nature caused him much stress.