Glorian
| Glorian | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | (as Thomas Gideon): Fantastic Four vol. 1 #34 (Jan 1965) (as Glorian): Incredible Hulk #190 (Aug 1975) |
| Created by | Gerry Conway and John Buscema |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Thomas Gideon |
| Notable aliases | The Dreamer |
| Abilities | Reality and tachyon manipulation Ability to create hyperspatial "rainbow bridges" Limited telepathy |
Glorian (Thomas Gideon) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Glorian first appeared in Fantastic Four vol. 1, #135 (June 1973), and was created by Gerry Conway and John Buscema.
Thomas Gideon, son of billionaire Gregory Gideon and his wife Claire, was born in Rochester, New York. Thomas' father concocted a scheme to defeat the Fantastic Four within one week. As a result of Gregory Gideon's machinations, Thomas and the Thing were accidentally trapped in Gregory Gideon's time machine. They were returned to the present, and Thomas reconciled with his father.
Years later, Thomas was aboard a private jet aircraft with his parents when it was caught in the heat-pulse and blast wave of a Russian nuclear weapon test. The plane crashed, killing all but Thomas and his father. Picked up by a Russian trawler, the two Gideons were eventually hospitalized. There they were told that they were dying of radiation poisoning. The elder Gideon spent his remaining months designing a device to tap the mutated genes of the hero team Fantastic Four which he believed would somehow reverse his cellular decay and that of his son at the expense of the Fantastic Four's lives. His selfish scheme was thwarted by the hero team, and the elder Gideon was killed when his pawn, the robot Dragon Man, broke free of his control. In the midst of the wreckage appeared the alien Shaper of Worlds, attracted to the site by the dreams of one of Gideon's henchmen. Though the henchman's dreams proved inadequate, the Shaper took Thomas Gideon, cured him of his radiation poisoning, and took Thomas as his apprentice dream-shaper, to undertake learning the Shaper's skills.
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