Moses Magnum

Moses Magnum
Moses Magnum in court; art by Stephen Segovia and Marte Garcia
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Giant-Size Spider-Man #4 (Apr 1975)
Created by	Gerry Conway (Writer) Ross Andru (Artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Moses Magnum
Abilities	Releasing seismic energy through his fingertips, using it to create earthquakes, shockwaves or otherwise transport earth matter.

Moses Magnum is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an arms dealer and terrorist.

Moses Magnum first appeared in Giant-Size Spider-Man #4 (April 1975), and was created by Gerry Conway and Ross Andru.

The character subsequently appears in Power Man Annual #1 (1976), The Uncanny X-Men #118-119 (February–March 1979), Marvel Tales #212-213 (June–July 1988), Classic X-Men #25 (September 1988), Deathlok #11 (May 1992), #22-25 (April–July 1993), The Avengers #8-9 (September–October 1998), and Exiles #26-27 (July 2003).

Moses Magnum received an entry in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #6 (2006).

Magnum was born in Ethiopia, but sided with Benito Mussolini's occupying army against his own people. Magnum later became a naturalized American citizen.

He became president of the Deterrence Research Corporation (or DRC), the world's foremost independent weapons manufacturing firm. As an arms expert, Magnum battled Spider-Man and the Punisher. Magnum surprisingly survived after the Punisher exposed him to chemical weapons. Then, he seemingly fell to his death after a battle with Luke Cage. However, Magnum was rescued by Apocalypse and granted superhuman powers which Magnum dubbed his "Magnum Force." His powers included superhuman strength and geologically-based powers to cause earthquakes and sense disruptions in the Earth.

Tyrannus and his allies, They Who Wield Power, secretly gave Magnum technology which enhanced his superhuman strength and the power to focus vast amounts of energy so as to trigger earthquakes. Magnum next threatened to create earthquakes to sink Japan unless he was named the nation's ruler. His plan was foiled by an assault by the X-Men and Sunfire on Magnum's Kuril Islands headquarters. Banshee disrupted Magnum's earthquake beam, but suffered a long-term loss of his own sonic powers in the process.