Nebulon (comics)

Nebulon
Cover to Defenders vol. 1 #34
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Defenders #13 (May 1974)
Created by	Len Wein and Sal Buscema
In-story information
Species	Ul'lula'n
Team affiliations	Former leader of the Celestial Mind Control Movement
Notable aliases	The Celestial Man, Mr. Nebul, Dorma

Nebulon is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Nebulon is an Ul'lula'n, a race of six-tentacled, finned, water-breathing extraterrestrials about 10 feet (3.0 m) in length. He was one of a number of Ul'lula'ns dispatched to locate and secure worlds with the mineral resources that they had depleted on their own home-world of Ul'ula in the Ul system, in the Milky Way galaxy. He took on a glistening, golden humanoid form in an attempt to blend with Earth's human population. Happening upon the evil Hyperion of the Squadron Sinister who was trapped in space, Nebulon rescued him. Hyperion led the alien back to Earth to let him have it. Nebulon helped Hyperion gather the other Squadron Sinister members to build a laser cannon that would melt the polar ice caps and flood the planet, making it perfectly suitable to the Ul'lula'ns.

Nighthawk, a former Squadron Sinister member, had been coerced into helping with this plan. He contacted the Defenders, who traveled to the North Pole and fought the Squadron Sinister. During the course of the battle, Nebulon expended so much energy that he lost control of his humanoid form and reverted to his monstrous form; Nighthawk took advantage of the confusion this caused among Nebulon's allies and turned the laser cannon on Nebulon, causing him to seemingly implode.

In reality, Nebulon retreated to another dimension called Zaar, inhabited by the Ludberdites. Nebulon adopted their philosophy of improving the lives of "lesser" beings, and returned to Earth to save its people from themselves. In the guise of "Mr. Nebul," he started a movement called Celestial Mind Control which promised to liberate the powers of the human mind, but actually robbed people of their free will. Nebulon recruited the Porcupine, the original Eel, and a Plantman simulacrum as his agents. The Defenders became aware of this movement and tried to stop him. However, he exiled the Defenders to another dimension. At the same time as Nebulon's movement, the Headmen were attempting a similar movement. Nebulon engaged in battle with the Defenders and the Headmen. When the Defenders exposed the Headmen's political machinations, they managed to convince Nebulon of the futility of his goal, and Doctor Strange persuaded him to leave Earth.