Nekra
| Nekra | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Shanna the She-Devil #5 (Aug 1973) |
| Created by |
Steve Gerber (writer) Ross Andru (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Nekra Sinclair |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations |
Lethal Legion Black Spectre |
| Partnerships | Mandrill |
| Notable aliases | Adrienne Hatros |
| Abilities | Hate and rage build superhuman power and invulnerability Magical knowledge and skills for creating zombies, fangs and claws |
Nekra is a fictional mutant supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Steve Gerber and Ross Andru for the 1973 comic book Shanna the She-Devil.
Nekra first appeared in Shanna the She-Devil #5 (August 1973), and was created by Steve Gerber and Ross Andru.
The character subsequently appears in Marvel Two-In-One #3 (May 1974), Daredevil #109-112 (May–August 1974), Spider-Woman #13-16 (June–July 1979), #50 (June 1983), West Coast Avengers #2 (October 1985), The Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1-2 (October–November 1985), #12 (September 1986), Web of Spider-Man #46 (January 1989), Alpha Flight #79-80 (December 1989-January 1990), Avengers Spotlight #29 (February 1990), Avengers West Coast #65 (December 1990), and the graphic novel Avengers: Death Trap, the Vault (1991). The character does not appear for several years after that, until she reappeared in Witches #1 (August 2004), and The Loners #1 (June 2007), and #4-5 (September–October 2007).
Nekra received an entry in the original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #8, and in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #9, and the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #8 (2006).
Decades ago, Gemma Sinclair was an African-American cleaning lady at Los Alamos National Laboratory. An exploding lab experiment bombards Gemma with radiation, causing her future child to be born a mutant. Nekra is born with fangs and white skin, but is not an albino. Loathed by her parents and community, Nekra runs away into the New Mexico desert to live alone when she is fourteen years old.
She soon encounters by chance another child who has been mutated by the same explosion. Although his parents were white, he had been born dark-skinned and had developed fur and baboon-like features, for which he had named himself Mandrill. For six years they live by theft and scavenging, until they are attacked by a lynch mob that thought they were monsters. While filled with rage, Nekra discovers she is invulnerable to the mob's attacks. Slaying a few of their persecutors, the two escape and come to regard each other as if they were siblings.
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