Porcupine (comics)
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Tales to Astonish #48 (October 1963) |
| Created by |
Stan Lee (Writer) Don Heck (Artist) |
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| Alter ego | Alexander Gentry |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations |
United States Army Lethal Legion Maggia |
| Abilities | Skilled automotive mechanic Porcupine suit grants: Enhanced strength and durability Razor-tipped quill-like surface Short-distance flight via belt jets Wide variety of offensive and defensive weapons |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daughters of the Dragon #3 (May, 2006) |
| Created by |
Justin Gray Jimmy Palmiotti Khari Evans |
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| Alter ego | Roger Gocking |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations | Thunderbolts |
| Abilities | Porcupine suit grants: Minimal resistance to injury Helmet with a 6 hour air supply and night vision lenses Flight via boot jets Ability to fire 3 bombs/knock out gas bombs at once |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | District X #13 (August, 2005) |
| Created by | David Hine |
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| Alter ego | William Nathaniel Bates |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Abilities | Offensive morphing power grants: Ability to sprout retractable razor tipped spikes from his face, body and right arm, fire them as projectile bolts and distort his left arm into a misshapen, extended form with elongated fingers and claws |
Porcupine is the name used by three fictional characters in Marvel Comics.
The first Porcupine first appeared in Tales to Astonish #48 (October 1963), and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck.
The second Porcupine first appeared in Daughters of the Dragon #3 and was created by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Khari Evans.
Alexander Gentry was originally a scientist who worked as a weapons designer for the United States Army. He conceived the idea of designing a battle-suit in imitation of a porcupine: it would be covered with quill-like projections for defense. Moreover, it would be able to shoot its quills, or gases, flames, chemicals, paralysis-inducing pellets, or weapons from quill-like tubes, at an opponent. Gentry spends months working overtime to create his porcupine battle-suit. He is proud of his achievement when the suit was finished, and believes his invention is worth a fortune. Yet Gentry also believes that the government would pay him, one of its employees, virtually nothing for his creation. Angrily, Gentry decides to keep the porcupine battle-suit and to use it to become wealthy through crime. Thus Gentry became the Porcupine, one of the first costumed professional criminals of his generation.
Hank Pym, who was then the original Ant-Man, and his partner, Janet van Dyne, the Wasp, soon defeat the Porcupine while he attempted to rob a bank. However, the Porcupine succeeds in escaping. After Pym had also assumed the superhuman powers and identity of Giant-Man, Porcupine returns for revenge. During the resulting battle, the Porcupine consumes what he thinks is a Giant-Man growth medium, but which instead shrinks him to microscopic size.
Eventually, however, the capsules' effect wore off, and the Porcupine, again at his normal size, is among the many costumed menaces assembled by Doctor Doom to disrupt the wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm.
His self-confidence still shaken by his failures in battling Giant-Man and the Wasp, the Porcupine eagerly accepts the invitation of Count Nefaria, a powerful figure in the criminal Maggia, to join his group of costumed agents. Among Nefaria's agents are the original Eel, the Plantman, the Unicorn, and the Scarecrow, with all of whom the Porcupine would ally himself in the future as well. The Porcupine and the other costumed agents aid Count Nefaria in his attempt to hold much of Washington D.C. for ransom. However, the original X-Men thwarted Nefaria and his agents. Once again, the Porcupine succeeds in escaping being taken prisoner, and he blames the failure of the blackmail scheme on Nefaria and the other agents. Gentry comes to suspect that in fact, he himself was inadequate for the role of being a "super-villain" battling superhuman opponents.
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