Quasar (comics)
| Quasar | |
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Wendell Vaughn and Phyla-Vell, both versions of Quasar
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain America #217 (January 1978) |
| Created by |
Don Glut, Roy Thomas (writers) John Buscema (art) |
| Characters |
Sh'iar imperial guardsman Wendell Elvis Vaughn Phyla-Vell Richard Rider Avril Kincaid |
| Quasar | |
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Quasar #1 (Oct, 1989). Featuring the Wendell Vaughn version of the character. Art by Paul Ryan. |
| Series publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | October 1989 – July 1994 |
| Number of issues | 60 |
| Main character(s) | Wendell Vaughn |
Quasar is the name of several fictional superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe.
Avril Kincaid is a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent who debuted during the Avengers: Standoff! storyline. While working at Pleasant Hill, a gated community holding super villains brainwashed by Kobik, Avril ran a daycare center as her cover. When Baron Helmut Zemo and Fixer started a riot after regaining their memories, Kincaid was attacked by the Blood Brothers, but was saved by Captain America and Winter Soldier. After Captain America shuts down the security system at the Pleasant Hill Museum, Kincaid enters it in order to obtain a specific item, and encounters the curator, a retired Wendell Vaughn. As part of a contingency plan if S.H.I.E.L.D. ever lost control of Kobik, Vaughn gives the Quantum Bands to Kincaid. In the aftermath of the events that transpired at Pleasant Hill, Kincaid becomes the new Quasar with Vaughn acting as her mentor.
Quasar's powers are derived from the pair of Quantum Bands fused to his wrists (or more specifically, from the seven gems on each of the bands). Quasar's Quantum Bands are permanently affixed to his wrists; while he can make light bend around them so they appear to be invisible, they are still tangible. They are linked to their wearer's nervous system and grant tremendous powers of energy manipulation. The wrist-bands were originally created by Eon to be worn by his designated Protector of the Universe. These alien artifacts are composed of unknown materials. The Quantum Bands were discovered by the Uranian Eternals in a weapons depot left by the alien Kree and brought to Earth by the deluded Crusader that believed himself to be the 1950s Marvel Boy.
Foremost amongst these powers is the ability to tap into a limitless energy source called the Quantum Zone. Quasar can project quantum energy in the form of devastating beams of force or heat, but Vaughn more commonly employed them to fashion incredibly durable constructs of solid energy, such as containment spheres or pincers. He protected himself with a personal force field of quantum energy.
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