Unicorn (comics)

Unicorn
The Unicorn as featured on the cover of Iron Man #154 (Jan. 1981). Art by Bob Layton].
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Tales of Suspense #56 (Aug. 1964)
Created by	Stan Lee (Writer) Don Heck (Artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Milos Masaryk
Team affiliations	Maggia KGB
Partnerships	Count Nefaria Red Ghost Titanium Man Mandarin
Notable aliases	Uncanny Unicorn
Abilities	Formidable hand-to-hand combatant and marksman Highly proficient in the use of knives Superhuman strength and endurance via radiation treatments Flight via rocket belt High-level resistance to injury Energy projection, force field generation and magnetic levitation via emitter on brow of suit

Unicorn is the codename of multiple fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The first Unicorn (Milos Masaryk) debuted in Tales of Suspense #56 (Aug. 1964) and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck.

Milos Masaryk was a Soviet intelligence agent assigned to track down the original Crimson Dynamo, who defects to America. Wearing technology designed by the Dynamo, Masaryk gives himself the alias the "Unicorn" and battles Iron Man. The Unicorn was among the villains affected by Doctor Doom's high-frequency emotion charger, who was compelled to attack the Fantastic Four at the wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm.

The Unicorn later allies himself with Count Nefaria. He then undergoes experimental conditioning to augment his powers. With increased strength, he battles Iron Man once more after attempting to extort money from the U.S. Congress, but he is again defeated. The process leaves the Unicorn with "accelerated cellular deterioration", and he is taunted with a cure by the villainous Red Ghost in exchange for help against Iron Man. However, once it becomes evident that the Red Ghost has lied, the Unicorn aids Iron Man and later escapes.

The villain the Mandarin makes a similar promise to the Unicorn and deploys him against Iron Man. On two more separate occasions, Unicorn's battle with Iron Man ends in Unicorn's defeat. In the first instance, the Mandarin's consciousness becomes entrapped in the Unicorn's body, but the Mandarin's mind is later freed from the Unicorn's body. Using the alias "The Other", the Titanium Man uses the Unicorn against Iron Man who is finally able to capture Masaryk. In a dramatic turn, the very moment of his capture sees Masaryk slip into a life-threatening coma. Iron Man takes Masaryk to the Avengers Mansion where teammate Yellowjacket wakes Masaryk and cures him of his debilitating disease. The process has the result of driving Masaryk insane, and a disorientated Unicorn inadvertently activates the hidden robot Arsenal. The Unicorn is stunned by the robot — which Iron Man drives off — and then placed in stasis pending a cure for his mental illness.