Super-Agents under the combat tutelage of Sam Wilson, AKA Falcon (later Captain America), Marvel Man briefly moonlights as a member of the fractious Defenders super-team, but he quits their ranks after only a day. Teamed with Don Thomas, AKA Blue Streak, Drew Daniels, AKA Texas Twister, and Denise Baranger, AKA Vamp, as the S.H.I.E.L.D. Initially adopting the name and costume of Marvel Boy in tribute to the seemingly deceased Grayson, Wendell soon renames himself Marvel Man. super-operative under his father’s scientific supervision. With his new powers, Wendell trains as a S.H.I.E.L.D. Ironically, his lack of a killer instinct saves his life. As the energy abated, Wendell realizes the secret of safely controlling the quantum power was to relax and go with the flow of the energy rather than resisting. In the process, he builds up an energy charge that seems certain to disintegrate him like the others, so he flies up to the edge of outer space and awaits the blast, resigned to his fate and trying to avoid hurting anyone else. Intending to protect the bands at all costs, Wendell dons them despite his father’s warnings and defeats the A.I.M. Minutes later, an A.I.M., assault team invades the facility to claim the bands. While Wesley quickly masters the bands’ basic functions, he cannot halt their escalating power buildup realizing too late that the bands could not be removed once they had bonded with a wearer, Wesley panics and disintegrates. When Wendell receives a security detail assignment for the Quantum Band research project at Stark International’s Pittsburgh facility, he attends the first test of the bands, observing daredevil test pilot William Wesley try them on for size. Stanley Zane was secretly a spy for the subversive organization Advanced Idea Mechanics ( A.I.M.). hired a research team-assembled by wealthy industrialist Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man, and led by Gilbert Vaughn-to study the bands however, project participant Dr. Unable to control the bands, the Crusader ultimately disintegrated himself in battle with the Fantastic Four, who turned the bands over to S.H.I.E.L.D. The bands had come into the possession of the Crusader, a mentally unstable duplicate of 1950s hero Robert Grayson, AKA Marvel Boy, created by the Uranian Eternals.
Eon’s latest appointed Protector of the Universe had been the legendary Kree warrior Mar-Vell, AKA Captain Marvel, but the Quantum Bands had gone missing and Mar-Vell never had a chance to wield them before he died of cancer. Each of these champions had been selected by Eon to serve as Protector of the Universe, chosen for their intelligence, courage and resourcefulness.
QUASAR TATTOO SERIES
obtains the Quantum Bands, ancient extraterrestrial energy weapons usually worn as bracelets.įor most of the past eight billion years, the Quantum Bands had been wielded by a series of champions serving Eon, an Eternity-spawned cosmic being charged with ensuring the perpetuation of life in the universe. Vaughn’s destiny takes a strange turn when S.H.I.E.L.D. Crushed, Wendell resigns himself to a future of desk jobs and minor support work. and gets top marks at their academy, but is told he lacks the aggressive qualities required in a top field agent. Leaving the Army, he joins the elite intelligence agency S.H.I.E.L.D. Seeking structure and purpose, Vaughn enlists in the United States Army and rises to the rank of lieutenant, but he feels uneasy as a soldier and his superiors eventually tell him he lacks the killer instinct necessary in a fully successful military man. This dysfunctional father-son relationship fuels Wendell’s self-esteem issues and occasional fits of depression, which plague him well into adulthood. Though Wendell lives with his mother and his sister Gayle, he never stops trying to please his often-absent father, forever seeking some glimmer of affection or approval. His workaholic aloofness eventually leads Lisa to divorce him. His father, brilliant physicist Gilbert Vaughn, is an outwardly cold man who has difficulty showing emotion, even with his family. Known as Quasar, he defends the Earth and the cosmos, and is quick to put his own life on the line if it means saving others.īorn in Wisconsin, Wendell Elvis Vaughn grows up there, where his mother Lisa still works as a librarian. The Protector of the Universe, Wendell Vaughn, wields great power through his cosmically- empowered Quantum Bands.
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