Xemnu

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Xemnu the Titan

Comic book panel, Sensational She-Hulk #6.

Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Journey into Mystery #62 (Nov 1960)
Created by	Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Characteristics
Alter ego	Xemnu
Species	Unknown extraterrestrial
Notable aliases	Xemnu the Titan, Xemnu the Hulk, Richmond Wagner, Amos Moses
Abilities	Vast superhuman strength and endurance, Telepathy, Telekinesis^[1]

Xemnu the Titan, also known as Xemnu the Hulk, is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. Xemnu is an alien who has attempted to conquer the Earth several times. He first appeared in Journey into Mystery #62 (November 1960). He was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

[edit] Character history

Xemnu first appeared on Earth when his starship crash-landed on Earth after running out of fuel^[2]. When revived by the human Joe Harper, Xemnu revealed that he was a criminal who had been exiled into space for crimes against the rest of the universe^[2]. Xemnu then used telepathy to dominate Harper's mind and then the minds of every other human on Earth^[2]. He forced them to build him a new starship so that he could return home^[2]. As he departed, he released Harper from his telepathic domination. Harper sabotaged the ship's electrical systems, shocking Xemnu into a coma-like state. As the alien flew off, his mind control faded, and his former servants forgot that he had ever existed. Xemnu used telekinesis to direct an asteroid to strike his ship so that it would be knocked onto a course back to Earth. After crashing down on Earth a second time, the weakened Xemnu was taken into a circus sideshow. As he took control of the town where the circus was located, Joe Harper followed Xemnu's trail and confronted the alien. Xemnu attempted to disintegrate Harper, but Harper used a mirror to reflect the alien's psychic power back at it, and Xemnu's body was destroyed.

Xemnu then traveled through space in a non-corporeal form, and over the years learned that his home planet had been wiped out by a plague. He returned to Earth, possessing the body of an astronaut to gain a physical form. When the space shuttle arrived on Earth, Xemnu used his human host's popularity and his own telepathy to become the host of a children's television series. He used his mental power to place Earth's children under his thrall, only to be detected by Doctor Strange. Strange and his ally Namor the Sub-Mariner were defeated by the alien, but Xemnu was in turn beaten by the Hulk. When Xemnu took possession of Amos Moses, a small-town mayor, the newly-formed Defenders (Doctor Strange, the Hulk, the Sub-Mariner and the Valkyrie) fought him, thus preventing him from using the townspeople to construct another starship. Xemnu continued his vendetta against the Hulk via a series of robots built in the likenesses of other alien monsters^[3], and later used Amos Moses' body in an attempt to once again take control of the Earth via television-transmitted hypnosis. Xemnu was defeated in this latter scheme by the Los Angeles-based hero Wonder Man and his ally, the Thing. Later, Xemnu fought the She-Hulk several times, and became obsessed with making her his mate and/or his slave^[4]^[5].

Xemnu reappeared as one of Space Phantom's kidnapped bodies in Beyond!.

[edit] References

^ Xemnu the Titan, Comic Book Database, retrieved 04/05/2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Journey into Mystery", Marvel Comics, (November 1960), Issue 62., Editor: Stan Lee, Reprinted: Marvel Monsters: Devil Dinosaur (2005) #1 Summary
^ The Marvel Phile, James Lowder, Dragon Magazine, P.34.
^ "Star Truck", Sensational She Hulk, Marvel Comics, Issue 6., (October 1989)
^ "I Have No Mouth and I am Mean", Sensational She Hulk, Marvel Comics, Issue 7., (November 1989)