Glob (comics)
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Glob is the name of multiple fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe.
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[edit] Joseph "Joe" Timms
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #121 (Nov 1969) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas and Herb Trimpe |
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| Alter ego | Joseph Timms |
| Team affiliations | S.H.I.E.L.D. Paranormal Containment Unit |
| Notable aliases | The Golden Brain |
Glob (Joseph "Joe" Timms) is a fictional monster character from the Marvel Universe who first appeared in Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #121.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Joe Timms was born in Miami, Florida. Timms was a petty criminal and an escaped convict who drowned in a swamp bog following his escape. Timms was transformed by radioactive waste into a strange slime-like shambling monster, named Glob, with superhuman strength but with very little intelligence. He menaced Betty Ross, and battled the Hulk. He was destroyed by an experimental anti-radiation fluid in the swamp waters.[1] Shortly thereafter, he was resurrected by the Leader, who sent him against the Hulk. The Glob was blown into fragments by an explosion.[2]
The Glob's brain later reformed into the Golden Brain. It was used as a weapon by Yagzan and the crazed Cult of Entropists, but was lost by the Entropists in an encounter with the Man-Thing. The Golden Brain psionically molded itself into an amnesiac blond haired man. The man was later captured and mutated by Yagzan into a clay form version of Glob. It battled the Man-Thing and was reduced to clay again, which smothered Yagzan.[3]
However, it was later revealed that the Glob was enslaved by the Collector and eventually rebelled against him with assistance of the Hulk and Man-Thing.
He was then taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody where Glob was recruited in that organization's Paramormal Containment Unit.
[edit] Sumner Samuel Beckwith
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #389 (Jan 1992) |
| Created by | Tom Field and Gary Barker |
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| Alter ego | Sumner Samuel Beckwith |
| Team affiliations | Pantheon |
[edit] Fictional character biography
Sumner Samuel Beckwith was a geneticist working for the Pantheon who injected himself with an experimental super soldier serum which turned out to be defective. He transformed into a light-green semi-humanoid being seemingly composed of bog matter, and became the second Glob. It fled to the Florida Everglades, and menaced Rick Jones and battled the Hulk. It was apparently incinerated by the Man-Thing's touch [4]
[edit] Powers and abilities
Both Globs were monstrous creatures that resembled a semi-solid mass of slime and bog-matter, with superhuman strength, stamina, and durability, though both were limited in intelligence and reflexes.
Joe Timms became the Glob due to exposure to radioactive waste in a swamp bog. As the Golden Brain, he had the ability to materialize a powerful electrically charged duplicate of the Glob, and the ability to recreate itself as a humanoid.
Sumner Beckwith became the Glob when he was injected with an experimental version of the Super-Soldier Serum. Before his transformation, he had earned a Ph.D. in genetics and was a skilled geneticist.
[edit] Other characters named Glob
There have been two other characters known as Glob in the Marvel Universe. These include:
- Glop, who was also known as Glob in Journey into Mystery vol. 1 #72.
- Glob Herman, a student at the Xavier Institute.
[edit] Bibliography
- Giant-Size Man-Thing #1
- Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #121, 129, 197-199
- Nick Fury's Howling Commandos #1-6
- Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #4
[edit] As Golden Brain
- Giant-Size Man-Thing #1
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/globtimmshulk.htm
- http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/globbeckwith.htm
