Ruby Thursday

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Ruby Thursday

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Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Defenders #32 (February 1976)
Created by Steve Gerber
Sal Buscema
Jim Mooney
In story information
Alter ego Thursday Rubinstein
Team affiliations Headmen
A.I.M.
Circus of Crime
Abilities artificial red plastic head, able to shape into any form, project energy blasts

Ruby Thursday (Thursday Rubinstein) a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe and a member of the Headmen. She first appeared in Defenders #32 and was created by Steve Gerber, Sal Buscema and Jim Mooney.

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[edit] Fictional character biography

Thursday was a scientist who grafts an organic computer to her head composed of malleable plastic that can assume any form she wills it to. She ran for President of the United States, but is forced to drop out by the superhero team known as the Defenders. She later indirectly causes the death of Omega the Unknown when he was considered by police to be assaulting her in her car.

The police were unaware of her previous actions, including killing people with a large purple creature called Dibbuk (named after, but unrelated to a dybbuk).

The confrontration with Omega leads Ruby into another fight with the Defenders. This ended when her head was smashed open. It is not known how Ruby survived this damage.

Ruby, now with a much smaller head, later participates in the plan to gain her ally Chondu a new body. Specifically, the body of a clone of She-Hulk. The Headmen hire the Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime, then later Mysterio in order to test She-Hulk for compatability. She is subdued and cloned, but escapes with the aid of Spider-Man. Ruby is arrested by the New York city police.

The assassin Bullseye is hired to kill Ruby. He throws the Rolling Stones album Flashpoint (which contains the song Ruby Tuesday) into her chest. The Answer, her boyfriend, saves her head after Bullseye leaves in hopes of reviving her later.[1]

[edit] Civil War

Ruby later is involved in a high speed 'chase' through the streets of Manhattan. The super-heroine Hellcat ends up clinging to her bumper. Ruby uses her malleable head to fire a gun at Hellcat during the pursuit. The fight is ended with the intervention of She-Hulk and her allies. She-Hulk does not actually go for Ruby, she takes down Hellcat first for being an unlicensed superhero. The results of Ruby's rampage are shown; cars are shot up, people traumatized and a cab had ended up through the front window of a bookstore. Ruby herself is subdued by the weaponry of Two-Gun Kid, a licensed bounty hunter for the state of New York.[2]

Ruby and the Headmen then fought the Heroes For Hire while attempting to transplant Chondu's head onto Humbug's body.[3]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] References

  1. ^ I ♥ Marvel: Outlaw Love
  2. ^ She-Hulk #10, Oct. 2006
  3. ^ Heroes For Hire #6-8

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