| Solarr | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain America #160 (Apr 1973) |
| Created by | Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Silas King |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | Emissaries of Evil |
Solarr is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.
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Silas King was born in Carson City, Nevada. He was a latent Mutant who worked as a smuggler of illicit narcotics. On a drug run from New York City to Los Angeles, his van broke down in the Mojave Desert. Trying to make his way back to civilization, King spent several days out in the desert sun, which catalyzed his latent mutation. While recovering from sunstroke and dehydration in the hospital, he realized he could discharge the solar energy he had stored as heat blasts.
Calling himself Solarr, he began a criminal career in New York City by starting with bank robbery. This activity brought him into partnership with Klaw, and membership in the Emissaries of Evil led by Egghead. He repeatedly met defeat, and was eventually captured and imprisoned at the Project: Pegasus research center in New York State, where scientists studied his powers.
One of the other captives and subjects for study at Project: Pegasus was Bres, a member of the otherdimensional Fomor. Bres began to use his powers to manipulate the staff at the facility, and caused a guard named Harry Winslow to die of heart failure. Bres also freed Solarr from his cell. Solarr hated Winslow, and when he found his corpse he incinerated it. Bres used his magic to animate the charred corpse, which killed Solarr.
Solarr was a Mutant with the ability to absorb, store, and manipulate large amounts of energy from light, especially direct sunlight.
Solarr appears in the X-Men Animated Series episode "Secrets, Not Long Buried" as the leader of the mutant-supremacist Children of the Shadow and ruler of the mutant and human cohabitation community, Skull Mesa, founded by Taylor Prescott. He's aided by Toad and Chet, a mutant with phasing powers (an original character). In the episode his true name is not Silas King but Bill Braddock.