Master Menace
Master Menace is a
Master Menace is an analogue of
Publication history
Master Menace first appeared in Thor #280 (Feb. 1979), and was created by Roy Thomas and Wayne Boring.
Fictional character biography
Squadron Supreme
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Powered armor Various weapons |
Originally, Hyperion encountered Dr.
On this occasion, Burbank works with the evil Hyperion of the mainstream Marvel Universe Earth-616, and imprisons the visiting Thor. Burbank is taken captive but later found himself in an interdimensional vacuum as he attempted to escape confinement.[volume & issue needed]
When the Squadron are rebuilding America after the devastation caused by the
In Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe, Emil Burbank ages fifteen years after going into the 41st century with Scarlet Centurion to build a device to stop the Nth Man.[volume & issue needed]
In Squadron Supreme: New World Order, Emil Burbank is an old man at the mercy of large, multi-national corporations and using the Squadron's own Utopia technologies.[volume & issue needed]
Supreme Power
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Abilities | Superhuman intelligence |
Emil Burbank is a man with many aliases and possibly the greatest intellect on the planet. He has doctoral degrees in biology, chemistry, metallurgy, psychology, economics and literature from three different universities. As a child, he sexually abused his older sister by drugging her unconscious with chemical compounds, eventually leaving her in a permanent catatonic state. At 18, his parents died in a car accident, which he arranged and boasts about even while trying to say it was an accident. Emil is noted for malicious and homicidal retribution against those he feels have wronged him. A school bully and a professor who accused him of cheating were both caught in fires started by Emil.[volume & issue needed]
After Emil agrees to work for the government, General Alexander sends Emil,
Emil was to be on the
The team is sent to
On a mission codenamed "Long Walk", to take down insurgents of the Ilam Province in Iran, Emil developed technology that disrupts the functionings of the inner ear, incapacitating the soldiers, who Emil then proceeded to shoot. After Edith Freiberg found a little girl whose mother had been stoned by relatives for the perceived dishonor of being raped, Edith, using Emil Burbank as a translator, finds the relatives and buries them up to their necks. She then gives the girl a steel bar with which to kill them. After "Long Walk", Emil Burbank is at the conference to act as a bodyguard.[3]
Powers and abilities
Emil Burbank was recruited to the Squadron because he was tested by the military and found to have been exposed to the
Though not displaying any physical super powers, Emil demonstrates that he can defend himself in combat situations by the use of certain types of technology.[4]