The Glob
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Real Name: Joe Timms/Sumner Beckwith
First Appearance:The Incredible Hulk #121, The Incredible Hulk #389
Origin:The Incredible Hulk #121/The Incredible Hulk #389
Powers/Abilities: Super-human strength-able to keep his own against
the Hulk. The Glob's body is not completely solid and allows fists
to pass into it. If it's body is broken into pieces, the Glob is able
to reform it's body.
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Origin: Joe Timms was an escaped convict who drowned in swampy water
while trying to outrun the prison guards. Years later, a barrel of
radioactive waster brought him back to life as the Glob./Sumner Beckwith,
a scientist, tries to recreate the super-soldier formula that Ted
Sallis(the Man-Thing) was working on. He tries the experimental formula
on himself and changes into the new Glob.
GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY
The Incredible Hulk #121: The Hulk is walking through a swampy
area and comes across a storage cabin full of barrels of radioactive
waste. He throws one into a swamp which leaks and causes the Glob
to be born. The Glob walks to the local military base and remembers
back to a time when a man was in prison. The man received a letter
from the only woman he loved saying that she was dying. He was denied
a release to see her so he escaped into the bogs. He was chased and
eventually walked into a spot of the swamp where he was pulled down
into it. The Glob walks onto the base and finds the house with Betty
in it and confusing Betty with his lost love, he kidnaps her. The
Hulk sees him and tries to stop him. The two fight and the Glob manages
to beat down the Hulk. The Glob grabs Betty and starts to walk into
the radioactive part of the swamp where he was born. The swamp starts
to dissolve him and the Glob holds Betty above his head. The Hulk
climbs on a tree and manages to grab Betty just in time as the Glob
dissolves away.
The Incredible Hulk #129: The Leader
changes himself into his human form and tricks Bruce into telling
him who some of his greatest foes where which include the Glob. The
Leader goes and submits the radioactive
swamp water to radiation and recreates the Glob. The Leader
implants an image into the Globs mind of the Hulk hurting the woman
he cares about. The Leader also gives
the Glob the ability to find the Hulk no matter where he is. Later,
Bruce is riding a raft through a sewer when the Glob catches up with
him. Bruce changes into the Hulk and fights the Glob. The Hulk gets
frustrated since his blows don't hurt the Glob. Even fire doesn't
stop the Glob. They fight long and hard and the Hulk eventually climbs
an electrical tower followed by the Glob. The Hulk grabs a live wire
and shocks the Glob who falls and lands on a dynamo, exploding. The
last scene shows bits and pieces of the Glob slowly starting to move
towards another, reforming.
Giant-Size Man-Thing #1: In the swamps of the Everglades, an
Entropy Cult holds the brain of the former Glob in a globe. The Man-Thing
senses that the brain holds evil, so he tries to destroy it. The cult
uses the brain and brings to life an electrical manifistation of the
former Glob. This electric Glob fights the Man-Thing until the Man-Thing
causes the Glob to short circuit. The brain explodes in the glboe
and drops into quicksand. The brain thinks back to his former life
as Joe Timms and as the Glob and decides it wants a body again. The
brain jumps out of the quicksand and forms a body out of clay. The
energy it took to form the body robs the brain of its memories and
he walks off into the swamp. He is found by some scientists and other
people setting up an experimental ecological community within the
swamp and taken in. The leader of the Entropy cult explains to the
other members how he found the brain after the fight with the Hulk
and kept it alive by imbedding it with a part of himself. The cult
leader tracks down the man formerly as the Glob, takes control of
his mind and de-evolves him into a mud-clay like version of the Glob.
He orders the new Glob to destroy the community. The Man-Thing comes
and the two creatures fight. The Man-Thing eventually rips the Glob
apart from the inside leaving a mud puddle on the ground. The leader
of the cult rushes over to the pile and commands the Glob to come
back alive. The clay starts to move and encompasses the leader totally,
killing him.
The Incredible Hulk #198: The Hulk is going through the Everglades
and stumbles across the ecological society experiments and the dead
body of the Entropy Cult leader. The Hulk lays down and falls asleep
and reverts back to Bruce. Bruce wakes up and finds a blond man watching
him and chases him down. The man can't talk and Bruce explains that
he is a friend. Bruce and the man are attacked by pirates and forces
Bruce to turn into the Hulk. The Hulk defeats the pirates and then
the Collector appears, causing fear in the blond-haired man. The Collector
presents the Man-Thing, who he has taken control of, and sends him
against the Hulk. While the two are fighting, the Collector hits the
man with a ray from his staff and turns him back into the Glob. He
explains how he found the golden brain at the community. He commands
the Glob to join the fight and the combined forces of the Man-Thing
and Glob are too much for the Hulk to take and he is knocked unconscious.
The Incredible Hulk #199: The Collector takes the unconscious
Hulk and puts him in the Everglades exhibit on his ship along with
the Man-Thing and Glob. The Hulk reverts back to Bruce and he easily
takes off the shackle on his leg and leaves the exhibit to explore
the ship. The Man-Thing and Glob rip off the shackle with no problem
since their bodies have no substance and they leave the exhibit also.
The Hulk fights the Collector and his army but defeats them and breaks
the equipment holding all the other exhibits captive. While everybody
is escaping, including the Hulk, the Glob goes to take revenge on
the Collector.
The Incredible Hulk #389: The Hulk and Rick Jones go looking
in the Everglade swamp lands for a missing Pantheon scientist, Sumner
Beckwith, who was working on a cancer cure and then disappeared. Rick
goes in one direction and saves a girl from the Man-Thing. The Hulk
stumbles across a shack which contains Beckwith's diary explaing how
he was trying to recreate Ted Sallis's super soldier formula. In the
diary, he tells how he tested the serum on himself and that something
went wrong and changed him. Two other teenagers run across the Glob
and he kills them. Rick and the girl he saved run into more of her
friends who knock Rick out and tie him to a try to lure the swamp
monster out. The Glob comes and starts to kill Rick when the Man-Thing
saves him. Then the Hulk appears and fights the Glob and starts to
defeat him. The Glob gets scared which causes the Man-Thing to touch
him and burn him into nothing.
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