Cyclone (comics)

Cyclone is a comic strip character capable of manipulating the wind.

The Golden Age Cyclones

The first Cyclone was a character published by Quality in National Comics #1. Founded by printer Everett M.Arnold in 1939, Quality Comics published a large number of titles during the 1940s. Arnold launched the company with Feature Funnies, which he had bought from another company, but this was soon joined by several additional titles, becoming one of the more prominent wartime comics groups. A second character with the same name was published by Nita Publications, in Whirlwind #1, June 1940.

Marvel's Cyclone

Cyclone I

The first time Marvel used a character with the name Cyclone was in 'Amazing Spider-Man #143 published April 1975.

Background Formerly an engineer for NATO, Cyclone had a falling out with his former employees, supposedly related to political decisions over implementing his research, based on the development of a wind-generating weapon. Cyclone took his invention and used it for his own criminal ends, developing his Cyclone costume and other weapons.

Like many criminal masterminds in Spider-Man comics, he decided to form a gang and capture J. Jonah Jameson, the owner of the Daily Bugle and like so many criminal masterminds who follow this plan, he was defeated by Spider-Man.

He was subsequently employed by the Maggia, and was doing relatively well for himself (in spite of a subsequent defeat at the hands of Spider-Man), when he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and met his death at the hands of Scourge.

Powers & Paraphernalia

Strength Level: Normal; Powers: Power to generate winds up to cyclone force; Abilities: Technically brilliant; Equipment: Wind-generating equipment; Weapons: Wind; Limitations: Chooses inappropriate drinking establishments

Cyclone II

First Appearance: Thunderbolts #3 This Cyclone was only small-time thief in France named Pierre Fresson, until the technology from the first Cyclone's suit was recreated by a crime family. The suit generates a tornado around half the wearer's body from the mid-section down. Cyclone II is a member of both the 7th and 8th incarnation of the Masters of Evil.

Cyclone III

A third Cyclone appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #97 (April 1992), this time as a Silver Sable villain who had no connection with the previous or current Cyclone known in the Spider-Man and Thunderbolts comics.

External Links

Profile at Spiderfan.org

Fictional French people | Masters of Evil members | Spider-Man villains