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| Nefarius | |
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 Moonstone/Nefarius Gil Kane, Art | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain America #169 (1974) |
| Created by | Steve Englehart andMike Friedrich (story) &Sal Buscema (art) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Lloyd Bloch |
| Species | Human mutate |
| Team affiliations | Secret Empire Maggia |
| Notable aliases | Moonstone, Byron Becton |
| Abilities | As Nefarius:
As Moonstone:
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Nefarius (Lloyd Bloch), previously known asMoonstone, is asupervillain appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics.
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The character first appeared inCaptain America #169 (1974) and was created by writersSteve Englehart andMike Friedrich and artistSal Buscema.[1]
Lloyd Bloch is an agent of the secondSecret Empire, who intend to discreditCaptain America and take his place as America's "symbolic" hero. The Empire had previously damaged Captain America's reputation by accusing him of vigilantism and framing him for the death of small-time criminal theTumbler.[2] Empowered by a lunar stone, he becomes Moonstone and battles Captain America before being defeated and arrested.[3] Subsequently, his psychiatrist,Karla Sofen, steals his stone and becomes the second Moonstone.[4]
Bloch later resurfaces, now possessing ionic powers similar to those ofWonder Man and known as Nefarius. He kidnaps Sofen and plans to kill her in revenge before being killed byCount Nefaria, who drains his energy.[5][6]
Bloch possesses superhuman physical abilities derived from a lunar stone that is imbued with unknown energy. After losing the stone, he regains his powers via a mutagenic process created by Dr. Kenneth Sturdy and gains the additional ability to generate intense heat beams from his eyes.
Bloch is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, and received extensive unarmed combat training from the second Secret Empire.
During theThunderbolts' sojourn onCounter-Earth, Sofen encountered Bloch's counterpart who went by the codenamePhantom Eagle. The alternate Bloch became obsessed with Moonstone and began experiencing psychotic episodes and was exposed as aserial killer. Sofen proceeded to steal his equivalent stone too.
Moonstone I at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
