| Solarr | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain America #160 (April 1973)[1] |
| Created by | Steve Englehart Sal Buscema |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Silas King |
| Species | Human mutant |
| Team affiliations | Emissaries of Evil |
| Notable aliases | Bright Gian |
| Abilities |
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Solarr (Silas King) is a character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. Created by writerSteve Englehart and artistSal Buscema, the characterfirst appeared inCaptain America #160 (April 1973). He belongs to the subspecies of humans calledmutants, who are born with superhuman abilities.[2][3]
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Solarr debuted inCaptain America #160 (April 1973) and was created bySteve Englehart andSal Buscema. He appeared in the 1963Avengers series.[4]
Silas King was born inCarson City, Nevada. King is a latent mutant and drug runner whose mutant gene activates when he spends several days out in the desert sun after his truck breaks down. While recovering from sunstroke and dehydration in a hospital, King realizes that he can absorb and discharge solar energy. He becomes a criminal known as Solarr and joins theEmissaries of Evil.[5]
Solarr is eventually captured and imprisoned atProject Pegasus, where scientists study his powers.[6][7] One of the other captives and subjects for study at Project Pegasus is Bres, an other-dimensional being. One of the other captives and subjects for study at Project Pegasus wasBres, one of the other-dimensional Fomor. After Solarr kills Project Pegasus guard Harry Winslow, Bres resurrects Winslow and has him kill Solarr.[8]
Many years after his death, Solarr is resurrected bythe Five.[9] During the "Fall of X" storyline, Solarr is among the mutants who take refuge at the Limbo embassy. He is later killed by analternate version of Madelyne Pryor.[10]
Solarr is amutant who possesses the ability to absorb, store, and manipulate large amounts of energy from light, especially direct sunlight.
Solarr appears in theX-Men: The Animated Series episode "Secrets, Not Long Buried", voiced by Lorne Kennedy.[11] This version isBill Braddock, the leader of theChildren of the Shadow and ruler of the human and mutant community of Skull Mesa.
First appearing in an issue of Captain America in the early 1970s, this criminal — born Silas King — is a mutant who discovers that he can absorb and redistribute large amounts of solar energy in the form of devastating heat blasts or in flashes that can leave enemies blind.
"Solarr" was Silas King, villain; dead.
Next, the Panther served valiantly in an immense struggle between the mad god Thanos and Earth's Mightiest Heroes in AVENGERS #125, and then a rematch with his old foe Klaw and the energy-charged Solarr in AVENGERS #126.
Another original story, "Secrets, Not Long Buried" finds Cyclops looking for his old pal Taylor only to wind up with a head injury that temporarily stalled his mutant powers. Upon arriving in Skull Mesa he met a group of mutant supremacists calling themselves the Children of the Shadow. The episode allowed for some deep-cut appearances by the likes of Solarr, Tusk, Random, Toad, Senyaka, and Forearm among others!
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