Terror
The Terror is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe who debuted in Mystic Comics #5, a publication of Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics.
The man who became the Terror was horribly injured in an automobile accident after his car crashed into a tree. Dr. John Storm, a reclusive scientist, found his body. Previously, the doctor had come under attack by a rogue gorilla. During the incident, a formula had spilled into the food belonging to the doctor's dog. The dog consumed some of the food and became a wolf-like monster with a skull-like face and a thirst for blood. The gorilla was swiftly defeated. Storm theorized that the formula gave entities what they needed in times of extreme need, as when humans are able to lift cars off of trapped love ones. He decided to test the formula on the man he had rescued, deciding that he would not mind since the accident had left him with severe amnesia.
The doctor was then attacked by criminals looking to profit from his work. The accident victim transformed into a hideous white-skinned and red-eyed vampire-like creature and slew the criminals. Donning a black cloak, he then set off to fight crime. Among his enemies was a German scientist who planned to use a shrinking fluid on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The character returned briefly in the 1990s, in a storyline of She-Hulk. His real name now revealed to be Laslo Pevely, he had lost his powers and become an old man. He regained them in time to help combat a cosmic menace. He reappeared later in a cameo in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man, where he was given a normal skin color.
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Famous quotes containing the word terror:
“One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)
“The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Methinks King Richard and myself should meet
With no less terror than the elements
Of fire and water, when their thundering shock
At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)