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| Buck Cowan | |
| Aliases: | Chicken-Man [1] |
| Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Reporter |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | 2394 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, California |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | Marvel Spotlight #4 |
Buck Cowan is a fictional character featured in the Werewolf by Night family of titles published by Marvel Comics. He was introduced in the fourth issue of Marvels' try-out series Marvel Spotlight which, along with issues #2 and #3, served as a precursor to the regular Werewolf by Night ongoing series.
Biography[]
Buck Cowan was a journalist researching a legendary mystic text known as the Darkhold. Operating out of the Los Angeles, California area, he came upon an eighteen-year-old man named Jack Russell - the descendant of Baron Gregory Russoff - the last known possessor of the arcane tome. Jack suffered his own problems as a result of the Darkhold in that he had inherited a curse, passed down from his father, whereupon he transformed into a werewolf on the nights of the full moon. Buck and Jack traced the whereabouts of the Darkhold to L.A., which brought them into conflict with the Blackgar family. (MSPOT: 4)
Jack found the Darkhold and Buck helped him to smuggle it away from Blackgar Island. He chartered a seaplane that took them back to the mainland. They brought the Darkhold to Buck's house at 2394 Venice Boulevard in Venice Beach. Within short order however, Miles Blackgar and his mutant daughter Marlene came looking for it. Jack hid the Darkhold, but the Blackgars apprehended Buck as well as Jack's sister Lissa, knocking them unconscious and binding them together. While they were out, Jack transformed into the werewolf and defeated the Blackgars. Marlene's power to turn people into stone backfired and she accidentally turned herself and her father into statues. Buck donated the statues to the Santa Monica Art Museum where they were put on display. (WBN: 1)
As Buck and Jack's friendship grew, Buck realized that Jack's home life with his stepfather Philip was extremely tense. He invited Jack to move in with him and together they attempted to piece together the secrets of the Russoff family tome. (WBN: 2)
Buck, Jack and Lissa all went to Calliope's Carnival and Circus together. Jack disappeared when he Swami Rihva abducted him in the hopes of using his werewolf blood in an occult ritual. Buck and Lissa returned to the carnival grounds in search of Jack, but when the staff were unable to get rid of them, Rihva used mind control powers on Buck to make him into a new attraction - the hideous Chicken-Man! It was not one of Buck's finer moments. (WBN: 7)
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Buck Cowan was created by writer Gerry Conway and artist Mike Ploog.