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Grappler | |
Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
Notability: | Antagonist |
Type: | Supervillain |
Occupation: | Criminal |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Human |
Location: | Los Angeles, California |
Status: | Deceased |
First: | Savage She-Hulk #18 |
Final: | Captain America #319 |
The Grappler is a fictional costumed criminal and a minor recurring antagonist featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is associated with the She-Hulk line of titles and first appeared in Savage She-Hulk #18 in July, 1981 in a story called "When Favors Come Due!"
Biography[]
Inspired by billionaire entrepreneur Hugh Howard, who once told a young man that the key to true power is through leverage, the individual who would one day call himself Grappler took this lesson to heart. Obsessed with the notion of being able to use leverage to get his way, he studied martial arts and physics until he became a veritable expert at... uhh... leverage.
Donning a costume, he equipped himself with a titanium steel rod and began calling himself the Grappler. Descending from a helicopter in Los Angeles, he sought rob an armored car of its gold supply, which brought him into conflict with the She-Hulk. Amazingly, Grappler managed to avoid She-Hulk's blows, and even succeeded in keeper her off her feet. Grabbing his ill-gotten gains, he ascended on the helicopter zip line and made his getaway. [1]
Years later, Grappler would become one of many low-key super-villains who would be gunned down in the Bar With No Name in Medina County, Ohio by the Scourge of the Underworld. [2]
Abilities[]
Powers[]
- None: Grappler is by all accounts a normal human being with no superhuman abilities to speak of.
Skills[]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Grappler was created by writer David Anthony Kraft and artist Mike Vosburg.
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References[]
- ↑ Savage She-Hulk, Volume 1 #18 (July, 1981) "When Favors Come Due!". Written by David Anthony Kraft. Artwork by Mike Vosburg.
- ↑ Captain America, Volume 1 #319 (July 1986) "Overkill". Written by Mark Gruenwald. Artwork by Paul Neary.