Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:20:17 GMT -5
19th Century
Many adventurers and criminals were active in North America's "Wild West", some of whom used costumed identities, such as the Two-Gun Kid, the original Ghost Rider who was later renamed the Phantom Rider and succeeded by three other men, Kid Colt, the Outlaw Kid, the Apache Kid, and the Red Wolf. Other non-masked gunfighters of the era included the Rawhide Kid, the Gunhawks, the unrelated Gunhawk, and Caleb Hammer. All of these gunslingers, save for the Rawhide Kid, the Red Wolf, and the Gunhawk Reno Jones are known to have been murdered or killed in battle by the century's end. Most of them died in a blaze of glory in 1885, defending the town of Wonderment, Montana from the land-grabbing Nightriders. That said, the Two-Gun Kid is known to have used time travel to visit the present from a time before his death on at least two separate occasions; on the first such occasion, he joined the superheroic Avengers, and on the most recent, he became a companion to the She-Hulk. The ghost of Carter Slade--one of the last Phantom Riders--would later possess his modern-day ancestor, Lincoln Slade, who became the modern Phantom Rider.
In 1890, the events that inspired Bram Stoker's novel Dracula occurred, as Dracula bit Mina Harker and was stalked by her friends, including Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula survived the conclusion of this hunt by transforming into mist when he was stabbed by Jonathan Harker and the dying Quincey Morris. Quincy Harker, the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker, would battle Dracula for years upon reaching adulthood. Around the same time, Nathaniel Essex, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, was transformed by Apocalypse, becoming Mister Sinister. His obsession for genetics led him to create numerous monstrous posthumans via surgery and genetic engineering.
Soon after, Dracula and Apocalypse fought one another in London. Apocalypse returned to suspended animation, where he would remain until the modern era, and Dracula was staked by Apocalypse with the assistance of Abraham van Helsing. Dracula was revived by none other than the Frankenstein monster, who defeated him in combat, although Dracula was eventually revived, and he finally killed van Helsing in 1899. Van Helsing was survived by at least one child, and his granddaughter--or great-granddaughter--Rachel would fight Dracula in the modern era alongside Quincy Harker, Dracula's descendant Frank Drake, and others.
James Howlett, who would later call himself "Logan" and then "Wolverine", was born near the end of the 19th century. James' older brother John Howlett Junior possessed a similar mutation, and one or both may have been the sons of the Howlett family's servant, Thomas Logan, who had a son who was only called "Dog". When John Jr. first unsheathed his mutant claws, he accidentally maimed his mother; his family institutionalized him and pretended that he was dead, going so far as to have a headstone made for him.
Many adventurers and criminals were active in North America's "Wild West", some of whom used costumed identities, such as the Two-Gun Kid, the original Ghost Rider who was later renamed the Phantom Rider and succeeded by three other men, Kid Colt, the Outlaw Kid, the Apache Kid, and the Red Wolf. Other non-masked gunfighters of the era included the Rawhide Kid, the Gunhawks, the unrelated Gunhawk, and Caleb Hammer. All of these gunslingers, save for the Rawhide Kid, the Red Wolf, and the Gunhawk Reno Jones are known to have been murdered or killed in battle by the century's end. Most of them died in a blaze of glory in 1885, defending the town of Wonderment, Montana from the land-grabbing Nightriders. That said, the Two-Gun Kid is known to have used time travel to visit the present from a time before his death on at least two separate occasions; on the first such occasion, he joined the superheroic Avengers, and on the most recent, he became a companion to the She-Hulk. The ghost of Carter Slade--one of the last Phantom Riders--would later possess his modern-day ancestor, Lincoln Slade, who became the modern Phantom Rider.
In 1890, the events that inspired Bram Stoker's novel Dracula occurred, as Dracula bit Mina Harker and was stalked by her friends, including Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula survived the conclusion of this hunt by transforming into mist when he was stabbed by Jonathan Harker and the dying Quincey Morris. Quincy Harker, the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker, would battle Dracula for years upon reaching adulthood. Around the same time, Nathaniel Essex, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, was transformed by Apocalypse, becoming Mister Sinister. His obsession for genetics led him to create numerous monstrous posthumans via surgery and genetic engineering.
Soon after, Dracula and Apocalypse fought one another in London. Apocalypse returned to suspended animation, where he would remain until the modern era, and Dracula was staked by Apocalypse with the assistance of Abraham van Helsing. Dracula was revived by none other than the Frankenstein monster, who defeated him in combat, although Dracula was eventually revived, and he finally killed van Helsing in 1899. Van Helsing was survived by at least one child, and his granddaughter--or great-granddaughter--Rachel would fight Dracula in the modern era alongside Quincy Harker, Dracula's descendant Frank Drake, and others.
James Howlett, who would later call himself "Logan" and then "Wolverine", was born near the end of the 19th century. James' older brother John Howlett Junior possessed a similar mutation, and one or both may have been the sons of the Howlett family's servant, Thomas Logan, who had a son who was only called "Dog". When John Jr. first unsheathed his mutant claws, he accidentally maimed his mother; his family institutionalized him and pretended that he was dead, going so far as to have a headstone made for him.