Doctor Bong
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| Doctor Bong | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Howard the Duck #15 (Aug 1977) |
| Created by | Steve Gerber, Gene Colan |
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| Alter ego | Lester Verde |
| Team affiliations | Fifi the Duck |
| Abilities | Scientific genius. Bell-shaped helmet can be struck to create a number of effects |
Doctor Bong (Lester Verde) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He possess an advanced knowledge of genetic engineering, and his bell-shaped helmet can be struck to create a number of effects. He has clashed with Howard the Duck.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Originally a journalism student whose yellow journalism got his professor fired, his hand is severed by a miniature guillotine when performing with the punk band Mildred Horowitz. This is a big factor into becoming the villain Doctor Bong. How he developed his paraphernalia was easily explained.
It is revealed that he was also a skilled scientist, using his knowledge of Chemistry and Physics to create several devices and creatures to do his bidding, particularly Fifi the Duck, who was the closest thing Bong had to a henchwoman.
He had a longtime crush on Beverly Switzler, whom he eventually married. Before he was removed from the book, Steve Gerber had intended for their marriage to last and for her to no longer be a main character in the Howard the Duck series, but when he was removed from the book, Bill Mantlo quickly dissolved the marriage and brought the series back to a position of status quo.
John Byrne later pitted him against She-Hulk, trying to uncensor sanitized violent television so that his genetically-engineered quintuplets would be raised not finding violence at all attractive. She-Hulk, using her abillities to break the fourth-wall, manages to defeat him.
It is later revealed in his initial appearance that he had given up supervillainy to obtain a PhD in psychology. His first patient is Deadpool, who came to him for treatment after the events of the Dead Reckoning. He was, however, back to supervillainy by the Max Howard the Duck series.
Bong later appears in a multi-villain fight.[1]He's recently appeared in Brand New Day as one of the villains in the bar.
[edit] References
- ^ "Daughters of the Dragon" #3.
