Kane based the character's look on that of actor Jack Palance. Thomas and penciller co-creator Gil Kane created the character as a man who is given pseudo- vampiric abilities and traits via scientific rather than supernatural means. Thomas said that the name "Morbius" was not deliberately taken from the antagonist Doctor Morbius in the movie Forbidden Planet. Other than that, he didn't specify what we should do," Thomas said in 2009, adding that part of the character conception came from an unspecified science-fiction film of Thomas' youth, depicting a man turned into a vampire by radiation rather than magic. "We were talking about doing Dracula, but Stan wanted a costumed villain. Lee, busy writing a screenplay for an unproduced science fiction movie, bequeathed the series to his right-hand editor, Roy Thomas.
It was the first issue of Marvel Comics' flagship Spider-Man series written by someone other than character co-creator and editor-in-chief Stan Lee. 1971) following the February 1971 updating of the comic-book industry's self- censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, that lifted a ban on vampires and certain other supernatural characters. Morbius debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #101 ( cover-dated Oct. IGN ranked the character as Spider-Man's 19th-greatest villain. Jared Leto will portray Morbius in a live-action film adaptation set to be part of Sony's Spider-Man Universe. The character has appeared in several media adaptations outside of comics, including animated shows and video games. The rest of his appearances feature his struggles with his pseudo-vampiric persona, his insatiable lust for human blood and his subsequent efforts to cure his horrific condition, along with his eventual stint as a brutal and nightmarish vigilante. His true identity is that of a former award-winning biochemist named Michael Morbius, who was imbued with pseudo- vampiric superhuman abilities and physical traits after a failed biochemical experiment which was intended to cure his rare blood disease, rather than originating from supernatural means. ĭespite his initial status as one of Spider-Man's horror-based rogues, Morbius went on to become a brooding, gritty and tragically flawed antihero in his own series and other titles. Created by writer Roy Thomas and originally designed by penciler Gil Kane, he first appeared as an enemy of the superhero Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man #101 (Oct.
Michael Morbius, Ph.D., M.D., is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Superhuman strength, speed, senses, and durability.Promotional art for Morbius: The Living Vampire #1 (March 2013), by Gabriele Dell'Otto
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