Elektro (Marvel)
Elektro is a comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Elektro
His origins were traced to the work of Wilbur Poole who sent about to create the world's most advanced computer. However, a bizarre accident resulted in the computer gaining sentience where it went about brainwashing his creator who was forced into building a massive body to house it. Poole then linked the computer to the robots body which proceeded to go on a rampage. Taking the name Elektro, the giant robot attacked the city resulting in a clash with the U.S. military who were no match against the titanic machine. To stop the threat, Poole snuck into the robot's body from one of its feet where he unplugged a transistor that was connected to the main power source allowing for Elektro to be defeated. (Tales of Suspense v1 #13)
Years later, Mister Fantastic wiped Elektro's flawed programming and replaces it. He then 'enrolls' Elektro in his rehabilitation program, which involved the machine being reduced to human size and stripped of his powers so as to allow him to enter human society. Elektro takes up a job as a mail attendant in the Fantastic Four's headquarters in the Baxter Building and later joined his fellow rehab-program creatures that included the extraterrestrials Fin Fang Foom, Googam and Gorgilla, to defeat the microscopic alien conqueror Tim Boo Baa. He also started a relationship with Fantastic Four's robotic receptionist Roberta. (Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four v1 #1)
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Powers and abilities
Elektro was a supercomputer that came to gain sentience after a bizarre accident. (Tales of Suspense v1 #13)
Notes
- Elektro was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense v1 #13 (January, 1961).
Appearances
- Tales of Suspense v1: (1961)
- Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four v1: (2005)
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