Jonas Harrow
Jonas Harrow is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Jonas Harrow
As a result of his unorthodox experiments, Harrow came to be discredited as a surgeon and expelled from the medical profession. One day, he came upon a near-dead criminal lying on the streets in the Bowery where he decided to save the man. This was under the hope of redeeming his lost reputation where he helped repair the man's brain and fixed a steel allow to replace the shattered bone thus creating the man who came to be known as Hammerhead. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #114) Later on, he approached Frank Oliver where he offered to give him power and after accepting he conducted a series of operation on the man turning him into the Kangaroo. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #126)
He would encounter Dirk Leydon who was starting his life a criminal where he offered to give the man superpowers. Through his experiments, he was able to turn the man into the supervillain Megawatt. He then had the superpowered criminal and some hirelings sent to steal some high-tech components for Harrow that were being held at a special vault. However, their break-in was interrupted by Daredevil who easily handled Megawatt with him being arrested by the authorities. (Spider-Man Unlimited v1 #2)
When the Wisp rebelled while fighting the intervening Spider-Man, Harrow's device temporarily dissipated him. Using stolen information, Harrow developed a 'variator ray' to control human emotion. By now obsessed with Spider-Man, he tested the device on the hero's self-appointed enemy Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson, whom he drove to a nervous breakdown. Gloating, Harrow widened the ray's range to the victims, only to have Spider-Man locate and destroy the ray. Undaunted, Harrow dared Spider-Man to confront him, but was defeated with one punch. Sentenced to Ryker's Island Prison, Harrow learned that an inmate named Armand DuBroth was blackmailing Warden Percy Rue into allowing DuBroth's use of the prison a base of criminal activities, including the release of select super-villains. Harrow and the Grey Gargoyle became the latest beneficiaries of DuBroth's scheme, but Spider-Man exposed the operation. Harrow went unheard of for years, although some incorrectly suspected him of being the Hobgoblin. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #219)
Harrow later accepted a Roxxon Oil contract to create synthetic automated soldiers. To this end, he again extorted industrial crimes from Will O'The Wisp. Surreptitiously seeking Spider-Man's help, the Wisp instead encountered the hero's clone Ben Reilly, who removed Harrow's implant when the Wisp assumed intangible form, but not before Harrow forced his catspaw to release Dragon Man from custody. When Harrow remotely guided the powerful android to him, Reilly and the Wisp followed and destroyed Harrow's base. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 236)
Later on, Harrow came to be hired by the Hood to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act. He helped invent a power drainer based on a prototype made by Iron Man. After his defeat by the New Avengers, the Hood came to lose his powers with Harrow attempting to use the power drainer as a bargaining chip to replace the Hood in Norman Osborn's Cabal. Osborn called Harrow in to operate on Luke Cage and secretly planted a miniature bomb on Cage's heart. However, the Hood soon returned, with new powers granted by the Asgardian Norn Stones whereupon he blew Harrow's head off with a single magically charged bullet. (New Avengers v1 #60)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Jonas Harrow was an ordinary human who came to be trained as a doctor. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #126) This was until the man was disgraced for his experiments. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #114) Harrow became a man of unusual talent who was skilled enough in certain techniques that could impart a person with superpowers. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #126) He was also able to alter a person's nervous systems in order to give them superhuman abilities. (Spider-Man Unlimited v1 #2)
He was known to implant devices in the people he experimented on in order to ensure their compliance. This included a recall device that allowed his experiment to return to him. In addition, he had a system in place where he could remotely destroy one of his creations. Use of the device was said to leave his target in incredible pain and was enough to scare them into complying with Harrow's orders. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #168)
Notes
- Jonas Harrow was created by Gerry Conway and John Romita, Sr. where he made his first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #114 (October, 1972).
Alternate Versions
- In House of M: Avengers v1 #1 (2007), an alternate version of Jonas Harrow appeared in the House of M reality designated as Earth-58163 in the Multiverse. He was part of a group of scientists that included Farley Stillwell and Michael Morbius who performed experiments on Luke Cage in an attempt to turn him into a super-soldier for the war against Mutants.
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1972)
- Spider-Man Unlimited v1:
- New Avengers v1:
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