Korvac

Korvac is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Michael Korvac was a computer technician born on the Blue Area of the Moon of Earth-691 in the year 2977 to Jordan and Myra Korvac. Due to events surrounding his birth, Korvac's father was killed and he was raised by his mother to have a hateful and vengeful attitude. (Guardians of the Galaxy Annual v1 #1) When the Solar System and its colonies became the target of conquest by the alien Brotherhood of Badoon, Michael became a collaborator and traitor to the human race since he felt his former superiors had always refused to recognize the scope of his abilities. (Thor Annual v1 #6)

Fleeing across time and space to the past, Korvac arrived on Earth-616. Korvac's journey brought him to the space station of the cosmic entity Galactus, Taa II. Attempting to download the knowledge of Galactus from the station into his own system, Korvac was imbued with the Power Cosmic and became a god-like being, which allowed him to restore his body. Korvac's ascension caused him to seek a higher purpose, foregoing his previous power-hungry vengeful ways. He set out to take control of the fabric of reality in order to correct the chaos and injustice brought into the universe by civilization. To this end, Korvac concealed his presence from other near omnipotent beings and traveled to Earth, posing as a normal human and living a normal life, waiting for the day he would enact his plan. (Avengers v1 #175)

Fueled by his newfound hatred for Iron Man, Korvac reached the epiphany that he could achieve universal harmony by means of universal annihilation. He broke free from his captors and returned to Earth. However, Stark had relinquished the Power Cosmic after becoming corrupted by it, and in his human form he began suffering from morphine withdrawal, a drug he had started taking to alleviate pain from near-fatal injuries previously inflicted by Korvac. In a state of stupor, Stark goaded Korvac into forfeiting the Power Cosmic, accusing Korvac of his continuous search for power being an instrument to escape from himself. Korvac began to beat Tony brutally until further symptoms of the withdrawal settled in. Korvac had a change of heart, and took Tony to a hospital. Afterward, he climbed to the top of a building nearby and jumped off, killing himself. (Iron Man v6 #18)

Notes

• Korvac was created by Steve Gerber and Jim Starlin where he made his first appearance in Giant-Size Defenders #3 (January, 1975).
• According to his creator, Gerber stated, "The character really was a throwaway, created for one story. And I never intended to bring him back, because, among other things, I hated the name! I still think it sounds more like a vacuum cleaner than a villain."

Appearances

• Giant-Size Defenders v1: (1975)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Annual v1:
• Thor Annual v1:
• Iron Man:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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