Taurus (Marvel)
Taurus is the name of several characters in the Marvel Universe.
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Taurus (Cornelius Van Lunt)
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Cornelius van Lunt was a New York City area businessman who started his career in legitimate real estate dealings but who branched out into various criminal endeavors. (Secret Warriors v1 #25)
He alongside John Garrett, Thomas Davidson, Vasili Dassaiev, Shoji Soma, Baron Strucker, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Jake Fury, Daniel Whitehall, and Viktor Uvarov, were called by Leonardo Da Vinci in his alias as Aries to form the Great Wheel of Zodiac. Each member was assigned a codename from the Zodiac Calendar, Cornelius van Lunt being Taurus. The group consisted of the best covert intelligence agents from around the globe. After only a few key missions for Da Vinci, he would provide them resources that would be of great value to their own separate agendas. The mission was a success, and Vasili began conspiring with with Viktor. Together, they betrayed the Great Wheel and stole the technology their missions had acquired. The broken Great Wheel led to the creations of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, Leviathan, and the Zodiac Cartel. (Secret Warriors v1 #25)
As the founder and financer of the original Zodiac cartel, van Lant chose its eleven other leaders, and succeeded Marcus Lassiter the original Aries as the Zodiac's overall leader.
An ardent believer in astrology, Van Lunt amassed a fortune under the guidance of his personal astrologer. Van Lunt invested that fortune in the formation and outfitting of a nationwide criminal network, which he named Zodiac Cartel. Van Lunt himself chose the eleven criminals who led Zodiac along with him. Each of the twelve leaders of Zodiac was born under a different sign of the astrological Zodiac than the others, and took the name of his or her particular sign, and was based in a different American city. Van Lunt long concealed his true identity from the others beneath his zodiacal personal Taurus. Originally, Van Lunt was the only member of Zodiac who knew the true identities of all the other leaders. As Taurus, Van Lunt took New York City as his base of criminal operations. Zodiac's ultimate goal was that of world economic and political domination. The Zodiac intended to rule humanity just as its members believed that the astrological zodiac governed humanity's fate.
In the Zodiac's first mission, Taurus and the Zodiac were summoned by Nick Fury who had been disguised as Scorpio. Taurus came to battle the Avengers but managed to escape. (Avengers v1 #75)
Taurus (Android)
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Taurus (Ecliptic)
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Taurus (Unknown)
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Notes
- The concept of Taurus was created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema where it made its first appearance in Avengers v1 #72 (January, 1970).
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- Avengers v1: (1970)
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