Glowworm (comics)

Glowworm is the name of two unrelated characters from Marvel Comics. Though created only a few months apart, they have little in common except the name.

Glowworm I

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caption=
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Glowworm
real_name=William Blake
species=Human mutate
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Power Man/Iron Fist" #123 (May 1986)
creators=Jim Owsley
Mark Bright
Jerry Acerno
alliance_color=background:#cccccc
status=
alliances=None
previous_alliances=
aliases=Race Killer, White Devil
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powers=superhuman strength and steel hard skin, shrug off double |First appeared in "Power Man and Iron Fist" #123 (May, 1986). This Glowworm was William Blake, a former soldier who had volunteered for experiments to re-create the Super-Soldier Serum. After leaving the Marine Corps, one night he transformed into a huge, glowing white creature who began screaming racial slurs and attacking black people in Power Man's neighborhood. When news got out that a "white mutant" was attacking blacks, it nearly sparked a race riot, but once Cage defeated the creature, it reverted to human form, revealing that he was a black man himself. Blake had grown up in the Deep South, at a time when rampant racism led him to believe that blacks were inferior to whites, resulting in his own hatred of himself and his own race. [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/glowwormblake.htm]

It was revealed that he was one of the inmates at The Raft who escaped and was recaptured.

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comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Glowworm
real_name=Unrevealed
species=Human Mutant
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="X-Factor" vol. 1#7 (August 1986)
creators=Louise Jones
Jackson Guise
alliance_color=background:#cccccc
status=Deceased
alliances=Morlocks
previous_alliances=
aliases=
relatives=
powers=generate and release spheres of destructive energy |

Glowworm II

The second Glowworm first appeared in "X-Factor" #7 (August, 1986). This Glowworm is a mutant with a humanoid torso, and a worm-like tail instead of legs. He is the partner of Bulk, a mutant with enormous size and strength.

Bulk and Glowworm were outcasts, not just for their mutant status or unusual appearance, but because both continually gave off toxic levels of hard radiation. The two sought shelter in a toxic waste dump in New Jersey, but upon hearing about the group X-Factor (who at that time were posing as mutant hunters), the pair decided to attack them to "protect mutants". After a short battle, the members of X-Factor explained their true nature as mutants themselves. The two returned to their isolation.

In "New Mutants Annual" #4, Bulk and Glowworm seemingly sacrificed their lives to save Danielle Moonstar [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/blkglwm.htm] .