Gog (Marvel Comics)

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caption = Cover of "The Amazing Spider-Man" #103, the first appearance of Gog. Art by Gil Kane.
character_name = Gog
publisher = Marvel Comics
debut = "The Amazing Spider-Man" #103
creators = Roy Thomas and Gil Kane
full_name = Gog
height =
weight =
affiliations = Sinister Six
aliases = None
powers = Super strength
Wields bracelets capable of interdimensional teleportation|

Gog is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Universe. Created by writer Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, the character first appears in "The Amazing Spider-Man" #103.

An alien being from an unknown planet, Gog resembles a gigantic reptilian humanoid; despite his monstrous appearance and demeanor, Gog is actually quite intelligent, capable of understanding human speech and creating various complex devices.

Fictional character history

While travelling through the Savage Land, Kraven the Hunter finds a crashed space ship in quicksand and ventures inside. There, he finds the juvenile and minuscule Gog and another member of species, who had apparently died during the space ship crash landing. Deciding to save the young Gog from his sinking ship, Kraven takes him with him, names him Gog and decides to raise him as a pet; much to Kraven's surprise, Gog rapidly grows to gigantic size only days after being found by him. Cite comic
Writer = Roy Thomas
Penciller = Gil Kane
Inker = Frank Giacoia
Story = The Beauty And The Brute
Title = The Amazing Spider-Man
Volume = 1
Issue = 104
Date = January, 1972
Publisher = Marvel Comics ] Kraven, realizing how useful Gog can be, decides to use him in a plot to conquer the Savage Land; after kidnapping the visiting Gwen Stacy from a camp in the Savage Land, Kraven and Gog battle the heroes Ka-Zar and Spider-Man. [ Cite comic
Writer = Roy Thomas
Penciller = Gil Kane
Inker = Frank Giacoia and Tony Mortellaro
Story = Walk The Savage Land! and Gog
Title = The Amazing Spider-Man
Volume = 1
Issue = 103
Date = December, 1971
Publisher = Marvel Comics ] While Ka-Zar deals with Kraven, Spider-Man defeats Gog by luring him into a patch of quicksand, which he sinks to the bottom of. Cite comic
Writer = Roy Thomas
Penciller = Gil Kane
Inker = Frank Giacoia
Story = The Beauty And The Brute
Title = The Amazing Spider-Man
Volume = 1
Issue = 104
Date = January, 1972
Publisher = Marvel Comics ]

Gog would later be saved from dying in the quicksand by the Plunderer. Having Gog, who created a device that allowed him to speak English, act as his servant, the Plunderer uses him in a plot to try and steal the super soldier serum in New York. Followed to New York by Ka-Zar, Gog and the Plunderer battle him before Gog, using his teleportation bracelets, escapes, first to the Statue of Liberty, then the World Trade Center and finally, to another dimension.

Gog is later found in the dimension he escaped to by Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six, who induct the creature into their group as the sixth and final member of it. [ Cite comic
Writer = Erik Larsen
Penciller = Erik Larsen
Inker = Erik Larsen
Story = The Sixth Member
Title = Spider-Man
Volume = 1
Issue = 22
Date = December, 1992
Publisher = Marvel Comics ] Aiding the Sinister Six fight a multitude of heroes, Gog is beaten in combat by the hero Solo and shrunken by Mister Fantastic, who sends him back to the the dimension the Sinister Six found him in. [ Cite comic
Writer = Erik Larsen
Penciller = Erik Larsen
Inker = Erik Larsen
Story = Confrontation
Title = Spider-Man
Volume = 1
Issue = 23
Date = June, 1992
Publisher = Marvel Comics ]

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