BULK
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human mutant
Occupation: None, homeless
Group Membership: Morlocks (Glow Worm and unrevealed others)
Affiliations: New Mutants (Cannonball/Sam Guthrie, Magik/Illyana Rasputin, Mirage/Danielle Moonstar, Sunspot/Roberto Da Costa, Warlock, Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair), X-Factor (Angel/Warren Worthington III, Beast/Hank McCoy, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Marvel Girl/Jean Grey)
Enemies: High Evolutionary (Herbert Wyndham), Purifiers (Major Purge, Stack, unidentified others)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: a hazardous waste dump in New Jersey;
formerly the Alley, Morlocks tunnels, Manhattan, New York
First Appearance: X-Factor I#7 (August 1986)
Powers: Bulk had superhuman strength and durability, the extent of which is undefined. In addition, Bulk gave off radiation in dosages sufficient to be toxic to those around him in a short time period.
History:
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe HC#7: Morlocks entry - BTS) - Shunned by society, the man known only as Bulk joined the underground misfits known as the Morlocks at some unrevealed point in the past.
(X-Factor I#7 - BTS) - Bulk and his friend Glow Worm left the Morlocks tunnel for unrevealed reasons and came to live in a hazardous waste dump in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River.
(X-Factor I#7 (fb) - BTS) - While living in the waste dump, both mutants contracted radiation sickness, although realizing the radiation would eventually kill them they decided to stay regardless. Glow Worm and Bulk were periodically attacked by malicious mutant-hating humans even though they already lived in a literal waste dump.
(X-Factor I#7) - Bulk and Glow Worm decided that they wanted their lives to have meant something, and wished to do something to stop human persecution of mutants. Discovering an advertisement for the alleged mutant-hunters of X-Factor, they decided to travel to their headquarters and put a stop to their activities or die trying. When they attacked, several members of X-Factor posed as the group, the X-Terminators, pretending to aid Bulk and Glow Worm, while actually containing their attacks. A few other members of X-Factor, as well as their young trainee, and a few civilian allies, posed as the mutant hunters. X-Factor pretended that their mutant abilities were mutant control equipment and got Bulk and Glow Worm to safety in the sewers below the city, where they explained their true nature. X-Factor wished to help them, but feared that their radiation levels could kill everyone around them, so they sent them back to New Jersey with only a wish for good luck.
(Uncanny X-Men I#210 - BTS) - Fearing Glow Worm and Bulk would've contaminated the city a group patrolled the streets in search for mutants. When the humans found X-Man Nightcrawler they chased him to a derelict Hudson River warehouse, Nightcrawler was rescued by Shadowcat, Colossus and Magik.
(New Mutants Annual#4) - A short time later, during the Evolutionary War, the High Evolutionary sent his Gatherers to collect Bulk and Glow Worm. Terminally ill at this point, the New Mutant Mirage's temporary valkyrie power manifested death images over both of them. Sunspot freed the two of them, but Mirage was captured and attached to a power draining device. Bulk and Glow Worm sacrificed the last of the energy reversing the drain on Mirage, which resulted in a power amplification, enabling her to physically manifest the forms of fears and desires. The New Mutants escaped the High Evolutionary's ship, leaving Bulk and Glow Worm for dead.
Comments: Created by Louise Jones, Jackson Guice, and Josef Rubinstein.
Glow Worm and Bulk were part of the Morlocks profile in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe HC#7 (March, 2009)
Too bad it didn't occur to X-Factor to ask Tony Stark, Reed Richards, or even their own member Hank McCoy to design some sort of radiation containment suits to allow the Bulk and Glow Worm to be treated, rather than send them back to the dump to die.
Profile by Snood
CLARIFICATIONS:
Bulk has no known connections to
Images: (without ads)
X-Factor I#7, cover (main image)
Appearances:
X-Factor I#7 (August, 1986) - Louise Jones (writer), Jackson Guice (pencils), Josef Rubinstein (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Uncanny X-Men I#210 (October, 1986) - Chris Claremont (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Dan Green (inks), Ann Nocenti, Terry Kavanagh (editors)
New Mutants Annual#4 (May, 1988) - Louise Simonson (writeR), June Brigman (pencils), Bob McLeod (inks), Ann Nocenti, Bob Harras (editors)
First Posted: 09/08/2001
Last Updated: 10/20/2023
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