CAPTAIN
BARRACUDA
CAPTAIN
BARRACUDA
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human, advanced technology user
Occupation: Pirate
Group Membership:
None;
briefly Black Mast
Affiliations: Starkey and the rest of
his crew; temporarily controlled the undersea mutates (including
a son of Giganto);
formerly Robo-Buccaneers
Enemies: Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady), Beast, Black Widow (Natalia Romanova), Deadpool, Dorrie Evans, Fantastic Four, Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Hector Herrera, Hulk, Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Iceman, Karthon the Questor, Machinesmith, Moon Knight, Namor, "Robinson Crusoe", Steve Rogers, Stingray (Walter Newell), Valkyrie, War Machine, crew on commercial oil tankers
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Barracuda, Cap'n Barracuda; "One-Eye" (nicknamed by Hulk)
Base of Operations:
various submarine
and other undersea vessels;
temporarily used an abandoned
former
undersea base of Captain
Omen
First Appearance: Strange Tales I#120 (May, 1964)
Powers:
Captain Barracuda has used a number of advanced submarine-type
ships, armed with a number of high-tech weapons. He and his crew
often carry a number of conventional and advanced forms of
weaponry. Among the weapons he has been known to use are:
An electrified net,
capable of capturing Namor, even at peak
strength.
A gamma device, which could mutate people
into
ape-men, or fire a gamma beam powerful enough to drop the
Hulk...even when he was pretty p.o.'ed.
An Inertia-Ray, able to remove all
inertia from
an object, bringing it to a sudden and non-traumatic stop.
The Omni-directional Beam, aka the Sonic
Magno-Directoid, was a military weapon which would allow the user
to control the trajectory of any underwater weapon. It was most
likely destroyed when Barracuda activated it and pulled a torpedo
towards him and his crew.
The Glove
of Asteria,
a highly destructive gauntlet able to generate superfast battering rams
of air.
An energy-charged
scimitar that could cut cleanly through almost anything.
The Proteus Horn, an Atlantean relic (sometimes red, sometimes white - are there multiple horns or is it just a custom paint job?) with which the user can summon and control the various monsters and mutates of the sea. Among these mutates was one of the offspring of Giganto. Presumably, a number of these creatures are Deviant mutates.
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Eye(s): (Left) brown; (right)
unrevealed, if still present
Hair: Dark
brown
History:
(Strange Tales I#120) - Barracuda and his crew boarded and attempted to loot the Gotham Boat line, which was a daily cruise through Manhattan. Unfortunately for them, both the Human Torch and Iceman were present on the ship. Although it took them much longer, and the crew, armed with nets and the like gave them some trouble, the heroes eventually corralled the pirates. Barracuda took Dorrie Evans hostage and attempted to flee, but he crashed into an iceberg, courtesy of Iceman, and he was arrested.
(Sub-Mariner I#10-11) - Captain Barracuda and his crew inadvertently captured Namor, alongside Karthon the Questor, who had been battling over the Serpent Crown. Barracuda had the two men bound while he claimed the Crown for himself. He then had his crew use an Inertia-Ray to capture an "American Bomber--carryin' a new kind of atomic warhead!" Namor eventually broke free, but Barracuda fired a torpedo at a nearby American Navy ship, and Namor took off in an effort to save it. As Barracuda planned, the military mistook Namor's intent and attacked him. Meanwhile, Barracuda had the distraction he wanted so that he could steal the "Sonic Magno-Directoid", with which he could control the path of other ships, torpedoes, etc. However, in the process, Barracuda unwittingly activated the device, pulling one of the Navy's torpedoes into his ship--seemingly killing them all.
(Incredible Hulk II#220(fb)-BTS) - Barracuda discovered an abandoned undersea base, formerly used by Captain Omen. Barracuda adopted the base as his own.
(Hulk II#219-220) - In search of a
missing gamma
ray-powered weapon, Barracuda's sensors locked on a ship with a
high gamma ray level. The ship contained not the device, but the
Hulk. However, when Barracuda's men torpedoed the ship, the Hulk
was knocked into the water, and ended up washing up on an island.
There the Hulk found a man calling himself Robinson Crusoe, who
was one of those who had developed the device. Barracuda's men
ambushed them, used the device the take out the Hulk, abducted
Crusoe, and used the device to mutate him into an ape-man.
However, the Hulk recovered more quickly than they had thought
and stowed away on their ship, following them to Omen's old base.
The Hulk freed Crusoe the ape-man, but again fell victim to the
gamma-weapon. Crusoe, however, savagely attacked Barracuda, and
then activated the gamma weapon, turning all of the crew into
ape-men. Crusoe sent the unconscious Hulk off in an escape
shuttle, and then activated Barracuda's conveniently located and
labeled self-destruct device--seemingly killing them all.
(Fantastic Four I#219) - Barracuda's crew assaulted Atlantis and stole the legendary Proteus Horn. Using the Horn, Barracuda then summoned a large number of deep-sea monsters and commanded them to attack Manhattan, while his men looted the city. Barracuda went mad with power, thinking his control of the monsters made him invincible. Namor and the Fantastic Four battled the monsters, and then Namor punched out Barracuda and retook the Proteus Horn.
(Vengeance of the Moon Knight#10 (fb)) - Aligned with the murderous Black Mast pirate crew, Captain Barracuda hijacked seagoing tankers, usually killing the entire crew. He also acquired the highly destructive Glove of Asteria, apparently from Norman Osborn.
(Vengeance of the Moon Knight#10) - Steve Rogers assembled a team to take down Captain Barracuda which included Moon Knight, Ant-Man, Beast, Black Widow, Valkyrie and War Machine. During the team's attack, Barracuda fired the Glove wildly, killing many of his crew by mistake before ordering the remaining hostages be killed. The Glove fell damaged in further battle, so Barracuda used the Proteus Horn to summon deep-sea monsters, diverting Rogers and his team, but also causing the oil tanker to sink. Moon Knight organized the escape of the survivors and his comrades, but Barracuda sunk below the waves still clutching his Horn.
(A+X#8/2) - Captain Barracuda
kidnapped renowned Mexican food chef, Hector Herrera, aboard his
submarine in an underground cavern below New York City in order to
force him to be his private chef. Hawkeye and Deadpool arrived,
overpowering Barracuda's pirates, then confronted Barracuda in his
submarine. Barracuda, proud of returning from seeming death, sliced off
Deadpool's arm with his energy-charged sword before Hawkeye
swiped the weapon away. About to blow the Proteus Horn,
Deadpool jammed his dismembered arm in before it could sound and
Hawkeye knocked the pirate out. He was presumably taken into custody by
the nearby NY police.
SECRET WARS III HAPPENED
(Iron Man 2020 II#2 (fb) - BTS) - Captain Barracuda designed his own Robo-Buccaneers to serve him as he started a caviar smuggling ring.
(Iron Man 2020 II#2) - Stingray attacked Captain Barracuda, who ordered his Robo-Buccaneers to fight the hero, but just then Machinesmith arrived and liberated the robots, convincing them to join the robot rebellion. Stingray then promised to punch Barracuda.
Comments:
Created by Stan "The Man"
Lee and Jack "King" Kirby.
Captain Barracuda, as Prime Eternal reminded me, has one superhuman ability: He can see through his eyepatch! Check out the top image--his right eye wears the patch. Maybe it was done with mirrors...
Profile by Snood. Moon Knight & A+X updates by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Captain Barracuda has no known connections to:
Captain Barracuda used funds from a black market sale to buy the Glove of Asteria, apparently from Norman Osborn and plundered from Project: PEGASUS. The (left-hand) glove could produce a directed column of air moving at near-light speed; it could strip flesh from bones, which is how Barracuda used it. He had bad aim and used it during his time with Black Mast. It fell off damaged during his fight against the Avengers. Its remnants likely vanished into the sea when Barracuda's boat sank.
--Vengeance of the Moon Knight#10
Starkey
was
Captain Barracuda's first mate. While Namor was held captive,
Starkey wisely attempted to taunt him by hurling a bucket of
water on him, thus giving him the strength to break free. Starkey
was also part of the effort to gain the gamma device, and was
turned into an ape-man by it. He got better, though, and was also
involved in the plot involving the Proteus Horn. He was captured
by the police after that adventure.
--Sub-Mariner I#10 (11, Hulk I#219, 220, Fantastic Four I#219
Captain Barracuda used a regular submarine and motor boat in his assault on the Gotham Boat Line.
The submarine which he used to capture Namor was presumably destroyed when the Omnidirectional device attracted a torpedo.
The submarine with which he stole the gamma device was in Omen's former base when the Crusoe ape-man detonated the base.
The submarine used in the assault on Atlantis may have escaped destruction, as Barracuda's crew left it to invade Manhattan--where they were all captured.
Captain Omen's base was abandoned under unknown circumstances, and taken up by Barracuda and his crew. It was destroyed when the Crusoe ape-man activated its self-destruct mechanism.
images:
Appearances:
Strange Tales I#120 (May, 1964) - Stan Lee
(writer/editor), Jack Kirby (art)
Sub-Mariner I#10-11 (February-March, 1969) - Roy Thomas (writer), Gene
Colan (pencils), Dan Adkins (#10) & George Klein (#11) (inks),
Stan Lee (editor)
Incredible Hulk II#219-220 (January-February, 1978) - Len Wein
& Roger Stern (writers), Sal Buscema (pencils), Ernie Chan
(inks), Len Wein (editor)
Fantastic Four I#219 (June, 1980) - Doug Moench (writer), Bill
Sienkiewicz (pencils), Joe Sinnott (inks), Jim Salicrup (editor)
Vengeance of the Moon Knight#10 (September 2010) - Gregg Hurwitz
(writer), Juan Jose Ryp (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
A+X#8/2 (July, 2013) - Christopher Hastings (writer), Reilly Brown
(art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Iron Man 2020 II#2 (April, 2020) - Dan Slott, Christos Gage (writers), Pete Woods (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
First Posted: 04/09/2002
Last
updated: 03/30/2014
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