CHTYLOK the CHE-K'N KAU
Real Name: ...Chtylok?
Identity/Class: Unrevealed
Occupation: Protector? of the Fall
People
Affiliations: Worshipped by the Fall
People;
indirectly allied with the Hulk (Bruce Banner), Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder), Shanna the
She-Devil (Shanna O'Hara), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Stegron the Dinosaur Man
Enemies: Hulk (Bruce Banner), the mutates of
Subterranea, Roxxon Oil Company (Dr. Gerald Roth, others)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: The Che-K'n Kau, Nakra, Chicken
Cow, Foghorn (the last two were Spidey's names for it)...and
the Hulk referred to him as a "house with feathers"
Base of Operations: Subterranea; Savage
Land
First Appearance: Sensational Spider-Man
I#13 (February, 1997)
Powers/Abilities: Chtylok is immensely strong,
well into the Class 100 range, and is virtually indestructible.
It can fly, has razor-sharp talons,
and rock-hard hooves. It's tail is semi-prehensile, has spikes on
its tip, and can be used as a weapon to strike or stab.
Height: 25'
Weight: 8 tons
Feathers: White
Fur: Brown
Eyes: Solid red
History:
(Sensational Spider-Man I#14 (fb)) - Long ago (centuries?
millennia?), the ancestors of the Savage Land tribe, the Fall
People, attempted to escape the Savage Land. In the frozen
Antarctic outside the jungle world, they encountered the mighty
Chtylok, who drove them back into the jungle...in pieces. The
tribesmen believed that this was a warning from their guardian
that they must stay in their valley. The Fall People worshipped
Chtylok, and began leaving it offerings (a fatted ram, that sort
of thing) each new moon. They believed that one day a terrible
disaster would threaten to wash over their valley, but then the
great Chtylok would rise out of the earth to save them from that
which would destroy them.
(Sensational Spider-Man I#13-15) - In the modern era, damage to the
ozone layer above the Savage Land had begun to cause the glaciers
around the jungle world to melt, threatening to flood the entire
region. Water trickled down into the subterranean caverns,
awakening Chtylok from its millennia long sleep. It found itself
below Monster Island, and it traveled to the surface, scaring off
the giant monsters there. Several of the monsters fled in the
direction of the Florida Keys, which drew the attention of the
Hulk, who had at the time made them his home. The Hulk traveled
to Monster Island to investigate, but was tackled by the
monstrous Chicken Cow. They fell back into the caverns of Monster
Isle, and began a several day struggle that moved them a great
distance through Subterranea, bringing them into the Savage Land.
Meanwhile, Peter Parker had been sent on a trip to the Savage
Land to cover SHIELD (Strategic Hazard Intervention Logistics
Directorate)'s efforts to save it. As Spider-Man, Parker joined
forces with Ka-Zar and Shanna, but was told by Malthala of the
Fall People that they were not needed: Chtylok will save them.
The heroes investigated and found that the Roxxon Oil Company,
while claiming to have been setting up relay stations, were in
fact setting up drills in the Savage Land for all of the oil
beneath it (lots o' dinosaurs-> fossils->fossil
fuel->oil). Roxxon was also using microwaves to hasten
the melting, in order to submerge the Savage Land, and thus
nullify all laws protecting its resources. SHIELD was apparently
unaware of this, and believed they were working with Roxxon to
preserve the Savage Land. This melting also freed Stegron, the
Dinosaur Man, who had been frozen in the ice. Stegron gathered an
army of dinosaurs to slay all of the humans (Spidey,
Ka-Zar+Shanna, SHIELD, Roxxon,...and anyone else in site), who he
saw as trying to destroy his would-be home.
...Anyway, Chtylok and the Hulk burst out of the ground in the
middle of that fight. The Hulk finally got the better of Chtylok
and smashed it to the ground, where Stegron's Tyrannosaurus Rex's piled on
top of it. Ka-Zar revealed the truth to the agents of SHIELD, and
they joined forces with Spidey, the Hulk, Ka-Zar+Shanna, and
Stegron to destroy Roxxon's microwave/drilling stations. Dr.
Gerald Roth, the head of Roxxon's Savage Land drilling plot, was
left to his fate by his superiors, and he activated bombs in all
of SHIELD's dams, to release the water and flood the Savage Land,
killing them all!!!!! However, as Spidey had planned, the water
came crashing down from all sides, and formed a whirlpool that
sucked it all into the immense Subterranean crater carved by the
battle between the Hulk and Chtylok.
Roth, meanwhile, fled into the jungle, seeking to escape
capture...and finding....Chtylok.
(Spider-Man Family II#7/1 - BTS) - While in the Savage the Looter, who sought to steal the Sphere of Sara-Kath, used the claim that he saw the legendary Chtylok in the distance to distract Spider-Man, the Human Torch, Thing, Ka-Zar and Shanna. He used the distraction to escape through a portal atop a temple.
(Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone#1) - Ka-Zar sent Jacob Hathaway information about Chtylok.
(Thor V#1 - BTS) - A fast food chain named Cthylok Chicken (misspelling included) became a thing (presumably in the US). Thor sometimes ate Cthylok Chicken.
Comments: Created by Todd Dezago and
Mike Wieringo, and most likely their friend, Mary Jane.
No true origin is given. It could easily be a
Deviant mutate, an extra-terrestrial creature, or it could be the
spawn of some race of Gods.
You know what?
Sure it's a goofy story...I loved it!!
KRAW! Kraw indeed, Chtylok, Kraw indeed.
Updated images by Markus Raymond.
Profile by Snood. Update by Markus Raymond.
Clarifications: Chtylok should not be
confused with:
...yeah, right!
images: (without ads)
Sensational Spider-Man I#13, p22, pan3 (main image)
Sensational Spider-Man I#14, p10, pan2-5 (VS Hulk)
Sensational Spider-Man I#15, p21, pan4-6 (Vs Roxxon's Roth)
Appearances:
Sensational Spider-Man I#13-15 (February-April, 1997) - Todd DeZago (writer), Mike Wieringo (pencils), Richard Case (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone#1 (November, 2005) - Michael Hoskin (head-writer), Madison Carter, Jeff Christiansen, Sean McQuaid, Stuart Vandal, Eric Moreels, Ronald Byrd & Barry Reese (writers), Jeff Youngquist (editor)
Spider-Man Family II#7/1 (April, 2008) - Karl Kesel, Todd DeZago & Mark Waid (writers), Karl Kesel (artist), Nathan Cosby (editor)
Thor V#1 (August, 2018) - Jason Aaron (writer), Michael Del Mundo (artist), Wil Moss (editor)
First Posted: 12/22/2001
Last updated: 08/10/2023
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