| GLAZIER |
Real Name: Unrevealed (although "Glazier" could be her last name)
Identity/Class: Unrevealed (see comments)
Occupation: Artist/sculptor
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Snowstar
Enemies: Hulk (Bruce Banner)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Her beach-house
First Appearance: Incredible Hulk II#262/1 (August, 1981)
Powers/Abilities: Glazier possessed the ability to turn living things into glass. Entirely centered in her hands, this power enabled her to forever transform any living thing into a glass sculpture, a process which killed its victims. This power apparently did not work on any fabric such as her gloves (see comments), and apparently only worked at night, under the light of a full moon.
Possibly she was extremely long-lived, if not immortal (see comments).
Height: Unrevealed (5'7"; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed (120 lbs.; by approximation)
Eyes: Alabaster
Hair: White
Other distinguishing features: Completely colorless white flesh;
crystallized arms up to her elbows
History:
(Incredible Hulk II#262/1 (fb) - BTS) - The past of Glazier is largely unrevealed,
but she was once an artist, until a man broke her heart "as if it
were glass". She swore revenge on all men, but had no power to
achieve it, until she had somehow gained the ability to turn people whom
she touched into glass. This process also crystallized her arms up to
her elbows (which she concealed by wearing white evening gloves), and
presumably turned her skin and hair white. Although still ethereally
beautiful, she lost her true love as a result and she lashed out by
turning all her male lovers--including sportsmen, rich men, famous
men--into glass sculptures, which she kept in her private collection.
At some point, she established a home made of glass overlooking the California coast, where she lived with Snowstar, her dog.
(Incredible Hulk II#262/1) - Following the Hulk's battle with Absorbing Man on Easter Island (@ Incredible Hulk II#261), Dr. Bruce Banner washed up on Glazier's property. After taking the exhausted Banner into her home, she put him in a guest bedroom and provided him with fresh clothes while he slept.
When Banner awoke, Glazier showed him her glass "statues," then admitted she knew who and what he was; when she mentioned that she wanted to add the fugitive physicist to her collection, Banner assumed that she only wanted him to model for a glass sculpture, and found himself unable to resist her request after she kissed him (see comments)--unbeknownst to Banner, she secretly plotted to turn him into glass when he next became the Hulk, as she expected to trap him in mid-transformation.
Banner lived in Glazier's home for a month--he had not changed into the Hulk during his stay because it had been so quiet and peaceful; but one night, when he eventually got bored and began to feel like a "kept man," Glazier called him into her transparent art-studio. In the light of the full moon, she removed her gloves and told the fearful Banner what she intended to do to him, which panicked him and triggered his transformation into the Hulk.
Glazier ordered Snowstar to attack the Hulk, that she might lay her hands upon him during the distraction. But the jade giant swatted the lunging white canine away, and back toward Glazier; as Snowstar flew past her, Glazier accidentally touched him and turned her dog into fragile glass, and he shattered as he hit some of her other "statues".
Having learned that the Hulk was more powerful than she could control, Glazier was horrified when his great weight began to crack the glass floor of her studio. After the floor completely shattered, Glazier accidentally turned herself to glass as she plunged into the ocean waters beneath her home.
Comments: Created by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema.
A glazier is one who works with glass, specifically installing glass in windows.
Very interesting character and story. Too bad she was killed off so quickly and so easily, as she would have made a great villain in the same direction of the Grey Gargoyle. This is her only appearance.
This was only a 10-page story, and Glazier's true nature was unrevealed, so it's possible she could have been a mutant, or a mutate, or magically-empowered, or an extraterrestrial, or..; however, since her power apparently worked only under the light of the full moon, I'd guess that it was magic-based. And her kiss seemed to enthrall Banner's will, so he may have been spellbound during his stay with her.
Curiously, Glazier's power was not supposed to affect clothing, such as her gloves or Banner's shirt, yet her male sculptures all had their clothing crystallized with them.
My guess is that her power did work on regular clothing, but her gloves and the shirt she provided to Banner were made of a special insulating material that was resistant to her power.
Also, as seen in the sub-profile for her beach house, her collection included a glass racing car, which would seem to indicate that her power worked on inanimate objects, too.
And she may have been older than she looked because two of her "statues" looked to be clad in clothing from about a century earlier--this could indicate that she crystallized those two back then, and that she retained her relative youth into the modern era.-- Ron Fredricks
Despite the destruction of her glass creations, Glazier remained intact as she floated to the ocean's bottom and came to rest between the rocks. Possibly, I assume, some creative Marvel writer could still find a way to return her to life.
Betty Ross was once transformed into an
immobile glass statue after she got a blood transfusion from the
Sandman (@ Incredible Hulk I#138) (a condition that was later cured by
Doc Samson's Cathexis-Ray);
could Glazier's condition perhaps have had some connection with the
Sandman?
--John Kaminski
Profile by William Uchtman. Expansion by Ron Fredricks.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Glazier should not be confused with:
Snowstar should not be confused with:
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Glazier's sole companion, he was an unspecified breed of canine (presumably a white blue-eyed husky). When Glazier ordered him to attack the Hulk, the obedient Snowstar lunged at the jade giant; but the Hulk swatted him away and back toward Glazier. As he flew past her, Snowstar was accidentally turned to glass by Glazier, and he shattered when he hit some of her other "statues". --Incredible Hulk II#262/1 (d |
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Located in Malibu, California, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, this structure was built on a cliff over-looking the Pacific Ocean; everything in it that wasn't made of glass was colored white. It included a large room used as a gallery, where Glazier displayed some of her "statues". The house also had a transparent art studio (see main image), where Glazier transformed men into glass statues under the light of the full moon--this room was made of glass from floor to ceiling, with a view that made it appear to be hanging in space, between the stars and the sea. The floor of the studio was eventually shattered by the weight of the Hulk; the fate of the rest of the house remains unrevealed. --Incredible Hulk II#262/1 |
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Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p6, pan4 (main image - Glazier in art studio; Snowstar (background))
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p4, pan2 (headshot - Glazier)
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p6, pan5 (Glazier removes her gloves, revealing her crystalline hands)
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p10, pan7 (Glazier, completely turned to glass, on ocean floor)
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p2, pan2 (Snowstar)
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p8, pan1 (Snowstar lunges at Hulk)
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p9, pan1 (accidentally turned to glass, Snowstar shatters after hitting other "statues")
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p1, pan1 (Glazier's beach-house)
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p2, pan6 (exterior of Glazier's beach-house; Glazier (foreground))
Incredible Hulk II#262/1, p4, pan4 (interior of Glazier's beach-house; Glazier shows Bruce Banner her gallery of "statues")
Appearances:
Incredible Hulk II#262/1 (August, 1981) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Sal
Buscema (pencils/inks), Barry Grossman (colors), Jim Novak (letters), Al
Milgrom (editor)
First posted: 02/18/2002
Last updated: 11/09/2024
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