BAILEY BRIGGS
Real Name: Bailey Briggs
Identity/Class: Human mutate (ghost)
Occupation: Engineer:
formerly Sergeant in the U.S. Army
Group Membership: Hammer Aeronautics
Affiliations: Evangeline "Angie"
Cryer (lover), Alpha Team, Mr. Quarrel
(defender), The Thing/Benjamin Grimm, Peabody,
his other defendants and affiliates (Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and
Holliway's Law Firm)
Enemies: Maxwell
Newton, Jennifer Walters, Mallory Book
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Upstate New York, Hammer
Aeronautics manufacturing plant
First Appearance: She-Hulk I#3 (July, 2004)
Powers/Abilities: After death, Briggs's
spirit could interact with the material world being seen and heard
when he wanted, but he was incorporeal and was not restrained by
physical barriers.
Weaknesses: Briggs wasn't able to
pass to the afterlife because of his love for Angie, which kept him
bound to the Earthly plane.
History:
(She-Hulk I#3) - Bailey Briggs worked as engineer on a
prototype of a hyper-sonic jump-jet. He loved his work and was sure
that the result of his project would change the face of air travel.
Briggs wanted his "Evangeline" (the prototype) to be perfect. Naming the jet after Angie, his lover, was as a gift for her, whom he felt he wasn't able to care enough for. He repeatedly postponed the delivery date, causing loss of millions of dollars in contracts, and Maxwell. Newton, the manager, deeply resented that.
However, Briggs' "Evangeline" stole too much of his
time, so he neglected Angie for a long time.
So, on the day of Angie and Bailey's
anniversary, when Briggs refused to celebrate it to work on the jet,
Angie left him. At that point of their relationship, she didn't feel
anything for him anymore.
That late night, Briggs was still in the wind
tunnel, but he wasn't working anymore, he thought of Angie. He
couldn't see his Newton, who entered in the command room, activated
the tunnel fans and killed him.
Weeks later, Briggs' ghost was still on Earth. His soul was in a so
great turmoil that Bailey continued to stay on the Earthly plane until
his affairs would have been resolved. The affair that imprisoned Briggs
on Earth was his love for Angie, a love he wanted to demonstrate giving
her name to the jump-jet, but which he could not finish. So, Briggs
devised a plan to have Angie join him. Knowing that his murderer would
have been sentenced to death, he decided to have her killed in Newton's
place so they could live forever together in the afterlife. Vengeance
mattered very few for Briggs, for he knew that Newton would be punished
and tormented in the afterlife.
Thus, Briggs, under unrevealed means,
contacted Mr. Quarrel, the lawyer that defended Newton. Mr. Quarrel
asked for Doctor Strange's assistance about the supernatural side of
the situation, but also asked the assistance of Goodman, Lieber,
Kurtzberg and Holliway's Law Firm, which led to the involvement of
Mallory Book and Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk).
The day of the trial, Briggs was allowed to testify by Judge Phillips. He perjured that Mr. Newton wasn't the assassin, and claimed that Angie Cryer had killed him.
Nonetheless, the evidence and the
stronger motives for the murder pointed to Newton, so Jennifer Walters
and Mallory Book went to the manufacturing plant to investigate.
There, they discovered that Briggs had named the jet prototype after his
lover, and understood that he loved her too much, so much
to lie and have her killed to join her in the afterlife. Briggs,
however, spied on them. As a ghost, he watched and heard their
deductions. He decided that they were dangerous for the success of his
scheme, so activated the wind tunnel to kill them, in the same way
that Newton had killed him. What he didn't reckon was that Jennifer
Walters could become She-Hulk. The jade giantess destroyed the tunnel
and saved Mallory.
Hours later, Briggs found himself forcibly summoned
into an enchanted prison: the Cage of Cyttorak. The truth of his
affairs were revealed before him so the Cage became able to restrain
him.
Charged of two attempted murders, Bailey Brigg's
ghost would spend his afterlife sentence on Earth.
He could not meet Angie anymore in the
afterlife.
Comments: Created by Dan Slott, Juan Bobillo and Marcelo Sosa.
Briggs was mentioned in the Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z I#4.
In his ghostly apparition, Briggs wore a military
uniform with the U.S. Army Sergeant grades.
Profile by Spidermay.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Bailey Briggs has no known connections to:
Maxwell Newton has no known connections to:
Hammer Aeronautics has no known connection to the
H.A.M.M.E.R. agency that time later replaced SHIELD after the Skrull
Secret Invasion.
Judge Phillips has no known connection to any other "judge" or "Phillips" character.
Mr. Quarrel has no known connections to any other "Quarrel" character.
Angie Cryer has no known connections to any other character with a similar name.
Peabody has no known connections to:
Maxwell Newton was the boss of Hammer
Aeronautics.
Newton waited for Bailey Briggs to
finish the hyper-sonic jet that would have changed the world of
aeronautics. Unfortunately for him, Bailey Briggs kept trying to
perfect the airplane, never delivering a finished product. Every
time that Briggs put off the delivery date, Newton lost millions of
dollars.
He left significant evidence of his murder, the fingerprints, the voice
on the console, etc. so he was accused of the murder. He took Mr.
Quarrel as defendant lawyer. However, apparently his best defense
came form Bailey Briggs that lied for his own purposes, but knowing
that in the afterlife Newton would not escape the right punishment.
Mr. Quarrel and the Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and
Holliway's Law Office helped Newton to be discharged.
In the end, Newton learned about what
punishment waited for him in the afterlife. The revelation would cause
him to die three days after.
--She-Hulk I#3
Judge Phillips presided over the
trial that accused Maxwell Newton.
She had to decide whether to admit the ghost of
Bailey Briggs to testify.
Ben Grimm's deposition helped to assess that people
sometime did come back from death.
So, the Judge accepted that Bailey Brigg's ghost
would swear and give his testimony. Briggs lied under oath, creating a
reasonable doubt and the jury decided that Newton was innocent.
--She-Hulk I#3
Evangeline Cryer was Bailey Briggs' lover.
The two were not married. Their
relationship went well until Briggs started to work to the hyper-sonic
prototype. Unbeknownst to Angie, the jump-jet carried her name, and
Bailey wanted it to be perfect as a proof of his love for her. What
Angie noticed, instead, was that Bailey worked too much and neglected
her. So, time after time her love for him faded.
When Bailey refused to celebrate their anniversary,
she decided to break the relationship, feeling nothing for him
anymore.
Bailey's death complicated things because her ex-lover devised a plan to force her to join him in the afterlife. Angie was accused by Bailey of being his assassin. Bailey's purpose was to have her killed as punishment, so he could stay with her after death. However, Jennifer Walters and Mallory Book's investigations uncovered Brigg's real purpose of his lies.
Briggs was imprisoned. He was even ready to wait
for Angie's departure, but his imprisonment took place on Earth, so he
had to stay separated from her.
--She-Hulk I#3
Peabody was the General Prosecutor's assistant.
Peabody attended the trial of
Evangeline Cryer. When Jennifer Walters asked who, among the people in
the room, had been killed by Thanos with the Infinity
Gauntlet, Peabody raised the hand.
--She-Hulk I#3
images: (without ads)
She-Hulk I#3, p3, pan6 (the
ghost of Bailey Briggs)
She-Hulk I#3, p1, pan2
(Briggs, head shot)
She-Hulk I#3, p3, pan2 (Mr.
Newton and Mr. Quarrel)
She-Hulk I#3, p14, pan5
(Judge Phillips)
She-Hulk I#3, p1, pan2 (Angie Cryer)
She-Hulk I#3, p14, pan4 (Peabody)
Appearances:
She-Hulk I#3 (July, 2004) - Dan Slott (writer), Juan Bobillo
(pencils), Marcelo Sosa (inks), Chris Chukry (colors), Tom Breevort
(editor)
First Posted: 01/12/2025
Last updated:
01/12/2025
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