JAVARRA-BLIC HYBRID

Real Name: Unrevealed; possibly none

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Reality-54136) hybrid of two extraterrestrial races (fauna);
    circa 2223 A.D.

Occupation: Prey

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None none

Enemies: Unidentified hunter

Known Relatives: Plutonian Javarra and Uranian Blic (parents, although it is uncertain which was the mother and which was the father; see the comments for that sub-profile)

Aliases: None

First Appearance: Astonishing I#35/5 (October, 1954)

Powers/Abilities: Unrevealed.

    The hybrid had sharp tusk-like maxillary (upper jaw) canine teeth with smaller but still sharp incisors.

    It has three sharp, bone-like claws on each hand and foot, without an obvious opposing thumb-like structure.

    It had a green reptilian-scales on the face with large eyes raised out of the skull and then a thick brown mane on the back of the lower portion its head, with similar thick brown fur over its body.

    It was vulnerable to the power of a neutron gun.

Traits: Unrevealed.

    It was not particularly stealthy nor aggressive, and it presented little challenge to the hunter and his neutron gun.

Type: Bilaterally symmetric biped (possessing reptilian and mammalian features
Eyes: Two (on head; dark color seen; projecting outward from rather than recessed within the skull)
Fingers: Three (without opposing thumb)
Toes: Three
Skin color: Green scales on face (covered in brown hair or fur)
Average height: Unrevealed (it seemed to be relatively large compared to the hunter, perhaps 10'; however, it may be that the hunter was just more distant, making it appear larger)

History:
(Astonishing I#35/5 (fb) - BTS) - Bored as he had successfully hunted all big game in the solar system, the hunter wished to have a quarry that could give him a keen thrill of danger, even though in the end, he was certain to conquer it.

(Astonishing I#35/5) - To this end, the hunter somehow crossbred a Plutonian Javarra and a(n) Uranian Blic.

    However, even the fantastic offspring provided only a routine hunt, and it was slain by the hunter with his neutron gun.

Comments: Created by Mannie Banks and unidentified writer.

    The hunter had presumably successfully hunted both the Plutonian Javarra and the Uranian Blic; the captives that he used to create the hybrid may be those beings, whom he had captured rather than slain, or they may be other beings in captured after successfully hunting another of their species.

    Only one Javarra and one Blic was seen, and so all information is based on that single image. Similarly, only one image of the hybrid was shown.

    We don't know the circumstances nor the time period in which the hybrid was created. Was it raised by its parents? Did it have a chance to grow up and learn, or was it advanced to an adult body condition and then thrown into the hunting preserve without any experience or knowledge beyond inherent instincts?

    These 4-5 page stories are often interesting, and a lot was going on in this story, but there are many questions that will most likely remain unrevealed.

    Uranus in the 21^st century is a gas giant and does not truly have a surface on which you could stand, and certainly not an atmosphere or temperature within which humans can assist unaided, but who knows may have occurred 200 years in the future in this reality...
    However, the image in this story may or may not have taken place within a hunting preserve, perhaps floating in the upper atmosphere?
    Similarly, Pluto is a block of ice that was in 2006 on the real world demoted to the status of a dwarf planet, and it is largely composed of ice with no atmosphere.
    Or perhaps they creatures were contained in a base on Earth?
    While there is not evidence to support this, it seems likely that in Reality-54136's 23^rd century, either humanity colonized/terraformed all of the planets in Earth's solar system (+/- genetically engineered various animal species there) or else there were pre-existing lifeforms on each of those planets.
    Or, perhaps these worlds are actually hospitable and life-bearing in Reality-54136.

    The story was told in the second person, so YOU were the inventor and hunter...that's great, but the character remains unidentified...

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Javarra-Blic hybrid and its parents should be distinguished from:

• JAKARRA - Wakandan general, son of Ramonda, half-brother of T'Challa, mutated by raw Vibranium into sound monster, sought to usurp Wakandan throne, destroyed by potion from Joshua Itobu. Superhuman strength + durability, generate waves of vibratory force--Black Panther I#6
• HYBRID - aka Killer. apparently half-ape, half-crocodile; perished in battle with Lorna--Lorna the Jungle Girl#8/4
• HYBRID (Jimmy Marks) - son of human woman (Marjorie Seaton) and Dire Wraith ("Jacob Marks"), who had crashed to Earth, trained to use vast psychic powers against humans by Dire Wraiths sisters, slew parents, returned Starshine (Brandy Clark) to human form, sought to create a race of human/wraith hybrids he could rule. Powerful telekinetic and telepath, metamorph, drain life force from others, has reformed self after complete disintegration --Rom#17
• HYBRID (Scott Washington) - green + grey + lavender + orange symbiotes, merged with former Guardsman Scott Washington after he was paralyzed in a gang shoot out. Superhuman strength and durability, project organic webbing--Venom: Along Came a Spider#1/2
  
• HYBRID - composite being created by union of Aralune & Supernaut--Order II#8, (identified) #9
• HYBRID of Earth-93060 (Simon Carthan) - formerly with Aladdin, used science + sorcery to try to cure himself--Mantra I#24
• HYBRIDS of Earth-Crossover? - agents of Pretorius, human/animal--Generation X/Gen13#1
• other Plutonian, Uranian, "Javarra," or "Blic" characters, groups, items, events, races or places...

j(Astonishing I#35/5 (fb) - BTS) - Bored as he had successfully hunted all big game in the solar system, the hunter wished to have a quarry that could give him a keen thrill of danger, even though in the end, he was certain to conquer it. (Astonishing I#35/5) - To this end, the hunter somehow crossbred a Plutonian Javarra and a(n) Uranian Blic.     However, even the fantastic offspring provided only a routine hunt, and it was slain by the hunter with his neutron gun. Note: By convention, we might ASSume that the creatures were named from left to right in the order in which they were named, making the brown creature the Javarra and the green creature the Blic. Other than that reasonable assumption, there is nothing to confirm it to be the case. If I was certain, I probably would have given them each their own profile, but since we don't know, they just get this combined sub-profile until/unless it it is ever confirmed.      Additionally, we don't know which was the male and which was the female. Again, you might assume the larger one to be the male, but that is obviously not the case in all species and not always even in humans. It is also possible that they were some sort of functional hermaphrodites. Or perhaps the hunter just combined their DNA scientifically without sexual reproduction.

images: (without ads)
Astonishing I#35/5, pg. 2, panel 4 (Javarra & Blic);
          panel 5 (hybrid)

Appearances:
Astonishing I#35/5 (October, 1954) - Mannie Banks (artist), Stan Lee (editor)

First posted: 02/15/2025
Last updated: 02/15/2025

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