History: (Summer Fun with
the Marvel Super Heroes coloring book (fb) - BTS) - Having become the
enemy of the heroic Iron Man, Meltor was at some point incarcerated. He
eventually escaped jail and went after Iron Man.
MELTOR
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human technology user (fringe character)
Occupation: Criminal
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Iron Man (Jim Rhodes) (see comments)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: New York City, New York, USA
First Appearance: Summer Fun with the Marvel Super Heroes coloring book (1985)
Powers/Abilities: Meltor has no inherent
superhuman powers but he wears a costume equipped with a belt capable
of projecting an intense beam of heat from its belt buckle.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'11")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 160 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (see comments)
Hair: Unrevealed (see comments)
History: (Summer Fun with
the Marvel Super Heroes coloring book (fb) - BTS) - Having become the
enemy of the heroic Iron Man, Meltor was at some point incarcerated. He
eventually escaped jail and went after Iron Man.
(Summer Fun with the Marvel Super Heroes coloring
book) - During a particular hot summer in the city, Meltor battled Iron
Man, hitting him in the back with his belt-mounted heat beam. Iron Man
eventually got the jump on Meltor and defeated the criminal, flying him
through a maze of clouds to return the criminal to jail.
Comments: Created by Suzanne Weyn, Steve Geiger and Phil Lord.
As a coloring book character,
there is nothing to say the coloring book story occurred on
Earth-616...but there's also nothing to say it didn't and there's not
really anything that contradicts it.
One might argue that the Meltor in
the Summer Fun coloring book was simply a misspelled Melter since the
costumes and powers were identical but Melter (Bruno Horgan) was dead
at the time the coloring book was published and no other Melters had
shown up at the time. With that in mind and the spelling of the
character's name as "Meltor," I'm leaning towards (and making the
ASSumption) the character being
an entirely new character who based his motif on the original Melter.
Certainly if something ever comes along to discredit that assumption,
this profile will be updated, or even removed if necessary, to reflect
that information.
The Iron Man in the Summer Fun
with the Marvel Super Heroes coloring book was likely Jim Rhodes even
though his true identity is not mentioned at all in the book. The
coloring book was published in 1985, which was the year that Rhodes
ultimately stepped down as Iron Man and Tony Stark stepped back into
the role (Iron Man I#200, November, 1985). Given that the armor in the
coloring book is the classic red & gold, it stands to reason that
this was Jim Rhodes still, as even though by summer 1985, Stark had
been slowly stepping back into the role, he was wearing his old gray
armor until fully returning in #200 with the Silver Centurion armor.
Rhodes was wearing the classic red & gold armor at the time. Since
the coloring book story takes place in summer 1985, it would have
occurred during the time where Rhodes was still in the armor but
suffering headaches that ultimately led to him stepping down...
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Meltor should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Summer Fun with the Marvel Super Heroes coloring book (1985) - Suzanne
Weyn (writer), Steve Geiger, Phil Lord (art), uncredited editor
First posted: 05/27/2024
Last updated: 05/28/2024
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