The
DESERTER
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human technology user
Occupation: Megalomaniac, scientist
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Captain America
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: "The Mad Deserter"
Base of Operations: Private Laboratory
First Appearance: Hostess Fruit Pies ad "The Deserted City!" (published in various Marvel books, February, 1980)
Powers/Abilities: The Deserter was an inventive genius who created a "deserter ray" gun which fired some form of mind-control beam that could make any one fired upon desert their families, jobs, etc. The effects of the "deserter ray" were not permanent as Captain America was able to shrug them off in a few hours.
History:
(Hostess ad: "The Deserted City!") - The spell of the
Deserter caused the entire population of an unnamed city to
abandon their lives and walk to the outskirts of the town. When
Captain America went to investigate, he too was blasted by the
Deserter's ray-gun. Awakening with the rest of the city's
population, Captain America gave them Hostess Fruit Pies, and the real
fruit filling and flaky crust broke them from their trance. Cap
then went to The Deserter's lab and put the kibosh on the
AWOL-antagonist.
Comments: Created by an
unknown writer and an unknown artist.
Of all the Hostess villains, only Icemaster has shown up in an Earth-616 title. He could have crossed over to Earth-616 from "Earth-Hostess," but I say leave them on Earth-616 until proven otherwise. Nonetheless, until they do show up in regular continuity, they remain outside regular canon. Surely someone will write a story teaming them all together.---Snood.
This is not true anymore as some Hostess ad villains were mentioned in the Fantastic Four Encyclopedia as natives of Earth-616. And lets not forget about Printout Man in the New Avengers Most Wanted Files.
You can get the whole story, and some clever commentary from Seanbaby's The Hostess Page. It might not meet with the Comics Code Authority's approval, so kids, ask your parents before checking that out!---Kyle
Profile by John Kaminski
Clarifications:
The Deserter has no known connection to:
images:
The Deserted City, panel 2
panel 4
Last updated: 05/20/06
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