TITANO
Real Name: Inapplicable
Identity/Class: Terrestrial animal mutate; possible Deviant mutate; pre-modern era
Occupation: Sea monster
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Commander Hartnell
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: The
Arctic region;
(formerly) the
ocean floor, most notably near South Pacific islands.
First Appearance: Tales to Astonish I#10/1 (July, 1960)
Powers/Abilities: As an incredibly large crustacean, Titano possessed enormous strength, enough to tear a large ship in half with its claw.
History:
(Tales to Astonish I#10/1 (fb)) - Titano's origins are unknown. It first made its presence known by causing tidal waves on a coast of Japan and later attacked a ship off the coast of Hawaii.
(Tales to Astonish I#10/1) - Commander Hartnell of the U.S. Navy was briefed on the attacks, and took a bathosphere into the ocean to try to find the creature, which he did. Barely escaping with his life, Hartnell came up with a plan. He had a submarine painted with a luminous coating. With Hartnell commanding, the sub got the attention of Titano and led it to the Arctic region. There, the sub quickly maneuvered away from a glacier, but Titano couldn't stop and plowed into the ice, trapping the monster.
Comments:
Created by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott.
Despite the "underwater" color
scheme, Titano is actually an orange-ish color.
Reprinted in Tower of Shadows#7 and
Marvel Monsters: Where Monsters Dwell#1
As seen in Avengers/Invaders#10 (June, 2009) Titano was killed in 1943 by the Red Skull (Johann
Shmidt) when he used a Cosmic Cube to alter
history, creating a new timeline (Earth-93198);
the Invaders and Avengers restored the original
timeline, reviving this Giganto. Other monster corpses seen floating in the ocean were the Atlantean Giganto, Monster Island's Giganto and Behemoth.
--Markus Raymond
Profile by Madison Carter
CLARIFICATIONS:
Titano has no known connections to
A Commander in the U.S. Navy, Hartnell came up with the plan to trap Titano in glacier ice.
--Tales to Astonish I#10/1
Images: (without ads)
Tales to Astonish I#10, p4, pan2 (main image)
Tales to Astonish I#10, p5, pan1 (Hartnell)
Appearances:
Tales to Astonish I#10/1 (July, 1960) - Jack Kirby (penciler), Joe Sinnott (inker)
First Posted: 02/21/2006
Last Updated: 08/23/2022
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