BILLY

Real Name: Billy ??

Identity/Class: Human (World War I to Modern era)

Occupation: Unrevealed

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Triton

Enemies: None

Known Relatives: Gramps (Grandfather), Grandmother (name unrevealed)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Ireland

First Appearance: Inhumans III#8 (July, 1999)

Powers/Abilities: None

History: (Inhumans III#8 (fb)) - Young Billy boarded a ship called the Lusitania with his Gramps, bound to Ireland so they could see his grandmother. Gramps gave Billy a shilling to impress her with. A torpedo struck the boat, causing mass confusion and scrambling for lifeboats, and Gramps had to jump overboard with Billy in his arms. The sea creature, the Inhuman Triton, took Billy from Gramps' arms and deposited him on the shore, leaving Gramps to drown.

(Inhumans III#8) - Years later, Triton visited Billy on the shore, asking for advice. Billy was now an old man in a wheelchair.

Comments: Created by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee.

Billy's last name may have been Sullivan. In Inhumans III#9, p13, pan3, Gramps' refers to the family line being Sullivan, but this is never directly connected to Billy's name.

It was implied that Triton visited Billy much over the years.

The RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner first launched on June 6, 1906. On May 7, 1915 it was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk.
  Marvel's sliding timescale makes it hard for Billy to have lived at the time the Lusitania sunk, but it was clearly meant to be that ship.
--Markus Raymond

Profile by Chadman.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Billy has no known connections to

• Billy the Monster, mutated, Hulk enemy @ Incredible Hulk II#222
• Billy, Tiger Shark enemy @ Ms. Marvel I#15
• Billy, of the Wanderers @ Nomad II#18
• Billy, mutant, Neverland captive @ Weapon X II#5
• Billy, of Forge's Marauders @ Uncanny X-Men I#262
• Billy, of Earth-523004 @ What If.. Magneto & Professor X Had Formed the X-Men Together?
• Billy, Ghost Rider ally @ Marvel Comics Presents I#124/3
• Billy the Kid 2099, William Zedd, of Free Radicals @ X-Men 2099 I#18
• Billy Bird, of the Loonies @ Marvel Comics Presents I#31/4
• Billy Boy, ally of Clive @ Chamber of Darkness I#7
• or any other "Billy," "Bill," or "William" characters

Gramps

(Inhumans III#8 (fb)) - Gramps took Billy on the Lusitania bound for Ireland. When a torpedo struck the ship, Gramps was forced to jump overboard with Billy in his arms. The Inhuman creature, Triton, took Billy from Gramps' arms, leaving Gramps to drown.

--Inhumans III#8 (fb)

images: (without ads)
Inhumans III#8, p1, pan2&3 (main image)