CONSERVATOR
CONSERVATOR
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human, exotic technology user
Occupation: Endangered species animal preserve
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: The World Wildlife Foundation
Enemies: Formerly Devil Dinosaur, Ka-Zar, Namor, Shanna, Wolverine (Logan/James Howlett), and Zabu.
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Formerly
Castillo, a Pacific island, north of New Guinea and South of the Caroline
Islands
First Appearance: Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1 (December, 1993)
Powers/Abilities: The Conservator has access to advanced technologically, including teleporters and energy cages. He has advanced knowledge of Earth's endangered species and their husbandry.
Height: Approx. 5'8"
Weight: Approx. 170 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: White
History:
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1) - After years of bearing silent witness as
mankind destroyed the environment and its neighbors in nature, and of watching
as laws proved too little or too late (or were ignored), an unidentified man
decided to use his resources to create a place where he was a law unto himself.
Abandoning his true name with the rest of humankind, a man took the identity of
the Conservator and established a base on an uncharted island, which he named
Castillo. He constructed it to give safe haven to those Earth species on the
verge of extinction (either from humanity hunting them down or obliterating
their former natural environments). He began teleporting members of these
species to Castillo.
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1) - The Conservator teleported a grizzly bear in Montana right from under Wolverine's nose.
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1) - The Conservator teleported a family of three monk seals in the Mediterranean sea from the presence of Namor the Sub-Mariner.
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1) - The Conservator teleported a white rhinoceros in Africa from the presence of the visiting Ka-Zar and Shanna.
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1) - A pilot observed various endangered species on an uncharted Pacific island, north of New Guinea and South of the Caroline Islands. He informed Dr. Coral Morrison's organization of this finding.
(Wolverine:
Global Jeopardy#1) - The X-Men's computers helped Wolverine trace the
teleporter's energy. Namor commanded the sea life to lead him to the location of
the missing seals. Dr. Coral Morrison informed Ka-Zar and Shanna of the island
containing the endangered species.
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1 - BTS) - Zabu summoned Devil Dinosaur to the island to act as back-up.
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1) - Wolverine arrived first, followed soon by Ka-Zar, Shanna, and Zabu, and finally by Namor, with each initially blaming each other for the disappearances. After Shanna was knocked out during the battle, the Conservator appeared, denouncing them as being obsessed with their own petty squabbles and limited outlooks. He then brought them to his base and identified the island as Castillo. Explaining his motives, the Conservator trapped his guests within energy cages, intending for them to die there rather than risk interfering with his plans. The Conservator ignored their complaints that he was going at his mission all wrong, telling them that he didn't hear the animals complaining. Just then, Devil Dinosaur smashed through the building and shattered the Conservator's machinery, which freed his former prisoners. Shanna then explained to him that they were not just fighting for the right of the animals to live, but also for their right to live in a world that welcomed them instead of hiding them. She further explained that hiding solved nothing, and that he should be educating mankind: fighting for the glory and health of the biosphere, instead of creator an insular monument to his own ego.
(Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1) - Soon thereafter, the former Conservator signed over Castillo to the authorities as a wildlife preserve resort. He spoke publically, announcing his hope to create a living, public memorial of what the world had once been. A blend of animal -- two- and four-legged -- co-existing with nature rather than savaging it. He instructed all who visited Castillo to take with them a reminder of the past...and a warning of what they must be again if they hoped to survive the 21st century and beyond.
Comments: Created by Peter David, Richard Howell, and Bill Anderson.
Wolverine: Global Jeopardy was produced in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund. Every other page features pictures and facts on endangered species.
Profile by Snood.
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images: (without ads)
Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1, p9, face, close-up
p10, panel 1 (full body) and 5 (base)
p14, panel 3 (civilian)
Appearances:
Wolverine: Global Jeopardy#1 (December, 1993) - Peter David (writer), Richard
Howell (penciler), Bill Anderson (inker), Glenn Herdling (editor)
Last updated: 11/10/08
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