LOHAN
Real Name: Peter Lohan
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Former electronics technician for Datalink Information Systems
Group Membership: Formerly Datalink;
former leader of a group of Datalink employees plotting to
steal a satellite (Andrew, Charley, Jeremy, Jonathan, Mike)
Affiliations: Formerly the Datalink employees joining him on his mission
Enemies: Mr. Chiyo, SHIELD (Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Nick Fury, Bruno Kreah, Kate Nevile, Network Nina, and Alexander Pierce)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: The Satellite Monster
called "the mechanized marauder Lohan " on the cover of
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#17
Base of Operations: Formerly
Datalink (location not specified, but the base from which he
stole the shuttle would have to be Houston or Cape Canaveral)
First Appearance: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#15 (September, 1990)
Powers/Abilities: Lohan was roughly 25' tall and was
strong enough to hold two adult men in his hand, preventing their escape.
Composed of both organic matter and circuitry, he could survive in a vacuum
unaided and could navigate in space. He fed on mental energy, leaving his
victims seemingly dead, mindless husks. He could also absorb information from
any nearby source, and both mental power and data could increase his power.
Charged by the mental power of several victims, he could outrace a
rocket-powered space shuttle, survive the explosion of a laser-powered
satellite, and even survive re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, though the
latter nearly destroyed him. He could presumably regain his strength by
absorbing psychic energy from others. Further, once contacted by a telepath, he
could trace that being by his or her psychic energy and even take control of
that being's mind.
Lohan could also fashion parts of his body into
energy-blasters, though he was immune to the blasters himself.
Peter Lohan was a passable electronics technician.
History:
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#15 (fb) - BTS) - Peter Lohan was a technically
proficient (but intellectually mediocre) technician employed at Datalink, where
his records gradually became filled with his history of failed exams, errors,
and mistakes.
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#17 (fb) - BTS) - He developed an extreme inferiority complex due to his average intelligence while working around much smarter folk.
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#15 (fb) - BTS) - Lohan joined with a number of similarly mediocre Datalink employees with inferiority complexes, and they plotted to take control of a satellite that was studying the secrets of the cosmos. They figured they could sell or use this information to gain great wealth and power; they further figured that this information would make them seem smarter so that they could get better jobs.
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#15 (fb) - BTS) - From a NASA base (Houston or Canaveral?), Lohan tapped into information on NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Agency) and ESA (European Space Agency), who were using Datalink's powerful computers to test their new satellite designs.
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#15) - Lohan's theft was
discovered by NASA and ESA, but as a private company, Datalink refused an
official investigation that would have uncovered the theft. Instead, Mr. Chiyo
confronted Lohan with the information and demanded his resignation (instead of
firing him, to avoid a scandal). After meeting with his allies, Lohan
accelerated their plan.
The next day, Lohan shot Chiyo dead, then poisoned the base's
water supply to knock out everyone present, after which he and his group hijacked
the NASA shuttle and the two satellites it carried, flying into space with them.
NASA contacted SHIELD for help, and -- with no shuttles in
working order -- Nick Fury obtained a shuttle from Reed Richards, which the
Human Torch and Thing helped launch into orbit from the SHIELD Helicarrier. As
the SHIELD crew -- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Nick Fury, Bruno Kreah, Kate
Nevile, Network Nina, and Alexander Pierce -- approached the shuttle Lohan's
group had stolen, Lohan was notified, and he ordered the release of limpets (mine devices that damaged the SHIELD shuttle's navigations systems) and left them
on a collision course with the stolen shuttle.
As a result, SHIELD was commissioned to find the source of the theft, and Nick Fury -- posing as potential customer "Mr. Anger" -- infiltrated Datalink and blew up one of their bases.
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#16) - A glancing blow from the
SHIELD satellite damaged Lohan's group's rear stabilizer, but Lohan assured the
crew they could repair it and instructed them to finish preparing the shuttle.
Soon after, SHIELD managed a tether-line to the stolen shuttle and boarded it,
and Nina telepathically determined the group's goal. Lohan encouraged the group
not to give up but rather to confront the SHIELD agents, but he secretly
intended to sacrifice his allies so that he could still succeed in their
mission. As they fought SHIELD, he prepped the info-gathering satellite, but was
discovered by Neville and confronted by Fury, but Lohan managed to stun Fury
with a punch to the stomach and then launch him away on a rocket-chair. Lohan
activated the satellite, but instead of sending the data back to his group's
downlink station as planned, the transmissions were absorbed into Lohan himself,
whose body somehow interfered with the signal. Lohan had a brief moment of
elation as the data flowed into him, but he quickly realized it was too much for
him, and he exploded in a flash of light.
Lohan's mind and bodily remnants somehow merged with the
data-collecting satellite, and he was reborn as a techno-organic giant, hungry
for knowledge, and it confronted the SHIELD crew in the stolen shuttle (all of
SHIELD had boarded this shuttle, while Lohan's surviving allies all ended up in
Reed Richards' shuttle)
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#17) - Lohan snatched up Fury,
Kreah, Nina, and Pierce, causing Nina a lot of mental feedback. Valentina used
the shuttle's remote arm to punch Lohan in the head, causing him to drop them,
but Lohan recovered and grabbed Fury again before the shuttle doors could be
closed. Fury tore some of Lohan's wires loose and used them to shock Lohan, then
escaped back to the shuttle. The shuttle doors closed, cutting off a piece of
Lohan's finger as he tried to reach through. Still disoriented, Lohan drifted
through space until he reached the stolen shuttle, where the other thieves
recognized his voice and reasoned what happened. As some of them told Lohan he
could get them safely away from SHIELD, he instead scooped up three of them,
consumed their minds, feeding on the information present, and then considered
doing the same to everyone on Earth; Nina felt this nearby mental assault as
psychic pain. Lohan returned to the SHIELD shuttle and demanded they let him in
so the shuttle could shield him from the heat of re-entry so he could get to
Earth safely; his transmission, broadcast through their communication system,
proved too powerful and blew it up. They took off, intending to leave him
behind, but Lohan managed to tear open one of their fuel tanks. Lacking enough
fuel to make a controlled flight back to Earth, Fury instead piloted the shuttle
to the moon, where it had a rough landing in a crater.
Lohan then returned to Richards' shuttle and told the crew
to take him in pursuit of the SHIELD crew or he would kill them. If they helped,
he promised that they would be free (knowledge would set them free).
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#18) - Lohan and his former
allies landed on the moon, and he created some weapons for them to use against
SHIELD. Two of the men turned the weapons on Lohan, but he had insured he
couldn't be harmed by his own weapons, and he then vengefully drained their
minds.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Reed Richards used information from
his own telescope to create a model of Lohan, which he could study to determine
its weaknesses.
Fury & Nina observed Lohan trying to adjust to his new form,
and Nina leapt atop his back, attempting to use her psychic powers to overload
his mind. The process nearly proved too much for Nina, but it did overload and
drop Lohan. Kreah and Pierce salvaged the Apollo and other vehicles left on the
moon for parts and fuel, which they used to repair and re-launch the shuttle. As
they did so, however, Lohan recovered, and he used the mental link he had
established with Nina to track down their shuttle. Realizing what was happening,
Fury punched Nina out, but Lohan was close enough already and he and several of
his enslaved former allies arrived within the crater. Aboard the Apollo moon
lander and carrying a blaster weapon, Fury confronted the attackers.
(Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#19) - Fury leapt off the moon
lander, sending it to crash into Lohan, but this stunned Fury as much as Lohan,
and Fury was forced to flee the Lohan-blaster-wielding shuttle-thieves. When he
had led Lohan and his men far enough away, Fury then ordered the SHIELD crew to
launch the shuttle. Fury raced back towards the shuttle, and as Lohan pursued
him, Fury turned and tackled Lohan at his ankle. Possessing a high center of
gravity due to his gigantic head, Lohan toppled backwards, and Fury boarded the
shuttle before Lohan could regain his feet. Unable to match the shuttle's speed,
Lohan returned to his former crewmates and consumed all of their mental energy
(though one of them, Michael, used Lohan's blaster to kill himself to prevent
Lohan from assimilating him). Empowered, Lohan took to space, tracked the SHIELD
crew via his link to Nina, then took control of Nina, forcing her to open the
shuttle cargo bay doors as he approached. Fury attempted to use the other
satellite aboard the stolen shuttle, part of the Strategic Defense Initiative,
to blast Lohan, but the satellite's weapons proved defective. Fury instead then
activated the satellite's self-destruct system, launched it far from the
shuttle, and then sent the rocket chair into Lohan's gaping mouth as he closed
on the shuttle. The rocket carried Lohan right into the satellite, which blew
up, badly injuring him. Lohan tried to block the shuttle's path after Fury had
reboarded and closed the door, but Fury simply rammed Lohan and carried him into
the atmosphere, where he burned up from heat of re-entry.
After the shuttle had made a watery landing (with the
Fantastic Four and the US Navy waiting for them), the remnants of Lohan, still
clinging to life, grabbed Fury's leg, intending to drain his mind, but Fury
stomped the remnants into pieces.
Later, a pair of fishers named Buford and Art caught seemingly inert fragments of Lohan on their fishing line.
Comments: Created by D.G. Chichester, Bill Jaaska, and Romeo Tanghal.
Perhaps Fury was just overconfident and Lohan was desperate to succeed, but I don't see Fury getting knocked out by a punch to the stomach (while wearing a big space suit) from a computer technician.
I'm no astronomer, but is seems hard to believe that it took less fuel to navigate to land directly on the moon than to just push yourself into Earth's gravitational field from orbit. And that they'd have landed within walking distance of the other moon landing sites. And then it's even harder to believe that they could have gotten enough fuel from the Apollo landing vehicle and whatever else they scavenged to get back to Earth.
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images: (without ads)
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#15, p13, panel 1 and 3 (Peter Lohan face and body)
#16, last page (Satellite Monster)
#19, p19, panel 5 (remnants)
Appearances:
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#15 (September, 1990) - by D.G. Chichester
(writer), Bill Jaaska (penciler), Romeo Tanghal (inker), and Mike Rockwitz
(editor)
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#16-17 (October-November, 1990) - by D.G.
Chichester (writer), Herb Trimpe (penciler), Romeo Tanghal (inker), and Mike
Rockwitz (editor)
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#18 (December, 1990) - by D.G. Chichester (writer),
Herb Trimpe (penciler), Fred Fredericks (inker), and Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD II#19 (January, 1991) - by D.G. Chichester (writer),
Herb Trimpe (penciler), Fred Fredericks (inker), and Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Last updated: 08/10/07
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