Affiliations:
Dr. Doom (Victor von Doom), Glory Grant, Jackal (Ben Reilly), Lizard
(Curt Connors), Carlos
Lobo, Esmelda
Valdez
Enemies:
Andrew,
Arranger
(Oswald P. Silkworth), Captain America (Steve Rogers),
Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov),
Hammerhead, Kingpin (Wilson Fisk), Persuader
(Roland Rayburn), Punisher
(Frank Castle), Scarlet Spider (Kaine), Spider-Man
(Peter Parker), Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy) of Earth-65, Teddy Tones, Ramone Valdez
Known
Relatives: Carlos Lobo
(brother, deceased), unidentified mother (deceased), unidentified
father, Esmeralda Lobo (sister), other unidentified sister(s) (see
comments)
Aliases: (with Carlos) Los Hermanos Lobos/The
Brother Wolves
Base
of Operations: The
Plaza Hotel, New York City;
formerly a mansion on Grapevine Lake,
near Dallas,
Texas
First
Appearance: Spectacular
Spider-Man II#143 (October, 1988)
Powers/Abilities:
A mutant, Eduardo Lobo could transform beneath the light of the full
moon
into a superhumanly strong (lifting ten tons) and durable humanoid
wolf
creature. In this form, he was resistant to conventional
weaponry,
but could be harmed by silver; he also possessed enhanced senses of
hearing, scent, and vision. He retained his human intelligence
and
power of speech in this form, but was subject to savage animal
instincts. He apparently could not transform into this form
during
the daytime or when the moon is not full, nor could he retain human
form during a full moon. In
his human form, Lobo possessed peak human strength and agility, and
excellent night vision. He was a skilled criminal mastermind,
and spoke fluent Spanish and English.
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 200 lbs.
Eyes: (Human form) brown; (werewolf form) red
Hair: (Human form) black; (werewolf form) grey (see
comments)
History:
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#152 (fb) ) -
Carlos and Eduardo Lobo's mother died giving birth to them; they never
knew their father. They grew up alone on the streets of
Zaragoza,
Mexico, stealing to survive. Even then, they always stole by
night. Eduardo often watched the beautiful and wealthy Esmelda
Valdez riding her horse on her father's ranch; one evening, her horse
scented him and bolted, throwing Esmelda to the ground. Eduardo
helped her up, and over the course of the next two months they fell in
love, and became inseperable. One night, however, beneath the
light of the full moon, Esmelda's brother Ramone, who disapproved of
the relationship, came after them on horseback with a gang of men.
As Ramone lashed him with a whip, Eduardo transformed for the
first time into a lupine monstrosity; in a bestial rage he slew
Ramone,
his men, and Esmelda.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#143 (fb) ) -
Together,
Carlos (who possessed the same powers as his brother) and Eduardo
killed the leaders of the warring gangs of south
Texas, and united the survivors behind them as los Hermanos de la Luna
(the Brotherhood of the Moon). A year later, they moved their
headquarters to a mansion on Grapevine Lake, outside Dallas.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#143 (fb) ) -
Carlos and
Eduardo were arrested and tried, but freed after a mistrial.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#143) - A year and
a half
after the Lobo takeover of the south Texas gangs, the Kingpin and his
right-hand man the Arranger sent their agent the Persuader, their
henchman Andrew, and the brainwashed Punisher to Dallas to assassinate
the Lobo Brothers, fearing their ambitions. They arrived at
their
Grapevine Lake mansion and shot Carlos in the shoulder, but
Spider-Man's timely arrival resulted in the Punisher breaking the
Persuader's mind control; she shot and killed
Andrew and the Persuader
and left. As Spider-Man departed as well, Carlos swore
vengeance
on the Kingpin.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#145 - BTS) -
Arriving in
New York, Carlos or Eduardo (or both) brutally murdered Teddy Tones, a
courier for the Kingpin, at the Central Park Zoo, leaving KINGPIN:
WOLVES BITE BACK scrawled on a cage wall in his blood.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#146 - BTS) -
Carlos and
Eduardo (or both) slaughtered twenty of the Kingpin's lieutenants in
the Starlight Room ballroom, leaving KINGPIN - WOLVES KILL written in
blood on a tablecloth.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#146) - Eduardo
"accidentally" bumped into Glory Grant in the Daily Bugle's lobby,
knocking her purse out of her hands. Picking it up for her, he
apologized profusely and insisted on taking her to lunch.
(Web of Spider-Man I#47) - Having spent the past day
together, Eduardo and Glory walked through a shopping center; when the
escalator they were on went berzerk (as it was possessed by demons
under the command of N'astirh), Eduardo grabbed Glory and leapt to
safety.
(Web of Spider-Man I#48) - The next day, with the
streets swarming with demons, Glory and Eduardo raced to the Bugle.
They encountered a possessed, monstrous forklift; when it
attacked them, Eduardo slew it with a fallen pipe.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#149) - In wolf form,
Eduardo ambushed a cash delivery at the Kingpin's vault, killing seven
of the Kingpin's men and scrawling KINGPIN: THE WOLVES COME FOR YOU!
on
the vault wall in blood.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#149 - BTS) - The next day,
Eduardo met Glory for lunch.
(Web of Spider-Man I#50 - BTS) - Carlos and
Eduardo
(or both) attacked one of the Kingpin's ships, killing the crew and
writing WOLVES TAKE REVENGE in blood on the hull.
(Web of Spider-Man I#50) - At their suite in the
Plaza Hotel, Carlos asked Eduardo how his seduction of Glory Grant was
proceeding; Eduardo assured him that she would do anything he asked.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#150) - Eduardo slew a
number of the Kingpin's men in a subway station; Spider-Man, hearing
the screams, arrived to investigate, but he only caught a glimpse of
Eduardo before he crept away to Glory's apartment, where he was almost
spotted by Glory's colleague, Joy Mercado. The next morning,
Glory found Eduardo in human form on her floor, naked and bleeding.
As she tended to his wounds, he asked her to steal the Bugle's
files on the Kingpin for him. She was initially reluctant, but
soon succumbed to Eduardo's charms.
(Web of Spider-Man I#51) - At the Bugle, Glory gave
the stolen Fisk file to Eduardo. That night, Eduardo, in wolf
form, attacked the Arranger's limousine. Spider-Man intervened,
and narrowly avoided being disemboweled by the lupine Eduardo, who
finally fled when the Arranger's driver shot him four times in the
chest.
(Amazing Spider-Man I#316) - Peter Parker passed by
Glory and Eduardo at the Bugle.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#151) - While going over
the Fisk file with los Hermanos de la Luna at the Plaza, Eduardo was
interrupted by Glory, who demanded to know who his "friends" were.
Although he tried to make excuses, she soon realized that
Eduardo
was a criminal. That night, Glory returned to her apartment to
find Eduardo already there, claiming that he could no longer trust her
- and as the full moon rose, he transformed, and advanced towards
her...
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#152) - Glory passed out,
and Eduardo hesitated, eventually realizing that he could not kill
her,
as he had killed Esmelda. When she awoke, he explained his
origins to her, and claimed that she had "tamed the wolf in [his]
soul...".
(Web of Spider-Man I#53) - As they prepared
to
assault Fisk Tower, the Lobo Brothers (both in wolf form) and the
Hermanos prepared their assault helicopter at LaGuardia Airport.
Spider-Man showed up and briefly battled them before they
escaped
on the helicopter.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#153) - Carlos,
Eduardo,
and the Hermanos launched their assault on Fisk Tower.
(Web of Spider-Man I#54) - Carlos and
Eduardo leapt
off the helicopter and tore through the Kingpin's men, eventually
working their way to the Kingpin's office. He taunted them,
and
they tore him apar
t...or they thought they had. The Kingpin
was
gone, having left a stuffed dummy and a remote speaker behind.
Carlos and Eduardo departed, leaving KINGPIN - YOU CAN RUN
BUT
YOU CANNOT HIDE written in blood on his office wall. Later,
back
at their hotel, they plotted to draw the Kingpin out, and Carlos
accused Eduardo of having gone soft thanks to his relationship with
Grant.
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#154) - Eduardo came to
meet Glory outside the Daily Bugle building, but she was lost in
thought, and didn't see him. When he finally caught up with her,
he assured her that the war with the Kingpin would be over soon.
(Dr. Doom's Revenge (comic) (fb) - BTS) -
Eduardo was recruited by Dr. Doom as part of his Doom's Brigade, a
group of super-villains who would oppose any superheroes who tried to
prevent his plot to threaten New York with a stolen Thermo C4VG
missile.
(Dr. Doom's Revenge (comic) ) - While Doom's Brigade
waited to be given someone to fight, they began brawling amongst
themselves. Eduardo faced off against Batroc, but Doom broke up the
melee, informing them that they were there to serve him and would do
only as he commanded.
(Dr.
Doom's Revenge (game) ) - When Captain America and Spider-Man
infiltrated Doom's castle, Eduardo opposed and was defeated by
Spider-Man.
(Web of Spider-Man I#55) - On the night of
the full
moon, Carlos, Eduardo, and the Hermanos attacked the streets of New
York, causing mass chaos. As the sun began to rise, they
escaped
in a van. The next day, the Kingpin contacted them, arranging
a
meeting at the 1964 World's Fair grounds in Queens. Eduardo
insisted on bringing Glory along, which Carlos objected to, but
allowed. At the meet, the Lobos demanded the Arranger's head
in
exchange for peace - but before the Kingpin could answer, men sent by
rival crimelords Hammerhead and Chameleon arrived and opened fire.
As Eduardo transformed into his lupine form, he shoved Glory
under the van, and told her her loved her. Eduardo lunged at the
Arranger; Spider-Man knocked him aside and took on Eduardo himself.
As they grappled, he vowed to kill Spider-Man, but Glory picked
up the Arranger's gun (which had been loaded with silver bullets) and
fired it at Spider-Man; she accidentally shot and killed Eduardo
instead. He died in her arms, reverting to human form as he did
so.
(Web of Spider-Man II#56) - Eduardo's body was
returned to Texas for burial.
SECRET WARS III HAPPENED
(Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy#2 (fb) ) - Lobo's
body was retrieved by the new Jackal and cloned, along with dozens of
Spider-Man's other friends and foes, as part of a plan to conquer
death itself. They were housed in the Underworld, a subterranean
section of the Jackal's New U headquarters in San Francisco, and given
a daily pill to stave off clone degeneration.
(Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy#2) - The Jackal
unveiled Lobo and the other resurrected villains to Spider-Man while
he was on a tour of the New U facilities. When the Jackal's Gwen Stacy
clone revealed that she was actually Earth-65's Gwen Stacy, who'd
infiltrated New U, Lobo and the other villains gave chase.
(Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy#3) - As the villains
spread out, Eduardo Lobo, Mysterio, Stilt-Man, Prowler, and Jean
DeWolff searched the roof, finding only a broken grate.
(Dead
No More: The Clone Conspiracy#3 / Amazing
Spider-Man IV#23 / Prowler II#4) - The Jackal moved
Lobo and the other clones to Haven, an idyllic small town built
beneath the Transamerica Pyramid. As they lined up for their daily
pill, the Jackal tried again to convince Spider-Man of the rightness
of his campaign against death. When Spider-Man refused, he ordered the
villains to kill him. Before long, however, the Jackal's erstwhile
ally Dr. Octopus activated a device that triggered the mass
degeneration of all the Jackal's clones, including Lobo.
(Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy#5 / Prowler II#5) - Maddened by
the agonizing degeneration, Lobo and the other villains tried to
escape the signal, despite the risk of infecting the world with the
Carrion Virus; they were contained by Jean DeWolff, Spider-Woman,
Prowler, and the Scarlet Spider. Although a counter-signal that
stabilized any surviving clones was eventually broadcast, Lobo was not
present for the cleanup; he may have escaped, or completely
degenerated.
Comments:
Created by Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema.
So, what colour are the Lobo Brothers in their wolf
forms? In Spectacular #150, 151, and 152, and Web #55, Carlos is
brown, Eduardo is black. In Web #53 and 54, they are both black.
In Web #51, Eduardo is brown. Plus Carlos is black in his
main image from Update '89. I like having some distinction
between the Lobos, so I'm gonna say that Eduardo is black, and Carlos
is brown.
While The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in
Dr. Doom's Revenge is not explicitly Earth-616 canon, I don't see any
reason why it can't be, so I'm cramming it in.
Carlos Lobo has a profile in the Official
Handbook of
the Marvel Universe: Update '89 edition, but Eduardo does not, I guess
because he was dead by then. He does have a profile in the manual
for The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge,
but it has a bunch of inaccurate information (it misidentifes Esmelda
as Bonita, and says the Lobos built their criminal organization in
NYC,
not Texas). Maybe it was based on preliminary story notes?
The game and its pack-in comic also colour Eduardo's fur brown,
but his profile notes that he has dark grey fur.
Carlos and Eduardo both have a prominent gray streak
in their hair in their first appearance, but it disappears in
subsequent issues.
Carlos' OHotMU profile mentions that he has
"unnamed
sisters". This seems to be an error, as they're never mentioned
in the comics themselves, which depict the Lobos living alone on the
streets; maybe it was based on preliminary story notes, too? At least
one sister with the same powers as her brothers first appeared in
Scarlet Spider#12.1 (February, 2013).
Profile
by Minor
Irritant.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Eduardo Lobo has no known connections to
- Lobo, Hyborian era, companion of Zelata @
Giant-Size Conan#3
- Lobo,
lupine companion of the Red Wolf of the Old West @ Marvel Spotlight
I#1
- Lobo,
lupine companion of Red Wolf (Thomas Thunderhead) @ Red Wolf#7
- Lobo,
original lupine companion of Red Wolf (Will Talltrees) @ Avengers
I#80
- Lobo,
second lupine companion of Red Wolf (Will Talltrees) @ Marvel Comics
Presents I#72/4
- Lobo,
crooked
landlord @ Within Our Reach
- Lobo, Francisco "Lucky",
gangster, Green Goblin associate @ Amazing Spider-Man I#23
- Lobo,
Maximus,
lupine mutant, head of Lobo Technologies @ Uncanny X-Men I#417
- Lobo
the Duck,
unholy duck/Czarnian fusion @ Lobo the Duck#1
- Lobo,
ill-tempered alien bounty hunter from the Distinguished Competition
- Sheriff Lobo,
haver of misadventures
- Los Lobos,
popular Chicano rock band
- or
any other Mexican mutant werewolf gangsters
Esmelda
Valdez
(Spectacular Spider-Man II#152
(fb) ) - Daughter of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Esmelda
Valdez
met Eduardo Lobo when he helped her after she fell off her
spooked horse. They soon fell in love, but were together for a
mere two months before her brother, Ramone, who disapproved of their
relationship, came after Eduardo. The rage and fear of
the
confrontation activated Eduardo's mutant powers, and when he
transformed, he slew both Ramone and Esmelda.
--Spectacular Spider-Man II#152 (Spectacular Spider-Man
II#152 (fb)
