LAND SHARK
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-89923) human mutate
Occupation: Grit magazine salesman
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Ivory, Wolverina, people in general don't like him
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Sea Monkey That Walks Like a Man
Base of Operations: Unrevealed
First Appearance: What The--?!#15 (November, 1991)
Powers/Abilities: As the Land Shark he possessed superhuman strength (Class 10), a mouth filled with sharp shark teeth and thick shark skin. Despite his superhuman abilities his psyche was still very fragile and he was unable to stay in his mutated form if he wasn't angry.
Height: (Land Shark) 10' 11"; (human form) 4'11"(by approximation)
Weight: (Land Shark) 528 lbs.; (human form) 98 lbs.
Eyes: (Land Shark) Red; (human form) Unrevealed (presumably brown)
Hair: (Land Shark) None; (human form) Black
History: (What The--?!#15 (fb) ) - Insults from a bully on the beach inspired the weakling to order a body building milk shake from the back of a comic. They sent him the wrong package, which he only discovered after drinking it. The shake mutated the 98 lbs. weakling into the powerful Land Shark. (What The--?!#15) - The Land Shark attacked the beach, causing everyone but the sunbathing Wolverina and Ivory to run for the sandhills. The heroines quickly put on their costumes to take on Land Shark, who hit them through a lifeguard stand. Angered by Ivory telling Wolverina to trash Land Shark, the former weakling told them how he became the Land Shark and Wolverina made fun of his origin story. Land Shark tossed Ivory into the sea and rammed Wolverina into the ground and kept beating her up. Ivory surmised compliments could reverse Land Shark's transformation and when it caught Land Shark's attention Wolverina jumped on board with Ivory's plan. Because nobody had ever given him any attentoin or found him attractive Land Shark was unable to take the pressure and transformed back into his weak, human form. Ivory had to hold Wolverina back from killing the weakling afterward. (What The--?!#15 - BTS) - The former Land Shark promised Wolverina and Ivory to reform and find a job. He found a job as a Grit magazine salesman and sold the newspapers to guilt-ridden relatives and too-polite neighbors. One week later he had amasses millions of dollars. He bought a condo, a microwave, a car for each day of the week, a copy of all thiry-five alternate covers of X-Men II#1 and a shoe....only one. He planned to buy the other the next day. (What The--?!#15) - The former Land Shark returned to the beach and everyone, including Wolverina and Ivory, ran away to avoid the Grit magazine salesman. Comments: Created by Scott Lobdell (writer), Rurik Tyler (pencils) & Kez Wilson (inks). Profile by Markus Raymond. CLARIFICATIONS: images: (without ads) Appearances:
First Posted: 04/25/2015 Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know. Non-Marvel Copyright info Special Thanks to www.g-mart.com for hosting the Appendix, Master List, etc.!
Land Shark has no known connection to:
What The--?!#15, p11 (main image)
What The--?!#15, p15, pan5 (human form)
What The--?!#15 (November, 1991) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Rurik Tyler (pencils), Kez Wilson (inks), Reneé Witterstaetter (editor)
Last updated: 04/25/2015
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