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Glob (comics)

The Glob is the name of different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

The first Glob debuted in The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #121 (November 1969), and was created by Roy Thomas and Herb Trimpe. Roy Thomas has stated that the character was a conscious imitation of the Heap. Thomas intended to call the character the Shape, but editor Stan Lee thought that name sounded too feminine, and insisted on the name "the Glob".

The second Glob debuted in The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #389 (January 1992), and was created by Tom Field and Gary Barker.

Joe Timms is a petty criminal who escaped from prison to see his dying wife, only to drown in a swamp bog. After the Hulk throws nuclear waste into the bog, Timms is revived as the Glob, a slimy monster with immense strength, but little intelligence. Subsequently, the Glob battles Hulk before being dissolved by an experimental anti-radiation fluid. He is later resurrected by the Leader before being destroyed in an explosion.

The Glob's brain later reformed into the Golden Brain. Yagzan and the Cult of Entropy used it as a weapon, but lost by the Entropists in an encounter with the Man-Thing. The Golden Brain psionically molded itself into an amnesiac blond-haired man. The man had been captured and mutated by Yagzan into a clay-based lifeform of the Glob. It battled the Man-Thing, reducing itself to mud again, which suffocates Yagzan, and killed him.

However, it was later revealed that the Glob had been enslaved by the Collector. It eventually rebelled against him with the assistance of the Hulk and the Man-Thing.

The Glob is then taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and joins the Paranormal Containment Unit.

In the Avengers: Standoff! storyline, the Glob appears as an inmate of Pleasant Hill, a gated community established by S.H.I.E.L.D.

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