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The origin of the creature known, as Modam has not been fully revealed. She was a woman experimented on by the criminal scientific organization AIM. |
The Avenger; Dr. Pym was led to believe that his first wife, Maria, was alive and being held captive in a prison in the Balkan nation Bratislava, which also served as part of that country's superhuman research complex. Accompanied by his allies, the Avengers, Dr. Pym found what he believed was his wife attached to a huge life-support system. Although she was alive, she was not unchanged: Her brain was freakishly large and encapsulated in a glass dome. The woman, calling herself Maria, explained that she had been subjected to experiments designed to increase the intelligence of apes; these experiments had caused her brain to expand. She pleaded with her husband to end her misery. |
Refusing to kill her, Dr. Pym returned with her to the Avengers' compound, where he feverishly worked to find a cure that would reverse the expansion of her artificially enhanced brain. He was making progress, and had just completed a mobile support system for her, when the woman rendered Dr. Pym unconscious with a blast of knockout gas. She escaped to the headquarters of the criminal organization AIM, where she underwent further mutations, becoming the creature called MODAM. |