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Magma
Personal Info:
Real Name: Jonathan Darque
Also Known As: No known Alias
Place Of Birth: Dayton, Ohio
First Appearance: Marvel Team-Up Vol.1 #110 (1981) Bronze Age Villain
Known Associates: No known Associates
Group Affiliation: Roxxon
Base Of Operations: Mobile
Grudges: Iron Man and Spider-Man
Creators: David Michelinie and Herb Trimpe
Gallery:

Powers:

Body Armour: Magma wears a battlesuit that provides some protection against physical and energy attacks. It also protects against heat and flame.

Magma Projector:: Magma's primary weapon is his magma projector, which fits over his right hand and is connected to a large tank on his backpack which contains molten lava. Using the projector, Magma can project streams of superheated molten lava.

Heat Beam:: Magma's helmet visor can fire blasts of geo-thermal energy.

Power Glove:: Magma wears a power glove on his left hand that enhances it's strength.

Axe:: Magma sometimes wields a special miner's axe.

Vehicle:: Magma's most powerful weapon is his walking pod, a vehicle about the size of a compact car equipped with four powerful legs and a pair of arms. The pod can fire streams of molten lava which causes fire damage. The pod's control cockpit seats one and is equipped with its own oxygen supply for underwater operations.

Origins:

Jonathan Darque was a legend in engineering circles who ran his own mining company using innovative methods and machinery to gather the earth's treasures more abundantly and efficiently than ever before. Darque saw himself as being essential to helping the USA meet its energy demands, but he found himself the subject of increasing numbers of protestors who opposed the scorched, barren earth he left in his wake. Darque ignored the protestors and continued his work until his wife, who meant more to him than even progress was killed in a car wreck while swerving to avoid demonstrators at one of his excavation sites. Soon after, a class action suit was filed against his company. Darque lost and was ordered to permanently close down all operations. Darque swore to use his greatest remaining resource, his mind, to gain vengeance on the ignorant society that had done this to him. Darque designed a costume and special weaponry to become Magma and recruited a number of agents to assist him.

Notes:

Magma at Marvel Database

Magma at Marvel Universe: The Appendix