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Basilisk is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe who first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #16.Basilisk had the rather unlikely real name of Basil Elks. He was a common criminal from Norristown,PA who was trying to steal a mystical gem from a museum when he was shot at by a security guard. Instead of striking Elks, the bullet hit and shattered the gem. The shards of the gem struck Elks, transforming him into the Basilisk: his skin became green and scaly and his eyes large and red. As the Basilisk he possessed superhuman physical attributes and could generate and manipulate energy via beams projected from his eyes; this energy could generate heat and ice and allowed him to fly. The gem that empowered him was actually a Kree artifact called an Alpha Stone which had crash-landed on the Earth nillennia ago along with another gem, the Omega stone. The Basilisk sought the second gem to increase his powers. While in the primitive Savage Land he obtained it only to fall into a pit of magmaThis article is about the type of rock. For magmas in mathematics, see Magma (algebra). For the experimental jazz band, see Magma (band). For the computer algebra system, see Magma computer algebra system. For the EDA software company, see Magma Design Au. The Omega Stone acually solidified the magma, encasing the Basilisk in a protective shell. He was later freed by an underground race of subterraneans. Now powered by both stones, he fought Spider-ManNew York City. Spider-Man (Peter Benjamin Parker, usually simply Peter Parker is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 ( 1962). Spider-Man is the quintes and the ThingThis article is about the comic book character. For other meanings of thing see Thing (disambiguation). Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm aka The Thing is a fictional character from the Marvel Universe, a founding member of the superhero team the Fantastic Four in New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York,. He created a volcanoThis article is about volcanoes geology. For the action movie see: Volcano (movie). A volcano (plural, volcanoes) is a geological landform (usually a mountain) where magma (rock of the earth's interior made molten or liquid by high pressure and temperatur in the Hudson RiverThe Hudson River called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. It is named for Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Netherlands,, only to once again fall into magma and be petrified. Upon resurfacing, he decided to attack Four Freedoms Plaza, the headquarters of the Fantastic FourThe Fantastic Four is a team of comic book superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, they first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 ( November 1961). One of the most important comics of the Silver Age of comic books, this is, the group to which the Thing belonged. However as soon as he appeared he was shot and killed by the vigilanteFor the aircraft, see A-5 Vigilante. In modern terms, vigilantes are militias or police which attempt law enforcement, in the usual phrase, "by taking the law into their own hands". Vigilantes often operate in secret. In the United States vigilantism was called the Scourge of the Underworld.
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