NUKEFACE
NUKEFACE
Real Name: Unrevealed
Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Vagrant, formerly mine-worker
Group Affiliation: None
Known Relatives: unnamed mother
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile, formerly Houma, Louisiana, Blossomville, Pennsylvania
First Appearance: Saga of Swamp Thing #35 (April, 1985)
Powers: Nukeface's body was highly radioactive, and his touch irradiated organic matter. Nukeface was brain-damaged and physically debilitated, both effects of radiation poisoning. He was addicted to drinking nuclear waste, and always carried some in beer cans.History: (Saga of Swamp Thing
#35 (fb) - BTS) - Wallace Munroe's company got the rights to store nuclear waste
in the Lombard Mine's overflow pits, and one mine-worker developed an unhealthy
fascination with the substance. The worker started drinking nuclear waste, and
although he became radioactive he did not die. His touch was poisonous, and most
anyone who encountered him in the mine ended up dead. He became a regional
boogeyman, and the local children called him Nukeface. Munroe had no choice but
to close the Lombard Mine and seal up the waste. Nukeface was devastated that
his favorite drink was gone, but when he heard that Munroe would be dumping
waste in Houma he followed him there.
(Saga of Swamp Thing #35, 36) - Nukeface met a homeless man named Diagonal Bob,
and accidentally killed him by giving him one of his cans of nuclear waste to
drink. He encountered Swamp Thing, and inadvertently destroyed the Thing's body
with his touch. Nukeface was bitterly disappointed that the waste in Houma was
dumped deep in a bog where he couldn't get at it. He vowed to search every town
in America for more waste to drink.
Comments: Created by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette
and John Totleben.
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