Was Jack Monroe the ORIGINAL Scourge?

[Montressor]

Interesting article that puts together a few clues...I'm thinking Jack might've always been Scourge, right from the start (at the very least he was the most driven and active, given that there were others). I read the Captain America arc and many of the issues leading up to it and never noticed the little hints.

https://fanfix.wordpress.com/tag/jack-monroe/

[XPac]

Interesting article that puts together a few clues...I'm thinking Jack might've always been Scourge, right from the start (at the very least he was the most driven and active, given that there were others). I read the Captain America arc and many of the issues leading up to it and never noticed the little hints.

https://fanfix.wordpress.com/tag/jack-monroe/

I'd certainly buy that theory.

It's always disappointing when they hide someone's identity and make it a mystery but it ends up not being anyone actually known to the readers. Loved the Scourge storyline back in the day and I was always disappointed it didn't have a better pay off. Jack definitely would have been a cool reveal.

[CentralPower]

Jack Monroe as the original Scourge is fanfic bunkum.

Originally, Scourge was an editorial tool for removing c and d-grade3 characters from Marvel's roster of villains. Gruenwald gave the character a paper-thin origin, right before killing him off. The origin did not even work entirely with what was shown furing Scourge's various appearances. (One appearance all but established a female Scourge. Gruenwald assumed that the female Scourge was a very convincing disguise.)

But, comics (and Gruenwald) cannot leave well enough alone, and there was never a scab that could not be picked.

Through various contrary (and back-written) reveals), Scourge was revealed to be a conspiracy that was alternatively started by or co-opted by the Red Skull and/or a Golden Age hero. The above-mentioned female Scourge (the result of an artist mistake) was back-written as a new character.

The Scourge shown in "Captain America #319 was meant to be the only Scourge. He was the sibling of a z-grade villain who took up vigilantism to redeem the family name of some-such. After Gruenwald's exercise in scab-picking, the Scourge conspiracy was the brain-child of a Golden Age hero (the Angel) who wanted to take a more aggressive stance against crime. There was also a Scourge program operated by the Red Skull and another by the Feds.

It is all really stupid, and Marvel needs to leave it alone.