Rick Jones CAPTAIN MARVEL and Marlo Chandler Appreciation 2019

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Rick Jones

A scrappy, rebellious orphan, Rick Jones stumbled into the test site for the Gamma Bomb
and inadvertently caused Bruce Banner to be caught in the blast while trying to save Rick, transforming Banner into the Hulk.
Rick became the Hulk's closest confidant, a member of the Avengers
and a friend and sidekick to heroes like Captain America, Captain Mar-Vell and Rom.

CAPTAIN MARVEL

Cloned from the DNA of the Kree warrior Mar-Vell,
Genis-Vell was implanted with false memories making him believe he was instead Starfox's son.
He was then artificially aged so that he'd be ready to face Mar-Vell's enemies.
Later, he inherits the title of Captain Marvel.

Marlo Chandler

Marlo is the wife of Rick Jones and former lover of the Hulk.
Due to her relationship with Rick, she has often found herself in several superhero adventures and cosmic conflicts.

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When he was a teenager, Rick was the only one who knew that Bruce Banner was the secret identity of the incredible Hulk.

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Avengers #3 Jan 1964
"The Avengers meet Sub-Mariner!"
At their next meeting, the Avengers decide they need to find the Hulk before he causes more trouble.
Iron Man uses his image projector device to communicate with the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man
and the X-Men to ask if they have spotted him, but he has no luck.
Thor comes up with the smart idea of asking Rick Jones to help find the Hulk.
They contact him and Rick sets out into the desert to an area where he could be.

A short while later, Rick discovers the Hulk and leads him to a cave they had used in the past as a refuge.

There, Rick operates a machine that transforms the Hulk back into Bruce Banner.
While asleep, stressful thoughts cause Banner to revert to his Hulk-state and escape.

Rick Jones contacts the Avengers, alerting them to the situation and they travel to the desert to stop him getting out of hand.
After a brief battle, the Hulk escapes onto a passing train and with the help of an empty train carriage,
some industrial cable, and a couple of bags of flour, manages to elude the team.
After laying low, he reaches the sea and is eventually taken onto a ship on the brink of exhaustion.

Under the sea, Namor the Sub-Mariner watches the scene. After the Hulk leaves the ship, the Sub-Mariner meets him on a small island.
After a short fight, Namor suggests they team up and fight the humans together, as they each bear a grudge against humanity.
They form an uneasy alliance, each untrusting of the other, and issue a challenge to the Avengers: to battle at the Rock of Gibraltar!
The villains use old World War II weaponry to attack the Avengers, but Iron Man deflects the shells with his repulsor rays.
Namor disables Iron Man by firing an emery dust pellet at him, clogging up the joints in his armour.
Thor holds the duo at bay while the Wasp finds a tank of oxygen, which is used to blow the dust away and bring Iron Man back into the fight.
The Avengers chase their enemies through the tunnels. Namor plans to use an old air raid siren he has converted into a weapon,
but is caught by Giant-Man and the battle continues. Both the Hulk and Sub-Mariner attempt to lift Thor's hammer but are unable to do so.
At an inopportune moment, the stress causes Hulk to change back into Banner when Namor needs his help the most, and is forced to flee.
Namor, without help from the Hulk, is quickly outmatched and narrowly escapes into the ocean.

Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Paul Reinman

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Also had a short stint as a Hulk himself.

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Ah yes. Peter David took over from Al Milgrom as writer.
The to me very cool thing Milgrom did before David became the writer is that he re-introduced the grey Hulk in

Incredible Hulk #324 Oct 1986

The last time the grey Hulk appeared was

Incredible Hulk #1 May 1962

To me this was so cool because for nearly 25 years whenever they re-told the Hulk's origin he was depicted as green instead of grey.

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After Rick's brief stint as Captain America's Bucky, he got bonded to Captain Mar-Vell.

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Marvel Team-Up #16 Dec 1973
"Beware the Basilisk My Son!" First appearance of the Basilisk.
Captain Marvel has sent his partner Rick Jones to New York City

after he detected a Kree energy source of the long-lost Alpha Stone, a powerful emerald crystal.
At that very moment at a museum, a thief named Basil Elks eyes the mysterious stone.
Breaking the display case, he removes the coveted object.
He thinks about how this will prove to the other convicts in prison that Basil Elks,
who they jokingly referred to as Basilisk, was a criminal in his own right.
His thoughts are interrupted when he is caught red-handed by a security guard.
Before Basil can draw his gun, the officer fires and through a twist of fate strikes the Alpha Stone.
The gem is shattered by the bullet, releasing energies that transform Basil into a green-skinned form.
The frightened officer tries to flee, but when Elks tells him to freeze,
he is surprised when his eyes fire energy that freezes the guard in his tracks.
Realizing what he has done, Basil looks in the mirror and is amazed by his transformation.
Realizing that he can transmute matter with his eye beams, Basil reshapes a suit of armor into a costume
and decides to take on the moniker that has taunted him during his criminal career -- Basilisk.

Not far away, Peter Parker is heading down the streets in the hopes of catching the late show at the local movie theater.
As he passes the museum he witnesses one of the walls blowing out and Basilisk departing the scene.
Realizing that this could be trouble, Peter slips into some bushes so he can change into Spider-Man and pursue this new menace.
When the web-slinger confronts this new villain, he discovers that his foe's eye blasts are powerful.
Furious at this surprise attack, Basilisk decides that he will begin his new criminal career by destroying Spider-Man.
While the hero is stunned, Rick Jones happens on the scene.
Seeing that Spider-Man is at the mercy of his foe, Jones claps his armbands allowing Captain Marvel to trade places with him.

Although Captain Marvel has the element of surprise, Basilisk uses his powers to melt the concrete under the heroes feet.
It takes his power of levitation to break free and resume the fight.
Basilisk realizes that he can use his powers to rocket himself into the air and tries to escape.
Before Mar-Vell can stop him, the villain uses his powers to entrap the hero in ice.
The Captain manages to break free before he can fall to the ground, but by this point, Basilisk has escaped.

Spider-Man thanks Captain Marvel for the assist and learns that the Alpha Stone is one of two ancient Kree weapons.
Some time ago, the Alpha and Omega Stones were taken into space to be destroyed.
However, one Kree soldier sought their power for himself. But, instead of gaining ultimate power,
the two stones caused the ship to explode and they were lost in space, until now when the Alpha Stone turned up on Earth.
Fearing that Basilisk might find the Omega Stone and increase his power, the two heroes agree to team-up and hunt down their foe.
The pair track Basilisk down to a nearby construction site where he is attempting to dig up the Omega Stone.
While Spider-Man runs interference, Captain Marvel recovers the Omega Stone.
However, the stone reacts with Mar-Vell, growing in size. It encases the Kree warrior and suddenly teleports away.

Distracted by the sudden disappearance, Spider-Man is unable to stop Basilisk from getting away.
Spider-Man realizes that Mar-Vell's disappearance wasn't planned and wonders what he can do to help.

Script by Len Wein. Pencils by Gil Kane. Inks by Jim Mooney and Dave Hunt.