lasers are part of modern living but
this guy makes his living with modern
lasers surely you can’t be so petty to
put millions of lives at risk just for
revenge
watch me welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we will explore the comic book
origins of the living laser former Stark
Industries employee Applied Sciences
Division physical form comprised
entirely of active photons
hold it he’s made of what as with most
comic book characters they’re often
reimagining in different versions to a
character’s past we have chosen to
primarily follow the storyline which
unfolded in 1966 is Avengers number 34
and 35 which was expanded upon in 1981
Iron Man number 153 and 1986 is Iron Man
number 211 hey what are you doing don’t
touch me
when the living laser started out he was
just your run-of-the-mill genius with
technology that enabled him to use very
powerful and destructive lasers through
the years however he went from
experimenting with lasers to using them
to turn himself into one neat little
trick when readers first met the living
laser he was using his lasers to rob a
bank not for profit but to demonstrate
his power and ability the Avengers were
called in after he escaped but he
returned to the scene of the crime in
his civilian identity of Arthur Parkes
there he’s find his ex-fiancee talking
to her old friend Janet Van Dyne who was
also the wasp is that all you’ve got
really Parkes was immediately smitten
with the wasp
within moments he decided that he would
commit himself to winning her love he
chose to do so by demonstrating his
immense power impressed I guess I’m the
living laser now Iron Man and how
unstoppable and what better way to do
that then by defeating her mighty
husband ant-man who was at the time
going by one of his many other
identities Goliath things did not go
well for the love stricken underdog
Goliath beat the living laser but when
the Avengers took him away the laser
managed to escape modifying his weaponry
he created a laser beam that was even
larger and more intense he then
proceeded to lay waste to the city when
the Avengers intervened he caught them
off guard
using special lasers he was able to slow
Captain America and Hawkeye while he is
scon did with the imprisoned wasp
fortunately Goliath showed up and
released calf and Hawkeye meanwhile the
wasp learned of the lasers nutty plan he
was pretending to help two villains
conquer a South American country so that
they could become its new dictators in
fact the laser was using them to become
a dictator of the country himself all to
impress the wasp the other Avengers
appeared and tried to scuttle his plans
but got captured by the lasers mob he
had devised a fiendish plot to kill them
all a plan the wasp believed he had
succeeded meanwhile however go I have
shrunk down and rigged one of the lasers
machines to backfire incapacitating the
villain the living lasers origins hasn’t
changed much throughout the years but
the villain himself had gone through a
number of metamorphosis in 1981 he
talked about how an alliance with the
villainous count nefaria had doubled his
powers
but only temporarily later he found that
the experiment that temporarily enhanced
his powers had altered his very genetic
structure he was becoming a living
battery constantly absorbing light and
energy whether he wanted to or not
although he could release a small amount
of this energy he needed a way to siphon
off more of it a team of East Germans
constructed a machine that took his
excess energy and used it to destroy
enemy targets iron man tried to stop him
discovering that the laser could also
now bend light and become in effect
invisible however when the lasers body
overloaded with energy Iron Man threw
him into space where he exploded
harmlessly two others but not to himself
that’s not possible
I’m giving laser you can’t touch me
touch
of course villains never stay dead
in 1986 laser returned to earth but now
he was a being of pure light with no
corporeal substance he was also a little
unhinged by this turn of affairs and
sought revenge against iron man don’t
worry old Shellhead won out again though
naturally the living laser has returned
several times since adopting another new
look along the way he no longer has an
obsession with Janet Van Dyne and
apparently just wants money and power
without the women I mean he wouldn’t be
much of a supervillain if he didn’t now
witty New York’s going to burn and I’m
gonna make you watch are you a fan of
the aptly named living laser you gotta
look and learn about how energy works
for more comic book origins be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com why because
you’re not useless
this guy makes his living with modern
lasers surely you can’t be so petty to
put millions of lives at risk just for
revenge
watch me welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we will explore the comic book
origins of the living laser former Stark
Industries employee Applied Sciences
Division physical form comprised
entirely of active photons
hold it he’s made of what as with most
comic book characters they’re often
reimagining in different versions to a
character’s past we have chosen to
primarily follow the storyline which
unfolded in 1966 is Avengers number 34
and 35 which was expanded upon in 1981
Iron Man number 153 and 1986 is Iron Man
number 211 hey what are you doing don’t
touch me
when the living laser started out he was
just your run-of-the-mill genius with
technology that enabled him to use very
powerful and destructive lasers through
the years however he went from
experimenting with lasers to using them
to turn himself into one neat little
trick when readers first met the living
laser he was using his lasers to rob a
bank not for profit but to demonstrate
his power and ability the Avengers were
called in after he escaped but he
returned to the scene of the crime in
his civilian identity of Arthur Parkes
there he’s find his ex-fiancee talking
to her old friend Janet Van Dyne who was
also the wasp is that all you’ve got
really Parkes was immediately smitten
with the wasp
within moments he decided that he would
commit himself to winning her love he
chose to do so by demonstrating his
immense power impressed I guess I’m the
living laser now Iron Man and how
unstoppable and what better way to do
that then by defeating her mighty
husband ant-man who was at the time
going by one of his many other
identities Goliath things did not go
well for the love stricken underdog
Goliath beat the living laser but when
the Avengers took him away the laser
managed to escape modifying his weaponry
he created a laser beam that was even
larger and more intense he then
proceeded to lay waste to the city when
the Avengers intervened he caught them
off guard
using special lasers he was able to slow
Captain America and Hawkeye while he is
scon did with the imprisoned wasp
fortunately Goliath showed up and
released calf and Hawkeye meanwhile the
wasp learned of the lasers nutty plan he
was pretending to help two villains
conquer a South American country so that
they could become its new dictators in
fact the laser was using them to become
a dictator of the country himself all to
impress the wasp the other Avengers
appeared and tried to scuttle his plans
but got captured by the lasers mob he
had devised a fiendish plot to kill them
all a plan the wasp believed he had
succeeded meanwhile however go I have
shrunk down and rigged one of the lasers
machines to backfire incapacitating the
villain the living lasers origins hasn’t
changed much throughout the years but
the villain himself had gone through a
number of metamorphosis in 1981 he
talked about how an alliance with the
villainous count nefaria had doubled his
powers
but only temporarily later he found that
the experiment that temporarily enhanced
his powers had altered his very genetic
structure he was becoming a living
battery constantly absorbing light and
energy whether he wanted to or not
although he could release a small amount
of this energy he needed a way to siphon
off more of it a team of East Germans
constructed a machine that took his
excess energy and used it to destroy
enemy targets iron man tried to stop him
discovering that the laser could also
now bend light and become in effect
invisible however when the lasers body
overloaded with energy Iron Man threw
him into space where he exploded
harmlessly two others but not to himself
that’s not possible
I’m giving laser you can’t touch me
touch
of course villains never stay dead
in 1986 laser returned to earth but now
he was a being of pure light with no
corporeal substance he was also a little
unhinged by this turn of affairs and
sought revenge against iron man don’t
worry old Shellhead won out again though
naturally the living laser has returned
several times since adopting another new
look along the way he no longer has an
obsession with Janet Van Dyne and
apparently just wants money and power
without the women I mean he wouldn’t be
much of a supervillain if he didn’t now
witty New York’s going to burn and I’m
gonna make you watch are you a fan of
the aptly named living laser you gotta
look and learn about how energy works
for more comic book origins be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com why because
you’re not useless
Please follow and like us: