BLACK JAIMIE MacAWBER
Real Name: Jaimie MacAwber
Identity/Class: Human (Scottish) technology user
Occupation: Scottish Lord, "protector" of the Loch Fear Monster
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: His underlings (unidentified)
Enemies: Hulk (Bruce Banner), Angus MacTavish
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Castle MacAwber, Loch Fear, Scotland
First Appearance: Incredible Hulk II#192 (October, 1975)
Powers/Abilities: MacAwber had no superhuman physical abilities, but he was very skillful at developing advanced technology, including a hydraulic lift in his castle's entryway, a mesmerizing device, and gas powerful enough to render the Loch Fear Monster unconscious.
He also employed at least five henchmen, who all carried some form of firearms.
Height: Unrevealed (6'; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
History:
(Incredible Hulk II#192 (fb) - BTS) - The past of MacAwber
is largely unrevealed, but he lived on the banks of Loch Fear in his
ancestral castle, which he had retro-fitted with advanced technology.
The nearby village was impoverished, and its sole source of income came from the tourists who traveled there in hopes of seeing the legendary Loch Fear Monster; but local fisherman Angus MacTavish wanted to kill the beast, and as Lord (or "Laird" as he was often referred to) of Loch Fear, MacAwber was determined to stop him from destroying the village's livelihood.
(Incredible Hulk II#192) - On "the Night of the Serpent's Moon," when the beast of Loch Fear was known to surface from the waters, MacAwber sent his henchmen to the home of MacTavish, where they forcibly escorted MacTavish and Bruce Banner (whose green-skinned alter-ego had accidentally been fished out of the Loch by MacTavish, see comments) back to Castle MacAwber at gunpoint.
Once they arrived at the fortress, Banner and MacTavish were raised by a large hydraulic lift, and even Banner was impressed by MacAwber's flair for technology. MacAwber offered his hand in friendship to MacTavish, but to no avail.
Banner and MacTavish were taken into a tower room, where they were chained to a wall, and Banner expressed his confusion at the whole situation; MacAwber explained to him that the financial welfare of the village depended on the survival of the Loch Fear Monster, and he wanted to protect the creature from MacTavish, then he activated a spinning multicolored wheel mounted on the wall. As MacAwber and his henchmen left the room, the device had a strange paralyzing effect on the two prisoners; but the strain of the paralysis eventually proved too much for Banner--he transformed into the Hulk, who easily broke himself and MacTavish free, then overcame MacAwber's men, and leapt away from the castle. MacAwber arrived and organized his men to search for the escaped prisoners, but he feared it was too late because MacTavish was on his way to slay the monster.
The Hulk returned to MacTavish's boat, where he found the fisherman carrying an explosive harpoon and preparing to do battle with the Loch Fear Monster. Despite Angus' warnings, the Hulk volunteered to help Angus slay the beast (Have ye ever been to sea, Hulky? -Prime ED-ternal).
Shortly after Angus and the Hulk cast off and sailed the Loch, the monster surfaced and ripped through the boat, sending Hulk and MacTavish into the water. The Hulk attacked the monster, while MacTavish searched through the wreckage for the harpoon; after finding it, MacTavish swam towards the monster, climbed upon its back, and speared it with the harpoon.
But just then, MacAwber--determined not to let MacTavish destroy the world's greatest tourist attraction--arrived in a speedboat, carrying large gas canisters upon his back.
MacAwber pleaded for MacTavish to pull the harpoon out of the monster, and told him the chemicals in his gas tanks would render the "beastie" harmless without killing it; but MacTavish refused, whereupon MacAwber jumped from his boat and upon the monster's back as well, then he punched Angus into the water.
As MacAwber tried to remove the harpoon, the Hulk appeared and pulled his hands from the harpoon's shaft. Suddenly the harpoon exploded, and the blast threw the Hulk away from the monster's back and triggered his transformation to Bruce Banner.
Shortly afterward, when Banner and Angus washed up on shore, they were shocked to see what had become of Black Jaimie and the Loch Fear Monster--somehow, a transmutation of the chemicals in MacAwber's gas tanks and the harpoon's explosion, warped by the gamma ray discharge of the Hulk's change to Banner, had all reacted in such a way that it turned both MacAwber and the Monster into stone, creating a new tourist attraction for Loch Fear.
Comments: Created by Len Wein and Herb Trimpe.
Previously, the Hulk had been on the world of the Toad Men--the Shaper of Worlds teleported him back to Earth, and he happened to appear in the middle of Loch Fear, where he was subsequently caught in MacTavish's fishing nets.--Ron Fredricks
Len Wein was one of the most masterful scribes to ever write the Incredible Hulk (or to write for comic books, period) and the story of Black Jaimie MacAwber and the Loch Fear Monster serves as proof that even the masters of comicdom make mistakes every now and then. I don't want to say this is one of the worst Hulk stories ever written, because it's worth reading just to see how silly it is. However, it is certainly one of the most ridiculous Hulk stories ever written. At least the Hulk didn't get beaten by a snake... -Prime Eternal, ed.
For sacrificing himself to create a Scottish tourist attraction, I feel Black Jaimie deserves some recognition. Not just anyone would allow himself to get stoned. -Prime Eternal, ed.
Profile by Mick Martin, the Anti-Grimm. Expansion by Ron Fredricks.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Black Jaimie MacAwber should not be confused with:
Castle MacAwber should not be confused with:
Angus MacTavish shout not be confused with:
The Loch Fear Monster should not be confused with:
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Located on the shore of Loch Fear, this Scottish fortress was the ancestral home of Black Jaimie MacAwber. Although it was a centuries-old medieval castle, MacAwber had it retro-fitted with advanced electronic technology, including a hydraulic lift at the main entrance, and a mesmerizing device that could render prisoners immobile. --Incredible Hulk II#192 |
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A resident of Scotland, he was a simple fisherman who lived in a modest home with his wife, Sarah. For nearly forty years, he made a meager living by fishing the waters of Loch Fear, and selling his meager catch of whitefish, herring, and shellfish. But for generations, Angus' family had been plagued by the Loch Fear Monster (presumably because it was eating so much of the fish in the Loch), so he made an explosive harpoon to put an end to the beast; however, Black Jaimie MacAwber opposed Angus' plan, because the village's sole source of income was from the tourists who came to the area in the hopes of seeing the Monster. Late one day, Angus was shocked when he found the Hulk caught in his fishing nets (see comments), and he realized the green goliath would be a great ally in slaying the Monster; Angus invited the Hulk to his home for dinner--much to Sarah's surprise--and invited him to stay the night. But later that night--after the sleeping Hulk had changed to Bruce Banner--both MacTavish and Banner were abducted by MacAwber's henchmen and imprisoned in Castle MacAwber. |
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When Banner once again became the Hulk, he and Angus escaped; they went to Angus' fishing boat and sailed the Loch, ready to confront the Monster. The Monster surfaced, and although it destroyed his boat, Angus managed to spear it with the harpoon; shortly afterward, the explosion of Angus' harpoon--combined with MacAwber's chemical gas tanks and the gamma ray discharge of the Hulk changing back to Bruce Banner--somehow transformed the Monster and MacAwber into stone statues. --Incredible Hulk II#192 |
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Somewhat resembling a plesiosaur, it dwelt within the waters of Scotland's Loch Fear, where it was known to surface on "the Night of the Serpent's Moon". It was apparently long-lived, because it had plagued the MacTavish clan for generations (presumably because it was eating so much of the fish in the Loch), so fisherman Angus MacTavish--with assistance from the Hulk--sought to kill it with an explosive harpoon. The monster provided the nearby impoverished village with a source of income, from all the tourists who flocked to the area hoping to catch a glimpse it. But because the village's livelihood was dependent upon it, Black Jaimie MacAwber was determined to prevent MacTavish from harming the monster, so he developed a gas to render it unconscious. |
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When the monster surfaced and destroyed MacTavish's boat, he speared it with the harpoon; but a combination of the harpoon's explosion and the chemicals in MacAwber's gas tanks, along with the gamma ray discharge from the Hulk changing back to Bruce Banner, somehow caused the Monster and MacAwber to be transformed into stone statues. (Comment: Possibly this creature was a Deviant mutate.) --Incredible Hulk II#192 |
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Incredible Hulk II#192, p6, pan5 (main image - Black Jaimie MacAwber)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p17, pan3 (headshot - Black Jaimie MacAwber)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p18, pan2 (on the back of Loch Fear Monster, MacAwber struggles with Hulk)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p18, pan6 (MacAwber, transformed to stone)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p6, pan2 (Castle MacAwber)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p7, pan1 (hydraulic lift raises Banner and MacTavish to MacAwber)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p9, pan4 (mesmerizing device; Angus MacTavish [foreground])
Incredible Hulk II#192, p14, pan3 (Angus MacTavish)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p5, pan6 (Angus MacTavish with Sarah; Bruce Banner [background])
Incredible Hulk II#192, p12, pan5 (Angus MacTavish, holding explosive harpoon)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p14, pan4 (Loch Fear Monster destroys Angus MacTavish's boat)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p17, pan1 (Loch Fear Monster, with Hulk and Angus MacTavish)
Incredible Hulk II#192, p18, pan6 (Loch Fear Monster and Black Jaimie MacAwber, both transformed to stone)
Appearances:
Incredible Hulk II#192 (October, 1975) - Len Wein (writer/editor), Herb Trimpe (pencils), Joe Staton (inks), Glynis Oliver Wein (colors), Ray Holloway (letters)
First posted: 04/08/2002
Last updated: 06/02/2024
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