Real Name: UnrevealedPRO-RATA
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human, magic-user
Occupation: Accountant, Would-Be Chief Accountant to the Universe
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Associate of the Astral Auditor; Creator of the Eggsmen; Former master of a weredog;
Enemies: Howard the Duck, Hemlock Shoals, Prei-Ying Mantis, Beverly Switzler
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: The Mad Financial Wizard; The Cosmic Accountant
Base of Operations: Cleveland, Ohio
Appearances: Howard the Duck I#1 (January, 1975)
Powers: Pro-Rata has a variety of mystical abilities, which all have some connection to accounting. His primary goal was to achieve sufficient power at the moment the stellar balance sheet comes into alignment, when the astral audit would be taken, so that he alone would collect the cosmic dividend. He can fire blasts of force, open portals to other dimensions, animate inanimate objects, open dimensional portals, and manipulate the perceptions of others.
Pro-Rata's greatest source of power was the Cosmic Calculator. However, he could only access a small portion of its power on his own. To access its full power, he would require the Jeweled Key to the Calculator, the greatest fiscal force in the universe. He could borrow power from other sources, but if he could not pay it back, the magic would be repossessed and he would be thrown into debtor's prison. He used a flying cash register to travel.
His Eggsmen (Coffee, Eyeclops (eggs), OJ (orange
juice), Sizzler (bacon), and Toast), a mystically animated
economical breakfast, had limited abilities including flying,
projection of force blasts, as well as amplification of their
natural heat or acidity.
Height: 6'2" History: Pro-Rata was descended from Egyptian
sorcerers, Slavic witches, and Druids. He believed that all of
these groups failed because the failed to see world domination in
terms of accounting. He feels that the universe is the ultimate
flow chart, and whoever can juggle the books can rule infinity. (Howard the Duck II#4/2 (fb) ) - Pro-Rata sought to obtain the Cosmic Key, aka the
Jeweled Key to Pro-Rata's Cosmic Calculator to access its full
power. To this end, he traveled to the extra-dimensional realm of
Maltesia, where they Key was held by their chief accountant,
Prei-Ying Mantis. Pro-Rata slew Prei-Ying by breaking his neck
with a slide rule, and prepared to abscond with the Key. However,
he was then confronted by Hemlock Shoals, a mystic and detective
of Maltesia, who had been summoned by Prei-Ying, who suspected he
might be attacked. Shoals knocked the Key from Pro-Rata's grasp
as he opened an interdimensional portal, and the Key fell through
a portal that accessed a myriad of realms. Pro-Rata fled and
continued his search for the Key. (Howard the Duck I#1) - Pro-Rata had made a base out of a tower of credit cards
on an island on Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. For unknown
reasons he kidnapped Beverly Switzler and imprisoned her in his
tower. He planned to send his weredog (a man that can turn into a
dog) to the Citadel of Sai-Fuur, where the Jeweled Key to his Cosmic Calculator had ended up. He
planned this on the night when the stellar balance sheet came
into alignment, so that he could reap the cosmic dividend when
the astral audit was taken. However, that same night, Howard the
Duck found and scaled the marathon, and killed the weredog after
it attacked him when he attempted to rescue Beverly Switzler. However, Pro-Rata had indeed survived and set about investing
his remaining mystical might to gain vengeance. After Howard and
Beverly returned from a long trip, Pro-Rata ,having found a new
mystical force bank in an abandoned tower in the Union Terminal,
set about making his life more troublesome. He placed an
advertisement in a newspaper about duck hunting season, and he
used his flying cash register to crash Howard's taxi into
another, causing him to get into a fight. Next he created a false
movie studio in Union Terminal to lure Howard and Beverly into a
trap, from which he could learn the location of the Jeweled Key. When he learned that Howard
had hocked it, Pro-Rata sent his Eggsmen to attack them. Howard
and Beverly defeated the Eggsmen and then unseated Pro-Rata from
his cash register. Pro-Rata's power, unable to be repaid without
the Jeweled Key, was then repossessed by the Astral Auditor.
Pro-Rata fell into the collapsing vortex as the false realm of
the movie studio collapsed in on itself. Howard and Beverly
narrowly escaped the destruction of the vortex. Comments: Created by Steve Gerber and Frank Brunner. Pro-Rata is responsible for bringing together that swinging
couple, Beverly Switzler and Howard the Duck. Pro-Rata has an entry in Mystic Arcana: The Book of Marvel Magic.
Appearances: Last updated: 08/01/02. Any Additions/Corrections? please
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Weight: 173 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White
In order to obtain the key before midnight,
Pro-Rata sent Howard and Beverly to the Citadel. They
successfully obtained it, but when Pro-Rata summoned the back to
his tower, he inadvertently hit the wrong decimal on his
calculator, and also brought back the immense and powerful
Bahnd-Bird which was attacking them outside the Citadel. Figuring
the Key would make Pro-Rata too powerful, Howard refused to give
it to him. Pro-Rata prepared to slay Howard, as well as
Spider-Man, who had seen the shattering of the tower by the
Bahnd-Bird. Howard ambushed Pro-Rata, tackling him from behind
off the top of the tower. Howard was rescued by Spider-Man, but
Pro-Rata fell to his seeming death.
Howard the Duck I#1 (January, 1975) - Steve Gerber (writer), Frank Brunner (pencils), Steve Leialoha (inks), Marv Wolfman (editor)
Howard the Duck II#1 (October, 1979) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Gene Colan (pencils), Dave Simons & Bob McLeod (inks), Rick Marshall (editor)
Howard the Duck II#2 (December, 1979) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Gene Colan (pencils), Dave Simons (inks), Rick Marshall (editor)
Howard the Duck II#4 (March, 1980) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Gene Colan (pencils), Dave Simons (inks), Lynn Graeme (editor)
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