QUOR

Real Name: Quor (presumably)

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (race unrevealed)

Occupation: Plunderer

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Reptile-Men

Enemies: Golden People, Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Savage Land, Antarctica;
   formerly a spaceship in an unspecified region of space;
   planet of origin unrevealed

First Appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1 (March, 1969)

Powers/Abilities: Quor possessed advanced technology, including airships and energy blasters. As his very life apparently depended on the power of the Anti-Metal (Antarctic Vibranium), it may be that he was a robot of some sort.

He wore a suit of armor that apparently covered his entire body and may have afforded him some resistance to injury, but demonstrated no special fighting skills.

Distinguishing features: Quor (or at least his armor) had three fingers and a thumb on each hand, and three toes on each foot.

Height: Unrevealed (6' 6"; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed

History:
(Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1 (fb) - BTS) - Quor's past and planet of origin are unrevealed, but "months ago," his spaceship crashed in Antarctica's Savage Land. Using his advanced technology and knowledge, he quickly convinced a primitive tribe of Reptile-Men (who accepted him as their god) that he was to lead them.

   Quor needed the Anti-Metal (Antarctic Vibranium) to power his spacecraft and sustain himself, so he equipped the Reptile-Men with weaponry and airships; then he sent them to raid and ransack the villages of other tribes (such as the Golden People) to obtain their stores of the needed mineral.

(Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1) - A group of Reptile-Men encountered, ambushed, and overpowered Ka-Zar with their weapons while they were in camouflage mode. The unconscious Ka-Zar was recovered by the Golden People, who took him to Sagyr, their chieftain; Sagyr welcomed Ka-Zar as an old friend, and told him how his people had been driven away from their village by the Reptile-Men.

   Meanwhile, Quor commanded his Reptile-Men on another mission to steal more of the Anti-Metal -- he disliked associating with the primitives, and cursed the space-born fates for causing his spacecraft to crash.

   Shortly afterward, Ka-Zar made his way to Quor's lair, where he fought his way past the Reptile-Men guards, then faced Quor himself.

   Quor mocked Ka-Zar as being "puny," but the jungle lord responded with a flying kick, which caused Quor to drop the Anti-Metal capsule (apparently the source of his power) that he was holding, and he faded quickly. Ka-Zar followed with a punch to Quor's gut, which scattered more capsules attached to his belt.; a second punch sent Quor staggering backward, and he crashed into a wall.

   Quor dropped to the floor after receiving a total of three punches (well, two punches and a kick), and delivering none to defend himself -- his ultimate fate was unrevealed, but possibly he revived and fled from Earth.

   Afterward, Ka-Zar drove off the Reptile Men, telling them that their leader was gone and his power was destroyed.

Comments: Arnold Drake, Steve Parkhouse, George Tuska, and Sid Greene.

This was a real WTF story. To the best of my knowledge, none of the characters introduced in this story have shown their faces in another Marvel Comic.

Since they both operated in the Savage Land, and since their names sound the same, could Quor have perhaps been the sorcerer Khor in a suit of armor (to hide the injuries he sustained when the Vision [Aarkus] hurled him into the volcanic pit)? Maybe this whole Ka-Zar story was just an illusion created by Khor?--John Kaminski

A slightly different looking Quor appeared on this issue's cover (by Barry Smith and Herb Trimpe); and other than the cover, Quor only appeared in a total of seven story-panels (...including one where only his hand and arm were visible).

Quor's spaceship was never seen -- possibly it and Quor are still somewhere in the Savage Land... anybody want to see a rematch?
--Ron Fredricks

Profile by Snood. Expansion by Ron Fredricks.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Quor has no known connection to:








Quor's airships

Quor supplied at least three of these aircraft to his Reptile-Men lackeys, so they could raid the villages of the Savage Land and bring back plundered Anti-Metal (Antarctic Vibranium).

The small and swift airships were apparently powered by Anti-Metal, but their top speed was unrevealed; presumably, these airships were stored in Quar's spaceship when not in use.

(Comment: The airships only appeared in this one panel -- possibly their power source faded after Ka-Zar defeated Quor.)

--Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1

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Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1, p15, pan1 (main image - Quor)
Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1, p18, pan5 (headshot - Quor gets punched into wall by Ka-Zar)
Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1, p18, pan4 (Quor gets punched by Ka-Zar)
Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1, cover (Quor, with a slightly different appearance)
Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1, p15, pan3 (Reptile-Men in Quor's airships)

Appearances:
Marvel Super-Heroes II#19/1 (March, 1969) - Arnold Drake & Steve Parkhouse (writers), George Tuska (pencils), Sid Green (inks), Sam Rosen (letters), Stan Lee (editor), Roy Thomas (associate editor)

First posted: 12/27/2003
Last updated: 03/27/2026

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