Real
Name: Calum McGill SILVER DEATH
Real
Name: Calum McGill
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Living weapon
Group Membership: Warpies
Affiliations: Shoulders McGill (father and handler)
Enemies: Captain Britain, Meggan, Dai Thomas
Known Relatives: Shoulders McGill (father)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Glasgow
First Appearance: Captain Britain II#14 (February 1986)
Powers/Abilities: Able to fly at incredible speed, fast enough to slice and shred bullets out of the air. Body has hundreds of sharp tendrils ending in serrated points sharp enough to slice through cattle carasses without slowing his flight, or penetrate Captain Britain's forcefield.
History: Silver Death is believed to have been one of the Warpies, a collection of unrelated English children who were mutated by exposure to the energies of the Core Continuum.
[Captain Britain II#14, bts - 27 Glaswegian gangsters and "known villains" are murdered in the run up to 24th December by Shoulders McGill and his Warpie son "Silver Death", at the behest of the McCloud Brothers. Dai Thomas brings Captain Britain and Meggan in on the case on Christmas Eve at 11.30p.m.]
(Captain Britain II#14) The McCloud Brothers arrange for Shoulders to kill Captain Britain and Meggan, who are posing as mobsters moving into the Glasgow gang scene, and have been busting up the premises of every local outfit hoping to attract the attention of the killer. At 11.55p.m. on New Year's Eve McGill confronts Dai Thomas in the warehouse the heroes are waiting in. He releases Silver Death from the briefcase he carries him in, and Dai is only saved by the swift intervention of Captain Britain. After a brief running battle Meggan and the Captain end the threat of the bizarre warpie when the latter hero finally gets a clear shot and strikes Silver Death hard enough to shatter him.
Comments: Created by Alan Davis.
From McGill's confession after Silver Death's demise, Captain Britain presumed that the creature was a particularly bizarre warpie. It could of course have been an old fashioned mutant instead.
Silver Death's first name was revealed in Marvel Atlas#1.
CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to any other "silver" or
"death" characters
Appearances:
Captain Britain II#14 (February, 1986) - Alan Davis (writer/artist), Ian Rimmer (editor)
Last updated: 08/13/02
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