TIM BOO BA
Real Name: Tim Boo Ba
Identity/Class: Extradimensional being (Devoktites)
Occupation: Despot
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: His horde of followers,
including Grogoom
Enemies: Dr. Nemesis; Fin Fang Four (Elektro, Fin Fang Foom, Googam, Gorgilla); Unnamed human-like race
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Goom
Base of Operations: The planet Devoktos in the Microverse
First Appearance: Amazing Adult Fantasy#9 (February, 1962)
Powers/Abilities: Tim Boo Ba possessed green scaly skin and stood nearly twice as tall as a normal humanoid on his world.
History: (Amazing Adult Fantasy#9) - Tim Boo Ba conquered another world, directing his armies to pummel his opponents into submission, until they finally surrendered to him under a white flag. However, Tim Boo Ba crushed their flag with his boot as a sign of contempt. Tim Boo Ba went on to force the people of the world to pay him homage, and sent those who opposed him into prisons where they were never seen again. He soon set up new laws for the people to obey, demanding that no other speak as he did. He had statues of himself erected over the world, but left his subjects in poverty.
However, for all his power, there proved to be a force greater than Tim Boo Ba -- his world was suddenly engulfed in a flood which wiped him out, along with his kingdom. The water which destroyed his world came from a glass of water on Earth, dripping onto Tim Boo Ba's world -- only a tiny model from the perspective of a human.
(Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses
Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters#1 (fb)-BTS) - Dr. Nemesis built a
machine that allowed him to view Tim Boo Ba's world, and years later,
would be shrunk into Tim Boo Ba's world when his Pym Particles went out
of control. Tim Boo Ba and his minions tortured Nemesis before he
managed to escape back into his home dimension. Nemesis would later try
to warn his old enemies and Elsa Bloodstone of the danger posed by this
creature.
(Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four#1) - Tim Boo Ba
telepathically reached Googam, pretending to be the alien's father Goom.
He ordered Googam to break into the laboratory of Reed Richards and use
a device to release him from his sub-atomic prison. When Googam
succeeded, he was horrified to learn that it was not his father, but
Tim Boo Ba and his minions. While Tim Boo Ba used the power of
the machine to continue growing, his hordes were fended off by Fin Fang
Foom, Gorgilla and Elektro, all creatures that, like Googam, had been
given jobs within the Baxter Building. Googam destroyed the
machine, ceasing Tim Boo Ba's growth rate, and when the giant creature
began to rampage through the coast, the four went after him. Foom
had Gorgilla distract Tim Boo Ba, while Elektro plunged a Fantasti-Car
into the invader's mouth. Foom used his fiery breath to cause an
explosion within Tim Boo Ba, knocking him out.
Comments: Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Since Tim Boo Ba's defeated subjects all resembled humans, he was likely from a different world, and had conquered the human-like people's planet.
Lee and Ditko did a few other stories like this one, including "Will This Be the End of the World" from Journey Into Mystery I#72 (in which a world was on a baseball glove), "When the Earth Vanished" from Tales of Suspense I#13 (world is a ping pong ball; see the Goloks), and Monsteroso from Tales to Astonish I#18 (world is on a slide).
It should be noted that, in general, microworlds are not really microscopic in size, but actually just separate dimensions accessed via the energies generated by shrinking below a certain point.
In the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#7, in the profile of the Microverse, the name of Tim Boo Ba's homeworld was revealed to be Devoktos, and his race was known as the "Devoktites" (an anagram of "Steve Ditko").
--John Kaminski
Not really so much an addition into Tim Boo Ba's history as a footnote for readers. There is a retelling of the story with new artwork (instead of a straight up reprint of the original story) by Gene Colon as a 'Tales of the Watcher' backup feature in Silver Surfer I#4. From the sounds of things the plot is exactly the same, but since it does use entirely new artwork done by Colon, people might interest enough to mention it.
--DB Sommer
by Prime Eternal
CLARIFICATIONS:
Tim Boo Ba should not be confused with:
Images taken from:
Amazing Adult Fantasy#9, page 2, panel 7
Amazing Adult Fantasy#9, page 2, panel 9
Last updated: 12/07/05
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