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CROAK

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-8311/Larval Earth) anthrotoon frog mutate

Occupation: Adventurer

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Badger, Spider-Ham (Earth-8311)

Enemies: Ham-Droid, Mad Stinker (all Earth-8311); Kang-6309, Mojo

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New Yolk City, USA (Earth-8311)

First Appearance: Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham I#16/2 (July, 1987)

Powers/Abilities: Croak has a near-insatiable hunger for junk snacks, which he seeks at night. These unhealthy foods deposit their chemicals and sugars into Croak's cloak of darkness, which is of unrevealed origin and substance. When a victim is enveloped in the cloak, they are disoriented on a sugar high for weeks. Croak speaks in overly verbose and dramatic monologues, and displays no fighting skills or other abilities beyond those of a regular human.

Height: 3'6"
Weight: 65 lbs.
Eyes: Black
Hair: None

History:

(Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham I#16/2 (fb) - BTS) - Croak relied on his partner Badger's luminescent power to help navigate the darkened night streets in search of junk food to sate his hunger, but Badger became tired of the same routine and longed for a movie date.

(Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham I#16/2) - One night, Croak continued his overly dramatic monologues and quest for night-time food binges, and was berated by Badger. But the villainous Mad Stinker sent his Ham-Droid robot to capture Badger and it easily distracted Croak with snack chips while it kidnapped Badger and took her to the Mad Stinker's lair. However, Croak arrived  to protect Badger and the fiend did not have enough snacks left to sway him. Croak enveloped the Mad Stinker in the folds of his cloak of darkness, severely disorienting the villain. Badger was thankful and the pair escaped into the night, only to have Croak return to the night-time routine of scouring the shops for unhealthy snacks and asking the exasperated Badger to pay for them.

(Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham I#17/2) - Croak was briefly kidnapped by the powerful cosmic being the Bee-Yonder to participate in the "Secret Furs", a commercial endeavor to test the moral and physical fiber of Earth's super-powered population to engage in violent confrontations.

(Spider-Ham I#3) - Thinking Larval Earth a mockery and wanting to obliterate it, the extradimensional Kang-6309 arrived and turned some of the super folk monochromatic, and they fought their still-colored counterparts (who included Croak and Badger).

(Spider-Ham I#5) - Having corrupted Kang-6309, the manipulative media villain Mojo stepped in and imprisoned every super-powered being from Earth-8311 in glass bell jars in the Mojoverse, intending to recast them into other animated roles. But Spider-Ham duped Mojo into letting Black Colt speak with his hypersonic whinny and all were released. The Bee-Yonder returned everyone home (except Mojo).

Comments: Created by Mike Mellor & Steve Mellor.

Croak and Badger are the Larval Earth versions of Earth-616's Cloak and Dagger. As such, I'm assuming Croak's powers are derived from mutation in a similar way to Cloak's.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Croak of Earth-8311 has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham I#16/2, p1, pan1 (main image)
   p3, pan6 (eating)
   p5, pan2 (using cloak of darkness)

Appearances:
Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham I#16/2 (July, 1987) - Mike Mellor (writer), Steve Mellor (art), Larry Hama (editor)
Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham I#17/2 (July, 1987) - Mike Mellor (writer), Steve Mellor (art), Larry Hama (editor)
Spider-Ham I#3 (April, 2020) - Zeb Wells (writer), Will Robson (artist), Devin Lewis (editor)
Spider-Ham I#5 (August, 2020) - Zeb Wells (writer), Will Robson (pencils & inks), Devin Lewis (editor)

First posted: 07/15/2025
Last updated: 07/15/2025

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

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