SIR FERRET

Real Name: Presumably Ferret

Identity/Class: Terrestrial fauna (ferret) mutate (New Men)

Occupation: Knight, warrior

Group Membership: Knights of Wundagore (notably Sir Panther, Sir Puma and apparently at least four others unidentified)

Affiliations: Count Tagar, Mongoose, Thor Odinson;
    possibly Recorder 211

Enemies: "space stingrays" of the Black Galaxy;
    at least formerly Thor Odinson and Eric Masterson (at least some of the Knights on the mission plotted to slay Thor and Masterson)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Apparently perished in the Black Galaxy;
    formerly the High Evolutionary's citadel atop Mount Wundagore, Transia, Earth

First Appearance: (Unidentified) Thor I#406 (August, 1989)

Powers/Abilities: A ferret evolved and mutated into humanoid conformation, Sir Ferret presumably had enhanced human strength, speed, and reflexes.

    He presumably had enhanced olfactory and auditory senses, as well as enhanced nocturnal vision.

    He may or may not have had sharp claws on his fingers and/or toes, and he similarly may or may not have had enlarged canine teeth.

    As a Knight of Wundagore, he was trained and experienced in armed and unarmed combat, wore armor, wielded a sword and/or a staff, and likely a hand-blaster, at least.

    He flew atop an atomic steed, enabling him to fly through the air at a peak speed of Mach 1.3 and for a distance of 37,000 miles. His atomic steed was also accustomed for space flight (or whatever exists in the Black Galaxy).

    He wore a suit of armor, granting him an specified degree of enhanced durability as well as apparently atmospheric protection, enabling him to exist in the "space" of the Black Galaxy, although whether this had the frigid vacuum of space in other, conventional galaxies is unrevealed; presumably his armor would allow him to survive in the frigid vacuum of space as well as protecting him from other hostile atmospheric effects.

History:
(Thor I#406 (fb) - BTS) - At some point after returning to Earth, the High Evolutionary created another batch of New Men. Under unrevealed circumstances, Count Tagar returned to Earth and to the High Evolutionary's service.

    The New Men restored the Citadel of Science atop Mount Wundagore to its former glory.

(Thor I#402-405 - BTS) - Presumably under pre-existing orders from the High Evolutionary to obtain cell samples of Thor (which was presumably the start of what would become the High Evolutionary's plan to create the New Immortals via Thor's DNA), the New Man known as Mongoose kidnapped Eric Masterson and brought him to Mount Wundagore in order to lure Thor there.

(Thor I#406) - As Thor approached, ignoring Tagar's disagreement with his methods, Mongoose had a missile launched at Thor, and then after its detonation, he sent at least six Knights of Wundagore out to recover as much of Thor's body as possible.

     Having destroyed the missile and survived the explosion, Thor attacked the approaching Knights, shattering one of their atomic steeds with his hammer, Mjolnir. The Knights attempted to disarm him with Maneuver 138, in which at least four of them launched steel cables around Mjolnir and then tried to pull it free via the power of their atomic steeds. However, Thor resisted this force before hurling Mjolnir and pulling them all off of their steeds and then dropping them to ground in his vicinity when Mjolnir returned to him.

    As Sir Panther remained the only Knight still atop his steed, an unidentified Knight fired on Thor, and the blast, deflected from Mjolnir, shattered Sir Panther's steed. While Sir Panther fell toward the distant ground, Thor flew down and caught him, after which the Knights acknowledged that honor prevented them from further fighting him.

     At that point, the Knights were summoned back to base at once by Count Tagar, who explained that the attack was caused by the now-missing Mongoose, and he released Eric Masterson as a show of good faith. Tagar informed them that the Cosmi-Track device had located the High Evolutionary, and that he and Hercules were within the Black Galaxy.

    When Thor vowed to travel there to rescue Hercules, the Knights insisted that it would be their privilege to accompany him. Not trusting the Knights, Masterson also insisted on going, and Tagar provided him with a nuclear-powered environmental suit to protect him.

(Thor I#407 (fb) - BTS) - The Knights were charged with two responsibilities: To find their master, the High Evolutionary, and to return with enough Asgardian cell samples for future experiments. They had no intention of allowing Thor or Eric Masterson to survive the mission.

(Thor I#406) - Shortly thereafter, Tagar had the Stellar Telejump activated, sending the Knights (including Sir Ferret, Sir Puma, presumably Sir Panther, and two others unidentified), Thor and Eric Masterson to the Black Galaxy, where they observed a giant image of Hercules...

(Thor I#407) - ...and the High Evolutionary, and one of the Knights concluded that they had become woven into the fabric of the Black Galaxy. One of the Knights discussed the nature of the Black Galaxy as a cluster of stars around the edge of a great circle/dark void, and that void was the home of a living "universe." However, molten energy then erupted from a nearby planetoid, apparently destroying that Knight and atomic steed. As the group fled the planetoid, it exploded and apparently slew another of the Knights.

    An approaching ship was also destroyed by the planetary rubble, but its inhabitant, Recorder 211, ejected himself in time and flew to greet Thor as his old ally. The Recorder revealed that his Rigellian masters had sent a Null Bomb to destroy the Black Galaxy to stop the upheavals that were disrupting the neighboring regions. Unwilling to see the bio-verse destroyed, Thor resolved to stop the bomb. To this end, he summoned a sack that carried his enchanted armor and Belt of Strength and led the others in their quest.

    After the Recorder identified the giant swirling bands that snaked toward them as highly toxic, giant viruses against which the organic beings' bio-systems had no natural defenses, one of the bands snared Sir Puma, closing in on him before he could escape and pulling him off of his atomic steed; Thor urged the others to continue on and he would go to Puma's aid, but the Recorder advised him that that would be pointless as the swarm of bio-versal antibodies had already begun to digest him.

    Not seeing the "space stingray" approaching behind him, when Thor hurled Mjolnir at it, one of the Knights suspected that Thor had learned of the treachery he and his fellow knights had planned; however, when Mjolnir struck the creature, he realized that Thor had saved his life. After that knight exclaimed that the creatures had him completely surrounded, Thor instructed the others to gather together.

    However, Sir Ferret questioned whether he was mad, as there must be millions of the creatures, and he took off while urging the others to flee while they still could. Disregarding the mission, Sir Ferret insisted that survival was all that mattered. Someone else urged Sir Ferret to come back as he would never make it alone, but he refused to listen, and one of the creatures apparently stung him fatally soon thereafter.

(Thor I#407 - BTS) - The last of the Knights of Wundagore on the mission fell through a portal that aged him centuries, transforming his body into dust.

    Ultimately, Thor deactivated the Null-Bomb and rescued the High Evolutionary and Hercules.

Comments: Created by Ron Frenz and Tom DeFalco.

Certainly there six Knights shown on kneeling in respect to Thor after he rescues Sir Panther.

    When the Knights are shown without their helmets in the above image, there are five raised swords (including the partially seen one coming in from the right of the image) and one raised staff, but then the furry faced one on the left of the image (closest to Thor) has the view of his raised arm blocked by Thor's head. So that would seem to be seven raised weapons.
    The presumption based on the one Knight fully seen is that they are each holding up a weapon and holding their helmet in their other hand. That's not 100% certain, so it could be that one or more of the knights is holding up two weapons, but I think it is more likely that there were seven of them.

    In Thor I#406, the Knight were all silver-armored, lacking their familiar coloring, but most of them were back in their classic coloring in Thor I#407.
    Or, perhaps #406 was just poorly colored? A lot of the images looked to be more gray-scale than full color, although Thor was consistently his colorful self...
    Thor I#406-407 reminded me of the original Knights story in Thor I#134-135, primarily because the Knights in both sets of issues were poorly identified.
    Why not picture all of them unmasked, clearly show their armors, and identify them? Why not have fun giving them biped animal appearances?
    It really kind of looks like the artist was just copying the appearances of the Knights from Thor I#134-135.
    Unfortunately, it makes the story more confusing and makes the characters forgettable.

    So, which one from Thor I#406 is Sir Ferret?

• The only definite shot we have is his death scene in Thor#407, which shows him to be in white/silver armor, with a helmet that apparently exposes his lower face (this seems to be fairly unique, as most wore full face masks) and some sort of lengthy tassel coming from atop his helmet. He has bands on his armored sleeves above his elbows and below his shoulders, and his torso has an apparently circumferential band above his belt, extending centrally to some sort of marking on his chest, perhaps branching into paired vertical lines or even some complete shape.
• Based on all of that, of the Knights battling Thor, I think the one who fires at him and accidentally nails Sir Panther (as seen in this image on the right) best fits that image. No tassel is seen, but it could have been hanging straight down. It also looks like his helmet may be incomplete.
  
• Of the Knights kneeling before Thor (in the immediately above right image), I think the one that matches best is the one at the 10 o'clock position (to Thor' s left forward oblique) has similar shoulder, arm and chest patterns, notably the pattern going across his back from shoulder to shoulder. No tassels, though.The ones with the longer tassels have different shoulder ornamentation (fur or broad shoulder pads). I think either the one straight in front of Thor is Sir Panther, but it or the one farthest behind Thor fits the best. The one with the more feathery tassel could be him, but we barely see his armor.
  But, really, we can't be sure.
  
• When they are next clearly seen, on pg. 13, panel 2, they have removed their helmets. Of the two sets of armor that are visible, neither of them have armor markings similar to what we would see for Sir Ferret in Thor#407. The one on the far right whose face can be seen COULD be him, or he could be one of the four(?) who are neither shown clearly in face or armor.
  
• However, it is certainly possible that some or all of the knights changed armor to some degree to prepare for the alien environment of the Black Galaxy.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Sir Panther should be distinguished from:

• FERRET (Leslie Lenrow) - World War II era hero--Marvel Mystery Comics#4
• FERRET ( ) - agent of Dr. Faustus --Captain America I#107
• FERRET ( ) - Warpies, Seraphim - small, humble child with rodent-like features --Excalibur I#64
• FERRET - Heroic character, apparently got name and costume from Leo Zelinsky--Amazing Spider-Man II#61/502
• FERRET of Earth-1136 (Cal Denton) - Protectors--Man of War Comics#1; (Malibu) Comics Scene#23 - The Addams Family
• FERRET of Earth-95431 - Earth Force; survived initial Progeny assault, participated in subsequent battle--Phoenix Resurrection: Aftermath#1
• FERRET, AMOS - Sons of the Serpent victim--Defenders I#22
• WEEZHIL - New Men, loyal to Man-Beast on Counter-Earth--Thor I#134 (presumably BTS), Incredible Hulk II#176
• other "Sir" or "Ferret," "Weasel," or other mustelid (including badgers, otters, polecats, wolverines, etc.) characters, groups, items, events, races or places...

First posted: 04/29/2025
Last updated: 04/29/2025

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