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UNCLE SCRAM

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-8311/Larval Earth) anthrotoon bald eagle

Occupation: Terrorist

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: All foreigners in the USA, notably Spider-Ham, Mary Jane Water-Buffalo (all Earth-8311)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Hidden aerie lair in the USA (Earth-8311)

First Appearance: Marvel Tales II#201/2 (July, 1987)

Powers/Abilities: Old Uncle Scram could not fly or soar heights. He wore thick-lensed spectacles as he could not see far ahead and had little economic acumen. However, he had access to advanced (if somewhat bizarre) technology, including an Unlucky-Buck-A-Scope (which lethally altered the probabilities against anyone holding an item affected by the device), Electro-Magnetic Foreigner-Eject-O-Tron (an anti-gravity device that locked onto everyone in the USA and levitated them far up in the air) plus his own stylized "eagle-mobile." As a fierce American nationalist, he thematically wore the nation's flag colors and railed against anything he considered was not American.

Height: 3'10"
Weight: 75 lbs.
Eyes: Black
Hair: None (white feathers)

History:

(Marvel Tales II#201/2 (fb) - BTS) - Aging genius inventor but also racist US nationalist railed at the "foreigners" in the USA, ranging from people to clothing to furniture to food to music. He built an isolated aerie home atop a lone mountain overlooking fruit trees and grain fields. His eccentric home design featured an old cabin with a US Capitol-style dome, obelisk monument as a chimney and small Lady Liberty statue on the porch. Uncle Scram made genealogical calculations that showed that he alone was the only non-foreigner in the USA(!). With that bizarre mindset, he developed a plan to purge the USA of all "foreigners" and things he deemed "foreign."

(Marvel Tales II#201/2) - Uncle Scram screeched from his aerie home about all the "foreigners" in the USA except him and initiated his plan. His Unlucky-Buck-A-Scope used hex-inducing rays on a bunch of American bills that would lethally alter the probability of anyone touching them; his idea was that people would be too scared to touch money and so leave the USA for safer countries. He sent money notes to nine major American cities and news quickly spread of people dying after finding a seemingly random dollar bill. Uncle Scram reveled in the chaos on TV news reports.

(Marvel Tales II#202/2) - Uncle Scram's unlucky bucks plan made people paranoid about cash and crippled the economy, but people also wouldn't buy transport out of the country. Initially ecstatic about the chaos, Uncle Scram was aghast that his plan had backfired, so he went to his Electro-Magnetic Foreigner-Eject-O-Tron device.

(Marvel Tales II#203/2) - Uncle Scram triggered his Electro-Magnetic Foreigner-Eject-O-Tron, which he believed would send any foreign-blooded American into the stratosphere, but levitated all people in the USA (regardless of their origin), including Mary Jane Water-Buffalo. The fiend relished the solitude as the people floated away, unconcerned about their welfare. Uncle Scram drove off in his "eagle-mobile" to investigate New York City [later known as New Yolk City]. There, heroic Spider-Ham clung on using webbing and was alerted by his spider-sense. Suspicious, the hero clambered into the boot of the car while Uncle Scram was distracted. The aged villain soon chose to return home as he thought he'd left the oven on.

(Marvel Tales II#204/2) - Uncle Scram drove home quickly on empty roads. Once there, Spider-Ham jumped out and punched Uncle Scram back. Spider-Ham reversed the unlucky money using that machine's built-in de-hexification mode, but Uncle Scram had built no such safety for the anti-gravity device, so Spider-Ham penciled in a change in the machine's label to Unforeigner-Eject-O-Tron. This simple change altered the physics so that the people softly floated back to the ground but the cantankerous Uncle Scram was drawn upward. Far far up in the air, Uncle Scram reflected that at least there weren't any "foreigners" up there with him and reached into his hat for an American-style meal.

Comments: Created by Steve Mellor & Joe Albelo.

This is, of course, is a play on the USA mascots of Uncle Sam and the bald eagle.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Uncle Scram has no known connections to:

Electro-Magnetic Foreigner-Eject-O-Tron

The villainous Uncle Scram used his Electro-Magnetic Foreigner-Eject-O-Tron to levitate all those of "foreign" genealogy away from USA territory; however, it actually caused all people to float upward except Uncle Scram. The villain used this device to remove everybody from the USA after the failure of his Unlucky-Buck-A-Scope. The heroic Spider-Ham later confronted Uncle Scram in his aerie lair and reversed its effects by changing the machine's label to Unforeigner-Eject-O-Tron. This simple change altered the physics so that the people softly floated back to the ground but the nasty Uncle Scram was drawn upward.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--Marvel Tales II#202/2 (203/2-204/2

Unlucky-Buck-A-Scope

The fiendish Uncle Scram used his Unlucky-Buck-A-Scope to lethally alter the probabilities of anyone who touched dollar bills affected by the device's hex-inducing rays, such as cause a falling safe or runaway train to suddenly hit the person. Uncle Scram's plan was to make people scared of using American cash so they would all flee the USA and leave the country to him. The heroic Spider-Ham later confronted Uncle Scram in his aerie lair and reversed the unlucky money using the machine's built-in de-hexification mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--Marvel Tales II#201/2 (204/2

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Marvel Tales II#201/2, p3, pan6 (main image)
Marvel Tales II#201/2, p3, pan4 (headshot with book)
Marvel Tales II#203/2, p4, pan1 (in "eagle-mobile")
Marvel Tales II#202/2, p5, pan4 (Electro-Magnetic Foreigner-Eject-O-Tron)
Marvel Tales II#201/2, p4, pan1 (Unlucky-Buck-A-Scope)
Marvel Tales II#203/2, p2, pan3 (madly pulling levers)

Appearances:
Marvel Tales II#201/2 (July, 1987) - Steve Mellor (writer), Joe Albelo (art), Jim Salicrup (editor)
Marvel Tales II#202/2 (August, 1987) - Steve Mellor (writer), Joe Albelo (art), Jim Salicrup (editor)
Marvel Tales II#203/2 (September, 1987) - Steve Mellor (writer), Joe Albelo (art), Jim Salicrup (editor)
Marvel Tales II#204/2 (October, 1987) - Steve Mellor (writer), Joe Albelo (pencils), Pierre Fournier (inks), Jim Salicrup (editor)

First posted: 07/04/2025
Last updated: 07/04/2025

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