BOB the ALIENBOB the ALIEN
Real Name: Presumably Bob
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial
(Venusian);
active in pre-modern
era (see comments)
Occupation: Unrevealed
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Unidentified friend
Enemies: He annoyed a
few unidentified people but did not have any outright confirmed enemies
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed presumed city in the
United States of America
First Appearance: Epic Lite#1 (September, 1991)
Powers/Abilities: Bob did not demonstrate any superhuman abilities.
He is a semi-humanoid biped with four fingers and a thumb on each hand, a somewhat inhuman face with a prominent bald head.
There were some things he didn't understand about human society, such as mannequins, statues, art, drug use, etc.
However, he seemed to have a more solid knowledge of movies, especially Tarzan, who yell he could do an impression of.
He understood the English language, but
spoken in somewhat broken English.
History:
(Epic Lite#1/4) - Bob's friend took him
somewhere, whee he talked to a bald female mannequin, telling her that
she had a haircut like his. His friend explained that she was a
mannequin, but Bob countered that that didn't mean she had to be rude.
Bob next saw some impressionistic art, which others thought was genius and powerful, but Bob thought the artist must not have been feeling too well. Seeing a statue, he knocked on its head to confirm it was not a living being.
Seeking some more lively people, he walked into a room where people were smoking marijuana. Seeing all of the smoke, he shouted, "Fire!" and everybody fled. When the firemen arrived, Bob showed them a bong and noted that only this "vase" had been on fire.
Seeing another person at the party, he
knocked on his head and then apologized when he reacted.
He next organized a game of charades, although he did not know that was the name of the game and thought the woman saying it was telling him her name. Bob went first and did a Tarzan yell, which the same woman quickly recognized and identified.
Bob next encountered a group of people
doing lines of cocaine and thought they were smelling Ajax.
Bob asked a pair of girls if they wanted to make an alien from Venus "real happy and have dance." When the cocaine guys showed up and asked for an introduction, Bob introduced them by the hostile names they had used for each other, "Asswipe and Scrotum Cheek."
Bob escorted the women outside and
asked them if they wanted to get some ice cream. The one woman asked, "Haagen Daas," but Bob told her, "No, Bob."
Comments: Created
by Richard Rice as part of the creator-owned Epic Comics line.
Bob is apparently an alien from
Venus who arrived on Earth under unrevealed circumstances.
Epic Lite was a series of short stories of comedic intent...not my cup of tea, but that's ok.
As a creator owned character
from Epic, it is unlikely that this story was intended to be part of
Reality-616, but there's also nothing to exclude it...he encountered a
relatively small number of people in a localized area, and the people
mostly just thought he was weird, rather than an alien. There's no
reason it could not have taken place in 1991, which due to Marvel's
sliding timescale in is over 20 years and counting before the Fantastic
Four's space flight.
This profile was completed 05/02/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Bob the Alien should be distinguished from:
First posted: 09/11/2026
Last updated: 05/02/2025
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