quagmire-712-quas37-squat quagmire-712-otmume-frontQUAGMIRE

Real Name: Jerome Meyer

Identity/Class: Alternate Reality (Earth-712/"Earth-S") human (nature of powers unrevealed)

Legal Status: Criminal record on Earth-712; pardoned; legally deceased on Earth-712;
    criminal record on Earth-616

Occupation: Criminal, renegade;
    former adventurer, government agent, public champion

Group Membership: Formerly Squadron Supreme (Ape X/Xina, Blue Eagle/James Dore, Jr., Doctor Decibel/Anton Decibel, Doctor Spectrum/Joe Ledger, Foxfire/Olivia Underwood, Hyperion/"Mark Milton," Arcanna Jones, Lamprey/Donald McGuiggin, Power Princess/Zarda Shelton, Shape/Raleigh Lund, Tom Thumb/Thomas Thompson, Whizzer/Stanley Stewart);
    formerly Institute of Evil (Ape X/Xina, Doctor Decibel/Anton Decibel, Foxfire/Olivia Underwood, Lamprey/Donald McGuiggin, Shape/Raleigh Lund; formerly Mink/Julie Steel);
    as part of the Scarlet Centurion's team, he indirectly opposed the Grandmaster of Reality-616

Affiliations: Notably Foxfire (with whom he apparently had some sort of romantic relationship), Lamprey;
    Antibody of Earth-148611, Chief Examiner;
    former pawn of Henrique Gallante (then Darkling; later Asylum) of Earth-712; at this same time, he was loosely affiliated with other controlled beings, including Black Mamba (Tanya Sealy), Silhouette Chord, Cloak (Tyrone Johnson), Ecstasy (Renee Deladier), Shoud (Maximillian Coleridge), and the Vanisher;
    former pawn of this Scarlet Centurion (divergent counterpart of Earth-6311's Nathaniel Richards);
    the Man-Thing unwittingly facilitated his passage to Earth-616, which also eliminated the effects of the Behavior Modification device's re-programming

Enemies: Kayla Ballantine, Ereshkigal (in her alias as Holly Steckley), Fred, Jennifer Kale, Ned, Quasar (Wendell Vaughn), Traci, patrons at restaurants/pubs he frequented, police he encountered;
    at least formerly (but almost certainly he would consider them enemies after the reversal of his behavior modification) AIDA, Adrienne Dore, Andrew, Drusilla, Katrina & Philip Jones, Howard Shelton, the Squadron Supreme (Amphibian/Kingsley Rice, Blue Eagle/James Dore Jr., Doctor Spectrum/Joseph Ledger, Foxfire/Olivia Underwood, Hyperion/"Mark Milton," Lady Lark/Linda Lewis (later Skylark), Nuke/Albert Gaines, Power Princess/Zarda Shelton, Skymax the Skrullian Spymaster (Sk'ym'x), Tom Thumb/Thomas Thompson, Whizzer/Stanley Stewart), Madeline and Tina Stewart;
    at least while controlled by the Darkling: Black Knight (Dane Whitman), Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin), Dagger (Tandy Bowen), Darkhawk (Chris Powell), Firestar (Angelica Jones), Nova (Richard Rider), Rage (Elvin Haladay), Speedball (Robbie Baldwin), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), the Thing (Ben Grimm), and Turbo (Mike Jeffries);
    formerly Antibody of Earth-148611;
    Power Princess and Hyperion made the decision to the pull the plug on his life support and had no idea he would somehow survive, but it was done only to eliminate the risk to others in what seemed to be an otherwise no-win situation);
    inadvertently Doctor Decibel (I don't believe anyone else perished in the hospital as a result of Quagmire's muck release)

Known Relatives: Unidentified mother (allegedly deceased)

Aliases: "Quaggy" (from Lamprey?; Quagmire also introduced himself by that alias); "Quag" (from Foxfire); "Q-Ball" (from an unidentified ex-con);
    "sleaze" (from Quasar); "Goldilocks" (from Fred); "Mudslinger" (from Quasar)

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    at least briefly the Darkforce Dimension;
    formerly mobile in the southeast USA, Earth-616;
    briefly the Vault prison in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA, Earth-616;
    formerly Squadron City, Great American Desert, USA, Earth-712;
    born in Pittsville, Terranova, USA, Earth-712;

Education: Middle School

First Appearance: Squadron Supreme I#4 (December, 1985)

   

quagmire-712-mcp29-fingerprojectionPowers/Abilities: Quagmire's mind creates portals to a dimension (the Darkforce dimension, at least in Reality-616 (see comments)) from which he can summon large amounts of an extradimensional quasi-solid liquid material that is thick, viscous, and black, resembling tar. Hyperion noted that while it resembled tar, it was easily ten times as dense, and that he had more easily swum through molten rock than this material.
    At least while associated with Reality-616, his material was associated with the Darkforce.

    Although opening the dimensional interface with his mind, Quagmire generally projected his muck from his fingertips, but also from his brain/ears (at least when unconscious/comatose). He can also open the interface anywhere within 30' of him. He can control the flow of muck from a thin spray of globules to a thick torrent of oozing slime. The muck is extremely adhesive: a sufficient quantity can immobilize beings of up to Class 100 strength.

    Quagmire can also apply small small quantities of the muck to his fingertips and toes in order to scale walls and ceilings.
    He can shape the muck into animated tendrils or whip them about his person in a psychokinetic tornado.
    He can project the muck from him in the shapes of multiple bullets.

    Quagmire can breathe or otherwise survive and speak when completely immersed in the muck he generates, although normal humans will suffocate if their faces were to covered by the muck.quagmire-712-mcp29-bilateralshield

    There are no known limitations to the amount of muck that Quagmire can generate nor to the amount of material in the dimension from which he summons it.
    Presumably at some point, mental fatigue will eventually affect his ability to maintain the dimensional interface and eventually impair his performance.
    While he is unconscious, the interface is closed, and muck that he has summoned may be rapidly pulled back into its dimension of origin.
    However, after Quagmire had been comatose for apparently several weeks, the interface opened, and muck poured out of his ears, rapidly filling and eventually shattering the confines of a hospital. The presence of the muck was initially speculated to be an indication of some form of recovery, but it rapidly progressed to catastrophic proportions. When his life support was terminated, all of the muck in and around the hospital immediately vanished, pulled back through the interface and apparently taking him with it (although everyone and everything else in the hospital was spared from any vortex/suction/kinetic energy of the muck's disappearance).

    The muck is resistant to the most superhuman abilities:

    His affinity for the Darkforce drew the attention of the Antibody from Earth-148611 (the "New Universe"). While the Antibody initially opposed him and protected Kayla Ballantine (the sort of girlfriend of Quasar, within whom it had "hitched a ride" from Earth-148611 before taking up residence in Kayla), it subsequently entered Quagmire's form and then fell under his influence. The Antibody thereafter acted to defend Quagmire.

    Quagmire almost constantly smoked cigarettes and cigars, which would give him a characteristic odor, although he is known for his odors additionally (via eructation, flatulence, and presumably other bodyquagmire-712-ss5-cycle odor/musk)).

    Although speaking in slang and being a high school dropout, Quagmire is of above average intelligence (see comments). He enjoyed making puns/plays on words.

    He did not like to be called "sir," as he used that word to mock people putting on airs. He has a taste for underage women and is generally something a deviant.

    Quagmire is of athletic strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes. He is a good and experienced hand-to-hand combatant (he was a challenge to the S.H.I.E.L.D.-trained Quasar), and he is more than willing to fight dirty.

    He is skilled at lockpicking and sculpting.

    Quagmire rode a motorcycle, and it seemed that he had a sidecar for Foxfire, although she may have had her own, uniquely-styled motorcycle.

    He wears a leather and rayon costume.


Height: 6' (see comments)
Weight: 185 lbs. (see comments)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond
Other Distinguishing Features: Scar above and below right eye;
    Quagmire always had somewhat unique hair patterns. His earlier appearances, on Earth-712, had his sporting a Mohawk and a partial beard, only extending from the right side of his chin.
    After getting out of the Vault on Earth-616, he had a mostly shaved head, with two particular locks of hair, banded at their bases and extending from the right top front and left top back region.
    He had left earring connected to a left nosering by a golden chain. He at least previously, on Earth-712, had a least a pair of right earrings.
   

History:

quagmire-712-ss4-vsspec (Quasar I#37 (fb) - BTS) - Quagmire allegedly slew his own mother, whose upbringing had allegedly led him to be a criminal.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition#25: Quagmire profile) - Quagmire is skilled at lockpicking and sculpting.

(Squadron Supreme I#4 (fb) - BTS) - Quagmire fought and was defeated by Dr. Spectrum.quagmire-712-ss9-coc

(Squadron Supreme I#9 (fb)) - The Scarlet Centurion participated in a contest of champions against Reality-616's Grandmaster, organizing the Institute of Evil (Ape X, Dr. Decibel, Foxfire, Lamprey, Mink, Quagmire, Shape) to battle the original seven members of the Squadron Supreme (Amphibian, Dr. Spectrum, Hyperion, Nighthawk, Power Princess, Skymax, Whizzer).


(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition I#8 - Lamprey entry - BTS) - Lamprey was known to confide in his teammate Quagmire.

   

(Squadron Supreme I#6 (fb) - BTS) - Quagmire and the Institute of Evil were sometimes allies with the would-be world conqueror Master Menace.

   

(Squadron Supreme I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Having suspected that the Golden Archer had used the Squadron's Behavior Modification device (B-mod; with which the Squadron had been re-programming/rehabilitating criminals) on Lady Lark to make her love him, Tom re-programmed the B-mod so that it would not work on any Squadron members. 

(Squadron Supreme I#5 (fb) - BTS / Squadron Supreme I#9 (fb) - BTS) <August 15> - A few months after the Squadron had begun their Utopia Program, (presumably under Ape X's guidance) Shape captured the Golden Archer and brought him to the Institute's base of operations. quagmire-712-ss5-cover

(Squadron Supreme I#5) - Quagmire mocked the captive Golden Archer, noting that he was not so tough without his "bully-boy" friends in the Squadron Supreme around. After Doctor Decibel forced Archer to reveal his recent history, Quagmire further mocked that he was going to get "Fallen Archers" by the time the Institute of Evil was through with him.

(Squadron Supreme I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Ape X had Decibel force the Golden Archer to tell them how to operate the Squadron's B-mod device, give them the location of the Squadron Headquarters and a description of their security systems, and the real names of all members and the whereabouts of their relatives.

(Squadron Supreme I#5) - Quagmire asked -- if they had no more use for "Goldie" -- could he could put the Archer out of his misery with a well-placed slime-ball, but Ape X told him to restrain himself as they still needed the Archer as a hostage.

    As part of a plan to her plan to use the Squadron's families to force the heroes to surrender so the Institute could use the B-mod to control them, Ape X sent Quagmire to abduct the Whizzer's wife, Madeline, and daughter, Tina. Grabbing his hair, Foxfire warned Quagmire that she had better not find his muck all over Madeline Stewart.The other Institute of Evil members were sent to abduct Arcanna's husband, Phil, and their three children, Drusilla, Katrina and Andrew; Power Princess' husband, Howard Shelton; and Blue Eagle's mother, Adrienne Dore.

    Quagmire soon after departed for his mission on his motorcycle.

(Squadron Supreme I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Breaking into their house via their door, Quagmire successfully kidnapped Maddie and Tina Stewart, and they were imprisoned in a fenced in area with barbed wire inside the Institute's base alongside the other family members and the Golden Archer.

(Squadron Supreme I#5) - Quagmire joined Decibel, Foxfire, Lamprey, and Shape in bypassing the Squadron headquarters' security measures and entering the building. Quagmire used his slime to black out the headquarters' internal and external security monitors. After Lamprey disabled Tom Thumb's force field, Quagmire captured and bound him with his muck. As Ape X planned, Tom's artificial intelligence AIDA broadcast a pre-programmed emergency signal to the Squadron.quagmire-712-ss5-snagthumb

    As Shape enjoyed shattering the Squadron's equipment, Quagmire teased Tom as "half-pint" and assured him that he would not have to clean up the mess they were making. At Ape X and Decibel's instructions, Quagmire brought Thumb along with himself and Decibel as they sought out the B-mod, while the others were instructed to assume battle stations to prepare for the rest of the Squadron's arrival. Decibel and Quagmire located Tom's laboratory, and when he insisted he would not help them, Quagmire blocked his mouth with some of his extradimensional muck. Decibel placed the B-mod helmet on Tom, and with information gained from the Archer, Decibel proceeded to use the device on him.

(Squadron Supreme I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Tom Thumb pretended to have been altered to serve the Institute of Evil. 

(Squadron Supreme I#5) - As Arcanna, Blue Eagle, Dr. Spectrum, and Lady Lark returned to the their base, Quagmire projected muck at Arcanna, insisting that it was more than a match for her hocus-pocus; as the material was from some dimension beyond Earth, Arcanna could not affect it and could only use a mystic shield to protect herself.

    Tom then showed the Squadron members footage of their hostages, forcing the heroes to surrender. When Blue Eagle warned the Institute that they would die if any of the captives were harmed, but Quagmire replied, "Remind me to shiver, wingnut."

    Hyperion and the Whizzer then arrived, with the former being incapacitated by Lamprey and the latter fleeing upon learning of his family's capture. Quagmire tried to blast and immobilize the Whizzer, but the speedster was long gone before the blast struck.

    The Institute then forced the Squadron members to submit to the B-Mod.quagmire-712-omtude

(Squadron Supreme I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Although they had not known they would be immune, Tom winked at each of his teammates as he placed the helmet on them, and Arcanna and they had the sense to play along so they would be brought to the hostages.

(Squadron Supreme I#5) - Whizzer returned with a machine gun and fired on the Institute, but Quagmire projected a muck barrier to protect himself, and the other Squadron members similarly protected the other Institute members and then took out Whizzer.

(Squadron Supreme I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Whizzer was similarly treated with the B-Mod and similarly played along.

(Squadron Supreme I#5) - The Institute packed up the two completed b-mod machines and traveled with the seemingly converted Squadron members aboard Squadron aircars to travel two hours to the Institute's base.

    After the group's arrival, Quagmire seconded Decibel's crediting Ape X for this success, but the Squadron then swiftly defeated the Institute members -- with Blue Eagle dropping Quagmire via a kick to the head -- and freed their hostages.

(Squadron Supreme I#12 (fb)) - Quagmire was at the bottom of the pile of defeated Institute members when Amphibian tossed the apparently unconscious Lamprey on top of the pile.
   
   
(Squadron Supreme I#6 (fb) - BTS) - The Squadron Supreme members voted to use the B-mod device on the Institute members, removing their ability to perform criminal activities (Quagmire later noted that any time he considered such activity, he was severely nauseated) and preventing them from lying, betraying, or refusing a direct instruction/request from one of the main Squadron members.quagmire-712-ss8-flirt
   
   
(Squadron Supreme I#12 (fb)) - Quagmire waited in line in wrist restraints as Foxfire was subjected to the B-mod, while the already treated Lamprey and Shape greeted Power Princess as allies.

(Captain America I#314 (fb)) - After the completion of his behavior modification, Quagmire shook Hyperion's hand.
   

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Deluxe Edition I#12 - Squadron Supreme) - Following his behavior modification, Quagmire was pardoned of his previous crimes.
   

(Squadron Supreme I#6 (fb) - BTS) - Squadron City was constructed in the Great American Desert. The former Institute members helped in the construction.
   

(Squadron Supreme I#6) - As the road crew (ex-convict's who had been subjected to the B-mod) finished on Squadron City's landing field, Quagmire formed a disc of muck over them to shield them from the desert sun. However, it dripped muck on them, and one of them asked if he could keep his floating tar pit from dripping all over them. Quagmire explained that he was just trying to help but could not control the mess, and another worker told "Q-Ball" to do them a favor and not do them any favors.
   

(Squadron Supreme I#6 - BTS / Squadron Supreme I#9 (fb) - BTS) <September 21> - The Squadron Supreme was so pleased with the way Quagmire and the other former Institute of Evil members were working out, they voted to officially welcome them to the team as fully fledged members; casting the tie-breaking vote, Hyperion instructed that they be broken into field duty slowly, starting their initiation first thing in the morning, when each of the new members would report to a different core member.
   

(Squadron Supreme I#7) - Quagmire was present at the meeting as Princess Power announced Hyperion's amnesiac state following a meteor collision (in reality, Master Menace had dimensionally displaced the real Hyperion and replaced him with the Grandmaster-616-created Hyperion construct from the Squadron Sinister). When Tom Thumb announced that he would go the site of the collision first thing in the morning, expecting to find some of the radioactive material that made Hyperion sick, Quagmire volunteered to accompany him.

    The next day, Quagmire attended the funeral of Howard Shelton, Power Princess' husband, whom the Hyperion imposter had covertly slain so that he could romance her.

(Squadron Supreme I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Uncomfortable with Quagmire's appearance and behavior, at some point straight-laced Blue Eagle warned him that is he caught him "squirreling around" once more, he was going to be in "big trouble."

(Squadron Supreme I#8) - One time zone to the east of -- and several hundred miles away from -- Squadron City, Quagmire accompanied Blue Eagle and Ape X to the facility in which the drug used in the Squadron's Pacifier Pellets -- designed by Ape X and used by law enforcement officials to tranquilize lawbreakers -- was synthesized. quagmire-712-ss8-puncheddown

    Quagmire shared with Blue Eagle that he could not figure out why they had to hang around, as Ape X was the only one who had a clue what was going on. As they passed an attractive technician, Quagmire said, "Hey sweet thing, how's it going?" Blue Eagle ordered Quagmire outside and reminded him of his warning. Quagmire replied that all he did was smile and be nice, but Blue Eagle continued that they were there to make a good impression and that that was impossible to do with the way Quagmire looked and acted.

    Lighting a cigarette, Quagmire responded that he knew Blue Eagle did not like him, but that he had not done anything wrong and, thanks to the behavior modification, he could not do anything wrong. Yanking the cigarette out of his mouth, Blue Eagle punched Quagmire, who replied that publically punching him probably was not good for their image either. He continued that thanks to the programming, he could not even think of hitting him back without puking, and he asked why Blue Eagle didn't kick him while he was down. The furious Blue Eagle flew away.quagmire-712-ss9-rescue

(Squadron Supreme I#8 (fb) - BTS / Squadron Supreme I#9 (fb)) - As Blue Eagle spent 15 minutes working off his frustrations, a vat at the facility was accidentally punctured while a conduit was being replaced. As lethal doses of the highly-concentrated tranquilizer gas escaped, Quagmire ran in and pulled 30 people to safety before collapsing.

(Squadron Supreme I#8) - After Blue Eagle returned and Ape X told him what had happened, he considered that if he had not been joyriding, he would have been there to help. He then asked the location of the nearest hospital and flew Quagmire there.

(Squadron Supreme I#8 - BTS) - At the Squadron meeting that night, Dr. Decibel reported that Quagmire had not responded to any treatment thus far, and that he was in a deep coma with minimal brain activity. Noting that Quagmire was a "hardy fellow," he continued that he prayed that his condition would improve once he metabolized more of the toxin.

    At Power Princess' query, Ape X clarified that the fault was not in the product but that he had taken a dosage 100x what was in a single pellet. Tom Thumb added that he and Ape X could start looking for an anti-toxin, and Lamprey silently considered that it was unlike Quagmire to pack it by overdosing on something mellow.

    The meeting was interrupted as Hyperion-712 returned, exposed the Hyperion imposter's true nature and then ultimately destroyed the imposter in combat.

(Squadron Supreme I#9 (fb) - BTS) - Tom Thumb tried unsuccessfully to come with an antidote for the drug that had incapacitated Quagmire.

    Dr. Decibel (presumably) suspected that if Quagmire did recover, he may have brain damage.
   
   

(Squadron Supreme I#9 (fb) - BTS) <The day before the main story, and likely daily prior to that> - Blue Eagle checked on Quagmire, who had not improved whatsoever.

(Squadron Supreme I#9) - Blue Eagle checked on Quagmire who remained comatose and on life support. Blue Eagle hoped he would recover so he could make up for having mistreated Quagmire.
   
   
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quagmire-712-ss10-lifesupportslime(Squadron Supreme I#10 (fb) - BTS) - Although he apparently remained comatose, extradimensional muck began to emerge from Quagmire's ears (or just from his head).

(Squadron Supreme I#10) - As he went to check on Quagmire, Dr. Decibel discovered the muck on the floor outside his door and found it spreading across the surfaces of his hospital room. Decibel wondered if this indicated that Quagmire was coming out of his coma.

(Squadron Supreme I#10 (fb) - BTS) - Soon, the muck became overwhelming.

(Squadron Supreme I#10 - BTS) - Dr. Decibel contacted the Squadron for help.

(Squadron Supreme I#10 (fb) - BTS) - Dr. Decibel apparently suffocated under the muck.

quagmire-712-ss10-hospitalmucked(Squadron Supreme I#10 - BTS) - The Squadron arrived at the hospital as muck poured out of its doors and other openings.

    None of the Squadron members could contain the progressively expanding muck.

    After Hyperion and Dr. Spectrum had rescued the rest of the hospital's staff -- both Hyperion and Power Princess appreciated that Decibel was likely already dead and that the muck would soon threaten Squadron City and then beyond.
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    They resolved that only way to shut down the aperture in Quagmire's brain was to pull the plug on his life support.quagmire-712-ss10-plugspulled

(Squadron Supreme I#10) - Although it took him almost half an hour, Hyperion swam through the muck, navigating by feel, to Quagmire's room and unplugged his life support, praying he could forgive them as he did so.

    The millions of tons of muck vanished, pulled back through the portal in Quagmire's brain, and Quagmire was pulled with it.

(Squadron Supreme I#10 - BTS) - Hyperion recovered Dr. Decibel's corpse, and when Whizzer noted that Quagmire had had a dirty way to die, Dr. Spectrum replied, "They all are, pal."


(Marvel Comics Presents#29/4 (fb) - BTS) - Quagmire had been pulled through a nexus on his world.

(Marvel Comics Presents#29/4 (fb) - BTS) - Some of Quagmire's muck emerged in Earth-616's Citrusville, Florida swamp containing the Nexus of Realities. A dark speck floated in the air, turning into a "black globby mass" in the space of a day. The Nexus' guardian, the Man-Thing, investigated, and the black mass attached itself to and then seeped inside the creature's body. The Man-Thing was unable to dislodge the alien matter inside itself, and it grew within his abdominal section, mimicking a pregnancy.
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(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition#25: Quagmire profile) - Quagmire's journey and transformation somehow reversed the effects of the Behavior Modification therapy on him).

(Marvel Comics Presents#29/4 - BTS) - Quasar was drawn to the Nexus of Realities, apparently due to the energies generated by Quagmire's arrival and the release of his extradimensional muck. He encountered Jennifer Kale, who brought him to the Man-Thing and explained the recent events via her rapport with the creature.

    With Jennifer's guidance, Quasar performed something akin to a Ceasarian section with the goal of extricating the being within before it reached full-term.

(Marvel Comics Presents#29/4) -  Both Quasar and Kale were surprised as they removed the fully grown and clothed Quagmire, after which Quagmire suddenly revived and punched Quasar back, telling him, "Hands off the merchandise, Blondie." Seeing "a chick in a metal bikini" (Jennifer), Quagmire grabbed her -- while spraying muck over Quasar -- as he noted that he must have died and gone to Heaven, and he further told Quasar to back off as she was his "squeeze" now.

    At Jennifer's query of who he was and where he was from, he replied, "They call me Quagmire, an' I'm from Earth, where else?" As he held her to the ground, Quagmire told Jennifer that it had been really cold where he had been and suggested she warm him up.

    Quasar ordered Quagmire to let Jennifer go and then blasted him back with a quantum projection; however, Quagmire's muck proved able to resist the quantum energy, and he noted that his use of bracelets shooting solid light reminded him of this "other feeb" (Dr. Spectrum) he knew, and he challenged "brightboy" to give it his best shot, noting that his money was on the muck.

    As Quagmire went on the offensive, his muck proved capable of penetrating Quasar's force field, after which Quasar changed tactics, blasting the ground under Quasar's feet, pelting him with flying rocks, and then assaulting him physically.

    Although Quagmire got in a knee to Quasar's stomach, Quasar's S.H.I.E.L.D. martial arts training allowed him to take out Quagmire with a few punches to the face.

    With Quagmire unconscious, the mudstorm blanketing the swamp faded. Having glimpsed some images from Quagmire's mind when he grabbed her, Jennifer told Quasar that he had come from the Earth of the Squadron Supreme. Quasar encased Quagmire in a quantum energy tube and took him away.

(Quasar I#35 (fb) - BTS) - Quagmire was incarcerated in the Vault prison in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

(Quasar I#35) - The Chief Examiner appeared before Quagmire's cell (disappointing him when he realized that it was not time for dinner), identifying him by name, noting that he had freed the Angler, and asking if he freed Quagmire would he be willing to perform a simple task for him. Interested, Quagmire told him to continue.

 (Quasar I#36 (fb) - BTS) - The Chief Examiner sent Quagmire to find Kayla Ballantine so he could adapt the Star Brand power she had acquired. He laid down a large pool of his extradimensional muck on the road on which they were traveling.

 (Quasar I#36) - Quagmire waited by the side of the road and put his thumb up to hitch a ride as Kayla Ballantine and "Holly Steckley" (secretly the Deviant Ereshkigal) drove by en route to Disneyworld; put off by his appearance, they drove past, but they swiftly ran into his muck, which was very slick and caused them to careen off the road. Quagmire then approached and asked if they needed any help. quagmire-712-quas43-bar

    After helping them out of vehicle, Quagmire dropped a blob of muck onto their feet trapping them there. When he noted that he was there for "blondie," one of the Antibodies (composed of a similar dark material and having accompanied Kayla back from Earth-148611) punched her in the eye. Eventually catching the Antibody in a blob of muck, Quagmire hurled it to the ground and stomped on it.

    Quagmire then opened up the Chief Examiner's portal and forced Kayla through it. He subsequently noted that while his boss did not want Holly, he himself might be interested if she played her cards right. Secretly wishing to acquire the Star Brand power for herself, "Holly" followed Kayla through the portal. Although surprised at this turn of events, Quagmire considered that he had paid off his debt.

 (Quasar I#37) - While seeking out the "corpse" of the Antibody that had assaulted him, Quagmire reabsorbed the muck he had created. Eventually, he gave up on finding the creature and considered that he was free to "rob, pillage, menace, and perpetrate like the public enemy Mama Quagmire raised me to be -- 'fore I offed her." However, as he walked away, the Antibody flew into his back without his knowledge.quagmire-712-quas43-antibody

 (Quasar I#43 (fb) - BTS) - At Jim Dot's (or Jim Oot's) Pub in North Carolina, Quagmire sat at the bar, doing shots, burping, and creating a literal stink.

 (Quasar I#43) - Eventually, a pair of locals, Ned and Fred, became fed up and approached Quagmire from behind. They told Quagmire that they did like his sounds and smells and advised him to leave if he could not behave in public. While Quagmire did not even turn to look at them, the now-fully human-sized Antibody emerged from his body and punched back both men. As they stood, stunned and puzzled, the Antibody re-entered Quagmire, who continued to do shots and burp, at least.

 (Quasar I#44) - Quagmire hung out a restaurant, splattering others present with his extradimensional muck to keep them from interfering with his actions

 (Quasar I#44) - Enjoying a burger, Quagmire used a string of muck to pull the waitress Traci onto his lap and asked her for a kiss. When she told him she was only sixteen, he told her not to apologize for her lack of experience, but he was then interrupted by police officers seeking to arrest him. Ignoring their order to freeze, he dumped Traci to the ground and assaulted the officers with his muck. When one of them fired on him, the Antibody extended a protective hand to catch the bullet, after which Quagmire projected a number of dark matter bullets into the officer, knocking him out the window.

(Quasar I#44 - BTS) - Investigating Kayla's disappearance, Quasar (at the time possessing Earth-148611's Star Brand power and lacking his Quantum Bands) found some of Quagmire's muck at the site from which Kayla's car had been towed, and he followed it and police reports to Quagmire's location.

(Quasar I#44) - First rescuing Traci, Quasar tackled Quagmire and demanded his surrender, but Quagmire covered him and muck. Eventually breaking out with a burst of the Star Brand energy, Quasar insisted he make all of the crud he had generated vanish, but then the Antibody punched Quasar in the back of the head. quagmire-712-quas44-bullets

    Quagmire complimented "Mudpie" on his work, noting that his feeding on the murk he generated had made him "downright awright." Quagmire then had the Antibody join him in trying to stomp Quasar to death, but Quasar grabbed them both by the ankle and flew into the air, intending to drop Quasar on his head and see if it made the muck disappear. The Antibody slipped free and flew to attack Quasar, but he blasted it away and then began rapidly spinning Quagmire while asking him about the two women he had encountered in a car a few weeks back. Quagmire told him to go "frass" himself; however, as soon as Quasar let Quagmire go, he vanished, and Quasar could not detect or trace him with his Star Brand vision.

(Quasar I#44 - BTS) - Absorbing all of the muck Quagmire had generated, the Antibody grew to giant size and confronted Quasar.

 (Quasar I#45 - BTS) - Quasar battled the giant Antibody, which subsequently split into many human-sized versions; the Antibodies were apparently destroyed after the Presence and Neutron attacked Quasar and Quasar forced the latter to smash the former's armor: The explosive nuclear energy apparently destroyed the Antibodies.

 (New Warriors I#33) - Quagmire was one of many people -- including Black Mamba (Tanya Sealy), Silhouette Cord, Ectasy (Renee Deladier), Shroud (Maximillian Coleridge) and the Vanisher -- who manifested their powers from the energies of the Darkforce Dimension -- affected/co-opted by Darkling (Henrique Gallant).
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    Investigating Darkling's energies, Dr. Strange observed Quagmire and the others, determined that the power affecting them came from Earth and returned back there to oppose that threat; nonetheless, he promised to return there to help them all.

(New Warriors I#34) - Alongside Black Mamba, Silhouette, Ectasy, and Shroud, Quagmire emerged from the Darkforce dimension via Cloak's cloak. With all of them under Gallante's influence, they assaulted Dagger, Nova, and Rage.

    After Rage fell under Gallante's power as well, Cloak transported the group to a battle with non-Darkforce controlled heroes, including Black Knight, Crystal, Darkhawk, Firestar, Speedball, Spider-Man, the Thing, and Turbo (male), after which the Darkling confronted them all.

(New Warriors Annual#3 - BTS) - Those under the Darkling's influence -- presumably including Quagmire -- continued to fight the heroes until Dagger, Dr. Strange, Silhouette and others made Darkling see that there was good in others and that they may help and care for him. Darkling withdrew his power, releasing those under his control.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Comments: Created by Mark Gruenwald, Bob Hall, and Sam De La Rosa.

    I'm not sure what the drug in the pacifier pellets was. Most sedative are fairly short-acting, but if someone was oversedated, they may stop breathing or breathe minimally, and they could suffer brain damage from hypoxia (low oxygen). Or perhaps liver damage from some sort of benzodiazepine (like diazepam/Valium or midazolam/Versed). Or perhaps it was some type of novel sedative not existing in the real world...
    Anyway, my point was that it was less likely that he still had the drug in his system, so an antidose/reversal agent (which already existed for most opiates/narcotics, benzodiazepines, and alpha-2 antagonists) would not do much days after the overdosing.

    If Quagmire had stuck around for the end of the series, given his behavior in his subsequent appearances in Reality-616 where he had regained his original personality and returned to criminal ways, I would think he would have been like Lamprey and happily turned against the Squadron.

    On that same note, when Quagmire arrived on Earth-616, the effects of the B-mod were seemingly wiped out, and he reverted to his perverted and villainous ways. The Master Edition notes that his passage through the Man-Thing's body reversed the B-mod's effects.

    Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe profiles comments:

    I would like to see Quagmire again, whether on Earth-616, or on a re-formed Earth-712. Even if the rest of the Squadron/Earth-712 never comes back, Quagmire was last seen associated with Earth-616, so he would not be affected by anything that happened to his native reality.

    Upon his revival after being reborn via the Man-Thing, the scar over his right eye looked more like a stylized lightning bolt rather than a traumatic scar.
    Quasar I#35-37 makes it look like Quagmire's right eye (the one with the scar over it) is solid white and damaged. The images from the Squadron Supreme series don't support that, nor do the subsequent appearances in #43...but the eye is opaque again in #44.
    You can't see his eyes clearly in his only appearances thereafter, in New Warriors I#33-34

    Some sources list Quagmire as appearing in Quasar I#50. As far as I can tell, he's pictured in one panel which is a flashback/retelling of the scene where Holly Steckley (Ereshkigal) follows Kayla Ballantine through the portal to Scadam.

DC Counterparts

    The Squadron Supreme started out as homage/parody of DC's Justice League. Most characters introduced in the succeeding years did have parallels to DC characters.
    There's an interview with Mark Gruenwald in Amazing Heroes#70 where he discusses the then-forthcoming Squadron Supreme mini, and mentions the Institute of Evil, indicating which members were arch foes of which heroes (identifications in brackets mine) - Hyperion to Burbank (Superman to Lex), Nighthawk to Wild Card (who became Remnant - so Batman to Joker), Whizzer to Ape X (Flash, and his ape nemesis is Gorilla Grodd rather than Ultra-Humanite), Doctor Spectrum to Insidio (I've seen claims this was Foxfire's original name, but without confirmation of that it could still be Quagmire, with Spectrum=Green Lantern and Insidio=Sinestro being a much clearer match), and Power Princess to Minx (suggesting Mink, who is a Catwoman analogue, was originally a Cheetah analogue). This last is supported I feel by the image of the Squadron's first battle with the Institute, where PP is clearly facing off against Mink.
    IF we ASSume that each hero and villain are matched in that image, nemesis to nemesis, AND that the villains at least started as analogues of the respective DC nemeses, then we need to be looking at the foes of Martian Manhunter, Aquaman and Batman to find our analogues for Shape, Doctor Decibel and either Foxfire or Quagmire (depending on which is Spectrum's arch foe); I'm assuming Lamprey (Parasite) is Hyperion (Superman)'s opponent in the absence of Burbank/Luther. This might suggest that Shape is Clayface.
    I think that given he could form his darkness into solid shapes controlled by his mind, I suspect that he's more the villain counterpart to Doctor Spectrum, which would make his DC analogue Sinestro.
    --Loki
    The Sinestro analog is supported by the Squadron Supreme#4 panel discussing Quagmire as one of Dr. Spectrum's earliest foes.
    --Snood

    Thanks to David Gallaher for the sweet image to the right, from his own Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe-like profile seen here.
    David will hopefully be writing Appendix profiles in the near future and contributing artwork as well.

   This profile was completed 3/16/2024, but its publication was delayed for the 25th anniversary event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Quagmire should be distinguished from:

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images: (without ads)
Squadron Supreme I#5 cover (full, with Foxfire wrapped around him);
       pg. 8, panel 5 (atop motorcycle);
       pg. 11, panel 5 (capturing Tom Thumb);\
    #8, pg. 5, panel 6 (flirting);
        pg. 6, panel 5 (punched down by Blue Eagle)
    #9, pg. 6, panel 3 (rescuing people from pacifier gas leak);
       (SqSup vs. IoE Contest of Champions)
    #10, pg. 10, panel 6 (on life support, projecting slime unconsciously);
       pg. 18, panel 6 (slime streaming out of hospital);
       pg. 23, panel 2 (under slime, on life support; Decibel dead on ground);
           panel 4 (plugs pulled);
Marvel Comics Presents I#29/4, pg. 5, panel 5 (face, right oblique);
       pg. 6, panel 3 (blocking bilateral attacks);
          panel 4 (projecting much from fingertips);
Quasar I#37, pg. 6, panel 3 (kneeling, modified hair style);
    #43, last page, panel 3 (sitting at bar);
       panel 5 (Antibody jumping out of body and decking two guys challenging Quagmire);
    #44, pg. 5, panel 9 (shooting "bullets" out of body);
New Warriors I#33, pg. 14, panel 1 (in Darkforce dimension);
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe II (Deluxe Edition) #12: Squadrons Supreme entry: Quagmire sub-profile
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition#25: Quagmire entry - he could be older and/or dyed his facial hair white and/or grown another patch of hair on the right side of chin to match the one on his left, and changed his hairlocks to be on midline; but it is not an appearance he used in the stories...he typically had one shock of blond hair from right right chin only, and then on top of his head, he had one shock of blond hair on the left front/top, and one on the right back/top.
David Gallaher OHotMU-style image (above right, in the comments section)
Bob Hall Quagmire art commission (to the left) - from this site:

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Appearances:
 Squadron Supreme I#4 (December, 1985) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Bob Hall (pencils), Sam De La Rosa (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
 Squadron Supreme I#5 (January, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Bob Hall (pencils), Sam De La Rosa (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Squadron Supreme I#6 (February, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Paul Ryan (pencils), Sam De La Rosa (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Captain America I#314 (February, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Paul Neary (penciler), Dennis Janke (inker),
Squadron Supreme I#7 (March, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), John Buscema (pencils), Jackson Guice (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Squadron Supreme I#8 (April, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Bob Hall (pencils), Sam De La Rosa (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Squadron Supreme I#9-10 (May-June, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Paul Ryan (pencils), Sam De La Rosa (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Squadron Supreme I#12 (August, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Paul Ryan (pencils), Sam De La Rosa (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe II (Deluxe Edition) #12: Squadron Supreme entry: Quagmire sub-profile (November, 1986) - Mark Gruenwald (writer/producer), Steve Saffel, Peter Sanderson (writers/researchers), Paul Ryan (penciler), Josef Rubinstein (inker), Marc Siry, Harry Eisenstein, David Wohl (editorial assistants), Howard Mackie (assistant editor)

Marvel Comics Presents I#29/4 (Early October, 1989) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Paul Ryan (penciler), Danny Bulanadi (inker), Michael Rockwitz (assistant editor), Terry Kavanaugh (editor)
Quasar I#35-37 (June-August, 1992) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Greg Capullo (penciler), Harry Candelario (inker), Kelly Corvese (editor)

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition#25 (December, 1992) - Peter Sanderson & Murray Ward (research, text), Keith Pollard (penciler), Josef Rubinstein (inker), Mindy Newell (with David Wohl (consultant)) (assistant editor), Tom Brevoort (editor), Mark Gruenwald (senior executive editor)

Quasar I#43-44 (February-March, 1993) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Andy Smith (penciler), Ralph Cabrera (inker), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Quasar I#45 (April, 1993) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Greg Miehm (penciler), Dave & Dan Day (inker), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
New Warriors I#33-34 (March-April, 1993) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Darick Robertson (penciler), Larry Mahlstedt (inker), Rob Tokar (editor)
New Warriors Annual#3 (1993) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Darick Robertson (penciler), Chris Marrinan, Javier Saltares, Larry Mahlstedt & Mark McKenna (inkers), Rob Tokar (editor)

First posted: 09/03/2026
Last updated: 08/31/2026

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