Real
Name: Randolph Maas RANDOLPH MAAS
Real
Name: Randolph Maas
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Patient
Group Membership: Folcroft Sanitarium inmates
Affiliations: Doctor Connie Deep, Angel, Cynthia, Laura
Enemies: Formerly Chiun, Conrad MacCleary, Remo Williams
Known Relatives: Unidentified parents
Aliases: Randy
Base of Operations: Folcroft Sanitarium, Rye, New
York;
formerly 55 Woodlawn St, Boston, Ma. 02130
First
Appearance: Destroyer I#4 (January 1990)
Powers/Abilities: Maas possessed superhuman strength, endurance and durability. His skin is bulletproof, and his nails strong enough for him to rip apart cars. It's uncertain how severe his brain damage was to begin with, but after being dosed with testosterone and radiation he mostly grunted and growled, and mistook billboards for real people. He did seem to have some comprehension of speech, since he responded to being asked his name, albeit somewhat dysphonically.
Height: (original)
5'4" (by guesstimation); (transformed) 12' (by estimation)
Weight: (original) 90 lbs.
(by estimation) ; (transformed) 1770 lbs. (by estimation)
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: (original) Unrevealed; (transformed) Unrevealed
(bald)
History:
(Destroyer I#4 (fb) - BTS) -
Originally of 55 Woodlawn Street in Boston, Randolph Maas suffered
cyanosis, a heart condition that caused insufficient oxygenation of the
blood. This left him with pale blue skin and brain damage, so in 1975 as
a boy his parents committed him to Folcroft Sanitorium in New York
State, where he spent the next fifteen years of his life.
In 1990 biochemist Connie Deep of Deep
Biochemical Research of Port Chester and her three colleagues, Cynthia,
Laura and Angel, had reached the conclusion that all the good men had
left the dating scene and married, leaving only losers unsuitable for
professional women like them, so they decided to create their own. The
came up with a process that they believed could transform a physical
weakling into a muscular stud, but needed a docile specimen to test it
out, with the intention of creating more if the first one worked out.
Doing some research Deep learned of Maas, and deemed him ideal for their
attempt to create the perfect sexual athlete, since his medical
condition would make him resistant to some of the more pernicious side
effects of the process.
Unknown to the scientists, and indeed to
virtually everyone, while Folcroft was a genuine sanitarium, it was also
the base of operations for Cure, an extremely covert black ops group
working directly for the U.S. President, meaning any security breach at
Folcroft would draw their attention.
(Destroyer I#4) -
Connie, Cynthia and Laura broke into Folcroft Sanitarium during the
night and extracted Maas from his room, knocking him out with chloroform
(or a similar anesthetic). Finding him too heavy to hoist him up by rope
through the skylight they had used for entry, they instead took
advantage of the next day being a scheduled trash day and hid the
unconscious man in a large garbage can. Then, once the sanitarium's
janitors had taken the trash out in the morning the women transferred
Maas to their car. They took him to their lab where Laura had been
setting things up, and exposed him to high dosages of testosterone and
epsilon radiation, triggering a transformation that caused massive
muscle, body hair and height growth, as well as baldness. Unfortunately
the growth also broke the restraints holding him to the laboratory
gurney, and he woke in an extremely aggressive state. With all his male
characteristics over-amplified and over-stimulated, including his
libido, he smashed his way out of the lab, causing a building collapse
that killed everyone else bar Connie, who was left in a critical
condition. Then Maas wandered off into the city looking for women,
smashing anything that in his path. As he tore apart downtown Port
Chester he was spotted by Cure operative Conrad MacLeary, who had
tracked the break in back to the lab and then followed the sounds of
destruction. When MacLeary tried to shoot Maas the bullets bounced off,
and Maas drop-kicked a taxi at him. Narrowly evading, MacLeary called in
Cure's assassins, the Sinanju master Chiun and his unwilling student
Remo Williams. By the time they arrived Maas was climbing up the side of
a building to reach a billboard depicting a bikini-clad model, but the
blue man became even more enraged when he discovered the giant women was
only a picture. Spotting some actual women on the ground watching, Maas
leapt down and snatched some of them up, unconcerned by their screams of
terror. Seeking to rescue them, the two Cure operatives approached Maas
from different directions, and when Maas failed to respond (or even
notice) verbal taunts, Remo snuck up behind the giant and gave him a
wedgie. That got Maas' enraged attention, and he dropped the women to
lunge for Remo. Dodging Maas' blow, Remo tried to employ judo and throw
his assailant, but Maas simply raised his arm, lifting Remo with it, and
waved him off, sending him flying. Losing interest, Maas stormed off.
Maas spotted a strip club (presumably drawn by the pictures rather than signs, since it was unlikely he could understand writing), and headed for it, but before he could enter several police cars arrived and surrounded him. However, Maas easily ripped apart the vehicles, threw the cops around, and then took a shotgun blast to the chest without flinching. Seeing scantily clad women fleeing out the club drew Maas' attention away, and he ripped into the building, using the wall rather than the door. This gave the police the opening to throw knock out gas in after him, and with the confined space helping to keep him engulfed, Maas stumbled and then finally passed out. Remo, Chiun and MacLeary took this opportunity to check with Connie in the hospital to learn what had been done to Maas (and then MacLeary killed her, to maintain Cure's security). Meanwhile the police were trying to move the sleeping Maas, but the stretchers they tried to lift him with kept breaking. Then he woke up, crushing one cop's pistol hand and smashing the car of a cop trying to flee, causing it to explode and kill the occupant. Maas continued to slaughter the officers, and was finishing the last one off, lifting him aloft to throttle him, when the Cure agents returned. Taking a novelty balloon of a nearly naked woman from the strip bar and hastily inflating it, Remo tied it behind their car and used it to lure Maas into chasing them out of the city to a freight yard devoid of civilians. Chiun then moved in to confront Maas, dodging his wild swipes with casual ease until Maas began to tire. When Maas kept being distracted by the inflatable, Chiun threatened to "kill" her if he didn't surrender, and when Maas failed to comply (likely not even understanding the instruction), Chiun popped the balloon. Enraged, Maas ripped up a metal pole and tried to strike Chiun, who again dodged effortlessly, then grabbed at Maas' wrist and twisted it, hitting a nerve point that instantly eliminated Maas' libido. Instantly becoming docile, Maas let himself be taken back to Folcroft and returned to his cell, where he peacefully dozed off.
With no likelihood he would return to normal,
the decision was taken to leave him be, and, assuming his weak heart
didn't give out, to continue being just another patient, albeit a very
big one.
Comments: Created by Will Murray and Tom Morgan.
The Destroyer
magazine and comics were based on The Destroyer series of novels by
Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir in 1971 with Created, the Destroyer, and
which still continues to this day with over 155 books in the series.
There was a movie adaptation, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,
released in 1985, starring Fred Ward in the title role, and a TV pilot,
Remo Williams: The Prophecy, in 1988 with Jeffrey Meek playing Remo. The
movie is cheesy but fun, and worth checking out; the TV pilot can be
seen on sites such as Youtube, albeit it appears sourced via poor
quality video recordings from TV, but is pretty terrible. Marvel's
version does not share the timelines of any of these, as there are some
irreconcilable continuity differences - notably, Remo's fellow CURE
agent Conrad MacCleary dies in the first novel, the movie, and the
eighth issue of Marvel's magazine, in each case under markedly different
circumstances.
So what timeline does Marvel's version of the
Destroyer belong to? It's actually entirely feasible that it could be
Earth-616, the main Marvel timeline, especially if we assume the stories
are set in the 1990s, when they were published, which thanks to the
sliding timescale is several decades prior to the debut of the Fantastic
Four. As a result the 1990s were a comparatively quiet period in terms
of superhuman activities, so Remo not running into any known Marvel
heroes nor mentioning them would be understandable. And Maas himself
would fit very well in 616; the credits page of the issue even describes
him as a "rampaging blue hulk."
MacLeary described Maas as being twelve feet
tall, and Remo said he was 300 lbs., but both seemed to speaking
figuratively rather than giving accurate descriptions. Based on
comparisons with other people, he seemed about twice the height of an average person, so somewhere between 11 and 12 feet tall, with
the musculature (and hence presumably weight) of a body builder of that
size.
The story was in black and white, but the
cover depicted Maas' blue arm, so I've taken the liberty of using
photoshop to color in his main image using the same shade, to get a
rough idea what he might have looked like. Underpants colors were purely
a guess.
This profile was completed on 09/25/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent The Destroyer.
Profile by Loki.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Randolph Maas has no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
Destroyer I#4,
p25, pan6 (main image and colored version)
Destroyer I#4,
p17, pan1 (pre-transformation headshot)
Destroyer I#4, p13,
pan1 (pre-transformation)
Appearances:
Destroyer I#4 (January 1990) -
Will Murray (writer), Tom Morgan (art), Howard Mackie (editor)
First Posted: 09/28/2026
Last updated: 09/25/2026
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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