nopictureavailableSILVER MONSTER

Real Name: Silver Monster (or none)

Identity/Class: Artificial construct

Occupation: Warrior

Group Membership: Agent of I.C.O.N. (International Crime Organization Nexus)

Affiliations: Ludwig von Frankenstein (aka Rainbow)

Enemies: Berserker, Frankenstein's monster, Peregrine (Alain Racine), Shamrock (Molly Fitzgerald), S.H.I.E.L.D.;

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    at least formerly, presumably a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment facility;
    formerly I.C.O.N.'s headquarters on a Swiss Alpine mountain top;

First Appearance: Unpublished Shamrock & Peregrine story (see comments)

Powers/Abilities: The Silver Monster has similar physical abilities to the Frankenstein's monster, including superhuman strength (able to lift somewhere over 2 tons but not more than 10), immune to aging and conventional disease and has extraordinary resistance to pain,

    Additionally, his skin is covered with a silvery material similar if not identical to that of the Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd), rendering him virtually indestructible.

    However, he still needs to breathe, and he can at least be rendered unconscious via suffocation. Intense cold may or may not predispose him to suspended animation.

Height: 8'
Weight: Unrevealed (his body would be 325 lbs., plus whatever the coating of the Silver Surfer weighs over his volume)
Eyes: Presumably silver coated
Hair: Presumably either none or silver-coated

History:

(Silver Surfer I#7) - Via his X-Machine, Ludwig von Frankenstein replicated the Surfer's power and form from a blob of lifeless clay. Sensing betrayal, the Surfer broke free from Ludwig's device but was then attacked and stunned by newly-created duplicate. Ludwig instructed the duplicate to leave the true Surfer behind and to instead attack the villagers.

(Silver Surfer I#7 - BTS) - The Surfer engaged and ultimately destroyed the duplicate.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#4 (fb)- BTS) - Being thought dead gave him the freedom to use the X-Machine's virtually limitless power to create the organization ICON (International Crime Organizations Nexus), another tool in his quest for immortality. Within the organization, he was only by the codename "Rainbow."

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#4 (fb) - BTS) - Ludwig learned of the existence of his second cousin, twice-removed, Victoria, who lived in the Swiss Castle Frankenstein and who possessed Victor Frankenstein's secrets. Victoria apparently refused to share those secrets with Ludwig.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#3 (fb) - BTS) - After Lilac rebuilt and reprogrammed the Berserker, she used it to take over Castle Frankenstein. Lilac further experimented on the Children, and many of them died horribly as a result, while others were left in more monstrous, mutated forms.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#3 (fb) - BTS) - Lilac captured and decapitated the Frankenstein monster, leaving his agonized head connected to various tubes and electrodes, with the rest of his body dissected and in vats or on slabs.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#4 (fb) - BTS) - As Ludwig's X-Machine had recorded the Silver Surfer's alien "skin"/metallic coating, he created a monster similar to the original Frankenstein's monster but covered with such a coating: The Silver Monster.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#1 (fb) - BTS) - Rainbow sent I.C.O.N. agent Vermilion to locate Eric Prawn, now a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who had been placed in charge of investigating I.C.O.N.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#1) -  Vermilion located and shot Prawn as he visited the heroes Peregrine and Shamrock, who subsequently subdued Vermilion. Before he died, Prawn told Peregrine to find Frankenstein.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#2 (fb) - BTS) - Rainbow/I.C.O.N. sent Dreadknight to collect Veronica von Frankenstein.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#2 - BTS) - Peregrine and Shamrock met with Veronica von Frankenstein and her friend Ralph Caccone in her tower in Carcassonne, France. Sent by I.C.O.N., Dreadknight attacked them but was defeated by Shamrock and Peregrine.

    Veronica realized that Dreadknight's involvement meant that I.C.O.N. knew about Victoria and that they had likely assaulted Castle Frankenstein.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#3 - BTS) - Peregrine and Shamrock brought Veronica to Castle Frankenstein. After dropping off Veronica, the heroes were confronted by I.C.O.N. agents Lilac and the Berserker as well as a spider-like member of the "Children."

    Ultimately, Veronica located and freed Victoria, who regained the obedience of the mutated Children. When the Berserker saw what had been done to the Frankenstein monster, he turned against Lilac, who backed into and was electrocuted by damaged machinery.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#3) - Rainbow watched remotely, his Silver Monster by his side, confident it could handle the heroes.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#4 (fb)) - Veronica and Victoria reassembled the Frankenstein's monster.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#4 - BTS) - Having obtained the location via Lilac's files, Shamrock, Peregrine, Frankenstein's monster and the Berserker arrived at I.C.O.N.'s headquarters on a Swiss Alpine mountain top, intending to take down the organization and its leader, Rainbow, once and for all.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#4) - The building was largely abandoned, and when the group reached Rainbow's private office, he revealed his identity as Ludwig von Frankenstein and unleashed the Silver Monster against them, instructing it to kill the others but to save the Frankenstein monster's head.

    The Berserker rushed and grabbed the Silver Monster, but it smashed the Berserker away. The Frankenstein monster then attacker the Silver Monster, but the silver skin made him impervious to the Frankenstein monster's blows and the Silver Monster soon overpowered and pummeled his predecessor.

    However, Peregrine's anti-gravity unit allowed him to carry the Silver Monster high into the air and then drop it to the ground, after which -- via Shamrock's guidance -- the Frankenstein's monster and the Berserker held the Silver Monster's face in the snow until it passed out, after which it was kept unconscious in some gas mask.

(unpublished Shamrock and Peregrine story, episode#4 - BTS) - Contacted by Peregrine, S.H.I.E.L.D. sent a squad from Geneva to clean up I.C.O.N. and imprison Ludwig and the Silver Monster.

Comments: Created by RJM Lofficier & Leo Duranona

    Jean-Marc Lofficier was kind enough to send me the unpublished plot intended for a Marvel Comics Presents story. You can read it HERE.
The identity of Rainbow from Lofficier's story was included in the Frankenstein Monster profile in OHotMU Horror 2005 (and in the A-Z hardcover), and the encounter was also referenced in le Peregrine's profile in All-New OHotMU Update#3 and Shamrock's profiles.
--Markus Raymond
    Since it is unpublished, I've listed most of the history/etc. in italics.

    As noted in the above-mentioned plot, JML said:

    This 4-part SHAMROCK-PEREGRINE was commissioned by Terry Kavanaugh for Marvel Comics Presents -- around the start of the series in the late 1980s -- and it was written & paid for. Then Kavanaugh got told that MCP should feature more commercial characters like, say, Wolverine, so exit Shamrock & Peregrine.
    So far it would be of zero interest if not for the fact that this story (a) made sense of all the von Frankensteins floating around in Marvel and (b) it also wrapped up the unfinished I.C.O..N. storyline from the FRANKENSTEIN comic.
    Also, though unpublished, a fair amount of the background material got reused verbatim in DR STRANGE III #37 ("FRANKENSURFER" story).   
    There was artwork, 2 or 3 trial pages by by Leo Duranona, but I don't think I kept these, plus four pages (at least AFAIK) by another artist.
--Jean-Marc Lofficier

    This profile was completed 09/26/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Silver Monster should be distinguished from:

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Appearances:
Unpublished Shamrock & Peregrine story for Marvel Comics Presents by RJM Lofficier & Leo Duranona

First posted: 09/26/2026
Last updated: 09/26/2025

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

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