GOLDIGGER
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Unrevealed, presumably human
mutant or mutate (see comments)
Occupation: Gold thief
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Mister Fantastic (Reed
Richards)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed
First Appearance: Hostess Twinkies ad "A Passion For Gold" from Marvel Premiere I#52 (February, 1980) and other issues in that month
Powers/Abilities: Goldigger
has the power
to make himself intangible.
Goldigger also carries a gun which fired unidentified, missile-like projectiles.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'11")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 158 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (presumably brown - see comments)
Hair: Bald
History:
(Hostess Twinkies ad "A
Passion
For Gold") - Mr. Fantastic
found himself
battling Goldigger. When Goldigger fired upon him, Mr. Fantastic
bounced
the projectiles back at his auric adversary but Goldigger turned
intangible
and let the projectiles pass harmlessly through him. At an impasse,
Richards
gave Goldigger Hostess Twinkies, a treat that the gilded villain gladly
turned
solid to eat. Mr. Fantastic then used his own arm to ensnare Goldigger.
Comments: Created by an unidentified writer (possibly Tony Macchia por Joel Tretin - see comments below) and an unidentified artist (again, see comments below).
Goldigger was mentioned in the Appendix to the Fantastic Four Encyclopedia.
You can get the whole story, and some clever commentary from Seanbaby's The Hostess Page. It might not meet with the Comics Code Authority's approval, so kids, ask your parents before checking that out! --Snood
Goldigger's origin was never explained so
it remains unclear as to how he came about his intangibility powers. It
is presumed he is some sort of mutant or possible mutate. --Proto-Man
Goldigger's eye color was impossible to determine, as the only time he is seen not squinting in anger is the image to the left here and, as you can see, his eyes are drawn just as dots. Since they appear as black dots, I'd lean more towards the color brown if I were backed into a corner and forced to identify his eye color but then, who in their right mind would force someone to do that??! --Proto-Man
Back Issue magazine#130 (September, 2021), published by TwoMorrows Publishing, has a fairly in-depth article about the Hostess ads from all of the big comic publishers at the time and their research confirmed that almost all of the superhero-themed Hostess ads (at both Marvel and DC) were written by either Tony Macchia (especially the earlier ones) or his successor Joel Tretin (for the ads' final years), both of whom worked for the Bates & Co. ad agency that came up with the idea for the ads. As for the artist, well, it's a little difficult to pinpoint exactly but I'm sure someone better qualified at spotting a specific artist's style might be able to determine the artist. The Back Issue article mentions that many of Marvel's Hostess ads were penciled by Sal Buscema (though the Goldigger ad doesn't quite look like his style to me) and Ross Andru, with occasional specific ones done by other artists at the time such as John Romita, Sr., George Tuska, Gene Colan, Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum, Marie Severin and even Frank Miller (who penciled two of them)! --Proto-Man
The digitally colored
images in this profile come from the Savage She-Hulk#1 Facsimile
Edition (2022). --Proto-Man
Main image cleaned up by Ron Fredricks.
Profile by John
Kaminski.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Goldigger has no known connection to:
Appearances:
Hostess ad, "A Passion for Gold!" (February, 1980) - unidentified
writer, artist and editor
First posted: 04/13/2005
Last updated: 01/02/2023
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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