JONAS MARLIN

Real Name: Jonas Marlin

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Owner of Marlinworld

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Joe Fixit, Shandu, his employees and animals

Enemies: Atlanteans

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Marlinworld in California, San Diego

First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents I#26/4 (late August, 1989)

Powers/Abilities: None. He knew how to lead a sea park, but he had a gambling problem that kept him poor.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#26/4 (fb) - BTS) - One day Jonas Marlin lost 100,000 dollars in Michael Berengetti's casino in Las Vegas and couldn't even pay the debt. Marlin returned to his sea park and tried to collect the money to pay Berengetti.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#26/4) - Joe Fixit visited Jonas Marlin at Marlinworld to collect the money, but Marlin only had 50,000 dollars. He offered Fixit a quarter or half interest in Marlinworld for Berengetti, but Fixit didn't know why the park should be of interest for Berengetti. Marlin showed Fixit around in the park, but the sharks were more afraid of Fixit than he was of them and the many guests didn't impress Fixit either. Marlin showed Fixit his main attraction Shandu the killer whale, but Fixit was bored by the show until the whale attacked his trainer. Marlin told him that this wasn't part of the show. Hulk saved some kids from Shandu and Marlin wanted the killer whale to be gone because nobody would visit his park anymore if there was a berserk whale in it. He offered Fixit a lot of money and Fixit left with the whale and told Marlin to get the money together.

Comments: Created by Peter David, Jeff Purves & Mike DeCarlo

This story took place shortly before the Atlantis Attacks storyline.

Profile by Markus Raymond

CLARIFICATIONS:
Jonas Marlin has no known connection to:

• Jonas, American Eagle foe @ Marvel Comics Presents#130/2
• Jonas Turnip, of Earth-Amalgam @ Lobo the Duck#1
• or to anyone else with a similar name

Shandu the killer whale has no known connection to:

• Keiko, the killer whale from the Free Willy movies
• Orka, the Atlantean mutate @ Sub-Mariner I#23
• anyone else with that name

Shandu

Shandu was Marlinworld's main attraction. The children loved to sit near the whale's splash area and everybody loved the show. The day Joe Fixit visited the park Shandu's show went awry when the whale suddenly killed his trainer. Shandu then jumped out of his pool and Fixit saved some children from the whale before knocking him out by whacking him against the pool. By Marlin's request Fixit took the whale with him and dropped it right onto the Atlantean vessel that made Shandu go berserk through a machine.

--Marvel Comics Presents I#26/4

images:
Marvel Comics Presents I#26, p25, pan1 (main)
Marvel Comics Presents I#26, p26, pan5 (head shot)
Marvel Comics Presents I#26, p31, pan1 (Shandu)

Appearances:
Marvel Comics Presents I#26 (August, 1989) - Peter David (writer), Jeff Purves (pencils), Mike deCarlo (inks), Michael Rockwitz (assistant editor), Terry Kavanagh (editor)

Last updated: 03/15/05