MARJORIE BRINK

Real Name: Marjorie Brink

Identity/Class: Human mutant

Occupation: Librarian

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Dr. Strange (Stephen Strange), Marjorie Brink (Earth-9010 version)

Enemies: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: A library somewhere in the US

First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents#61/4 (October, 1990)

Powers/Abilities: She possessed a completely self-correcting body. She had no need to eat or drink. Her injuries healed very quickly and she was immune to any kind of poison, radiation or disease. She didn't age and was therefore immortal. Limits to her self-healing power were never determined.

History:
(Marvel Comics Presents#61/4 (fb) - BTS) - Many years ago Marjorie had a brief relationship with Stephen Strange. Years later after Stephen was gone from her life she began to eat a lot, but she never gained weight although she really tried to. She also didn't get stronger when she exercised and all her injuries healed amazingly quickly. Marjorie realized that she had a completely self-correcting body and therefore she was immortal. She tested her immortality further by taking poison or by starving herself and it didn't kill her. She never had the courage to shoot herself or to jump from a building, but she wouldn't have done the other things if she had thought that they would kill her. She accepted her fate and became a librarian because there she had the chance to read all the books she ever wanted to read.

(Marvel Comics Presents#61/4) - One day Stephen Strange searched for a special book in a library. He asked the librarian if they had it and realized that the librarian was his former girlfriend Marjorie Brink who hadn't aged a day since he last saw her. She was also surprised to see Stephen and invited him to her place. Stephen asked her why she was dying her hair gray and she began to tell him her story. Afterwards she told Strange that she had heard that he had become a mystic and hoped that he could explain her fate to her. Stephen changed into Dr. Strange and transformed a soap bubble into a solid crystal ball. He told Marjorie to touch it together with him so he could show her the future, but for an unexplained reason they were transported to the future. They were still on Earth, but Marjorie saw the planet Jupiter taking up half of the sky. Soldiers in armor landed near them with their leader and Dr. Strange wanted to fight them off, but Marjorie stopped him when she heard the leaders' voice because it was her own voice. She listened to her future counterpart telling the story of this Earth and watched her fight off demonic beings together with Dr. Strange. She saw how heroic she was in the future and how she led mankind to their final battle. Marjorie returned with Dr. Strange to the present and asked Stephen if the things they saw were real. He told her that this was a taste of what might be in the future. Marjorie had new faith in her life and was ready to live for centuries if there was the chance that she was really needed in the future.

Comments: Created by Peter Gillis, Chris Tsuda & Mike DeCarlo.

She was an immortal being! Nothing special in the Marvel Universe with people like the Eternals, countless demons, gods or humans like Forever Man running around, but I really dig that alternate timeline with the possessed sun. I wonder which demonic deity took possession of the sun. Could Apalla have gone mad? Or did an Elder God like Chthon merge his spirit with the sun? It needed to be somebody with a good connection to these demons. Chthon could be a good guess, but there are also some sun deities around that could as well have gone bad and lets not forget about death gods, devils or evil rulers from other dimensions. It just had to be somebody who could merge his spiritual essence with the sun. It shouldn't be that hard to find somebody in the Marvel Universe to do this.

You could be half-right about it being an insane counterpart of Earth-616's Apalla. But, that raises the question: how was she driven insane? The most probable answer in my mind is...SHE GOT POSSESSED BY DORMAMMU!
 
  Think about it. The Faltine, as sentient energy beings, are always looking for more energy to help them reproduce. Yet, Dormammu (a renegade Faltine) seeks energy to make the corporeal body he was born with immortal! Hence, his constant attempts to merge the Dark Dimension with Earth-616's universe. All those stars!
 
  So, maybe, in the universe of Earth-9010, he decided to stop being so grandiose in his ambitions. Instead, he limited his takeover to Sol, itself. Ultimately, he might have been exorcised by the Dr. Strange of Earth-9010; perhaps, even at the cost of the latter's own life.*
 
  But, by then, the damage was done. Apalla had been driven hopelessly mad.
--Carycomic

Profile by Markus Raymond

CLARIFICATIONS:
Marjorie Brink (both versions) has no known connection to:

Demon Sun has no known connection to:

K'Kylthri have no known connection to:

Last of Mankind have no known connetion to:

EARTH-9010

Marjorie Brink

Real Name: Marjorie Brink

Identity/Class: Human mutant; magic user

Occupation: Mankind's leader

Group Membership: Last of Mankind

Affiliations: Dr. Strange (Stephen Strange, Earth-616), Last of Mankind, Marjorie Brink (Earth-616 version)

Enemies: Demon Sun, K'Kylthri

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Earth in the orbit of Jupiter

First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents#61/4 (October, 1990)

Powers/Abilities: She possessed the same powers as her present Earth-616 counterpart, but over the centuries she also learned to use powerful magical spells.
In addition to her powers she also became an important leader for humanity with all the knowledge she had gathered over the centuries.

History:
(Marvel Comics Presents#61/4 (fb) ) - After she met Dr. Strange in the past Marjorie knew that he would come to the future one day to help her. She lived on for many centuries and watched mankind go to the stars and return from there. She saw the sun go mad and Earth being moved to orbit Jupiter to flee from the sun. She helped show mankind how to fight back and helped them build a large fleet for a final attack against the possessed sun.

(Marvel Comics Presents#61/4) - Marjorie and her soldiers surrounded Dr. Strange and her former self. Marjorie told Strange that they were not in danger and took off her hood. She told them the story of herself and that time and that they were ready to launch the final attack. Strange saved Marjorie from an attacking K'Kylthri, but more K'Kylthri followed. Strange and Marjorie fought them off with magic together with the Last of Mankind. Marjorie then gave the final order to start the attack. She was sure that they would win and before Stephen and her former self returned to the present she gave Strange her medallion and asked him to take care of his time's Marjorie.

 

Demon Sun

Earth's sun was taken over by a power none had ever seen before shortly after mankind had returned to Earth. The sun went mad and humanity transported Earth to Jupiter's orbit while the Demon Sun consumed the inner planets. The sun didn't stop there and with a demonic army called the K'Kylthri the Demon Sun continued its way towards Earth and the destruction of humanity. It sent the K'Kylthri out to kill Marjorie Brink because she reminded mankind how to fight back, but the demons were stopped and mankind started their final attack against the Demon Sun.

--Marvel Comics Presents#61/4

 

K'Kylthri

They were the demonic army of the Demon Sun. Their touch meant annihilation because they were pure anti-life. Again and again the K'Kylthri attacked in the Demon Sun's name. They failed to kill Marjorie Brink when Dr. Strange, the Last of Mankind, and Marjorie herself stopped their attack.

--Marvel Comics Presents#61/4

 

 

 

 

 

Last of Mankind

They were the last humans on Earth. They wore protective armors to shield against radiation and the K'Kylthri's touch. They were capable of using different kinds of laser weapons and spaceships. Under Marjorie Brink's guide they learned to fight back again and built a fleet of ships to stop the sun. Some of them protected Marjorie from attacking K'Kylthri until she gave the order for the assault. The fleet started and Marjorie was sure that they would win this battle.

--Marvel Comics Presents#61/4

 

 

 

 

 

images:
Marvel Comics Presents#61, p28, pan4 (Marjorie Brink present)
  p26, pan7 (head shot)
  p29, pan5 (Marjorie of Earth-9010)
  p30, pan3 (Demon Sun)
  p31, pan2 (K'Kylthri)
  p31, pan3 (Last of Mankind)

Last updated: 05/08/05

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