HEINRICH VERMER
Real Name: Heinrich Vermer
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation: Chemical engineer
Group Membership: None;
formerly SHIELD
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Venom (Eddie Brock)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: A building in New York City
First Appearance: Venom: Sinner Takes All#5/2
(December, 1995)
Powers/Abilities: After absorbing some of
the Venom symbiote’s life force,
Heinrich Vermer
possessed superhuman strength and endurance, and a healing factor that
allowed
him to survive grievous injuries. He carried a sonic prod and a sonic
pistol.
History: (Venom: Sinner Takes All#5/2
(fb) ) –
SHIELD chemical engineer
Heinrich Vermer was assigned to create a
special
nerve gas to take down the villainous Venom.
After he was accidentally exposed to the gas, Vermer
learned he was dying. Leaving SHIELD, he planned to steal the symbiote’s lifeforce
and make
himself immortal.
(Venom: Sinner Takes
All#5/2 (fb) )
– Luring Venom into his
building with gunshots, Vermer hit Venom
from behind
with a sonic prod, then hooked him into his
life-draining machinery.
(Venom: Sinner Takes
All#5/2) –
Venom escaped from the machinery and attacked Vermer,
knocking him out a window onto a spiked wrought-iron fence below. Venom unmasked him, then
walked away, assuming Vermer was dead. With a healing factor thanks to the small bit
of symbiote lifeforce
he
drained, he pulled himself off the fence and blasted Venom with a sonic
pistol.
Venom fell unconscious into the Hudson; Vermer
pulled
him out, then brought him back to his
building, where
he hooked him back into his machines. After he explained his condition
to
Brock, the machine began drawing the entire symbiote
into Vermer’s body.
At first ecstatic, Vermer’s
mind was soon
filled with horrific images; overloaded with sensory input, he
apparently
exploded. As the symbiote returned to
Brock, he left,
unaware that Vermer still lived…
Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman,
Gabriel Gecko, and Mark McKenna.
Vermer was unnamed in his first (and only) appearance; he was named in the Anti-Venom profile in All-New OHotMU HC volume 14.
Profile by Minor
Irritant.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Heinrich Vermer should be distinguished from:
- Vermin (Edward Whelan), mutated rat-man @ Captain America I#272
- Verminus Rex,
demonic rat-man @ Ghost Rider III#89
- Vermiphage, demonic
enemy of Gabriel Rosetti @ Hellstorm#9
- Vermis, Otto, Hydra
leader @ Marvel Spotlight I#32
- or any other Heinrichs
or Vermers
images: (without ads)
Venom: Sinner Takes
All#5/2, p24, pan2
(main image)
Venom: Sinner Takes
All#5/2, p32, pan5
(headshot)
Other Appearances:
Venom: Sinner Takes All#5/2 (December, 1995) – Marv Wolfman
(writer), Gabriel Gecko (pencils), Mark McKenna (inker), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Last updated:
03/03/09
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