ULTIMATE
PERSUADER
Classification: Extradimensional
technology
Creator: Unrevealed
User/Possessors: Arkon, the Old One (Grand Vizier of Polemachus)
First
Appearance: Avengers I#76 (May,
1970)
Powers/Abilities/Functions: Arkon's Ultimate
Persuader was a device
built to extract information from a victim's brain by using the
device's
headgear to extract every piece of knowledge from the victim's brain.
History:
(Avengers
I#76) - When captured
Earth physicists refused to help, the Polemachus native Old One
suggested to
Arkon that there was but one other way to get the information they
sought.
Knowing that the Old One meant the Ultimate Persuader, Arkon announced
that it
would be used and he soon visited the Polemachan dungeons to retrieve
one nuclear physicist. Hooking the physicist up to the Ultimate
Persuader, Arkon
explained its functions to the other physicists and left the Old One to
extract
the information needed. Some time later, Arkon returned and asked the
Old One
if he was able to extract the information needed to construct a nuclear
device.
The Old One replied that he had and revealed the Atom-Sphere he had
constructed
using the physicist’s knowledge.
Comments: Created by Roy
Thomas, John Buscema and
Tom Palmer.
While
only appearing in Avengers
I#76, it's very possible that the Ultimate Persuader is
behind-the-scenes
somewhere in every appearance of Polemachus, as it was not destroyed...
Profile
by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Arkon's Ultimate Persuader has no known connections to
- Ultimate
Annihilator, disintegrator weapon designed by
AIM @ Strange Tales I#163
- Ultimate Annihilator, device originating from the Nexus
of All Realities @ Fear Itself: Fearsome Four#1
- Ultimate
Machine, aka the Globe of Ultimate
Knowledge, contains all knowledge in the known universe @ Tales to
Astonish I#73
- Ultimate Nullifier, weapon of unknown origin able to
destroy Galactus @ Fantastic Four I#50
- Ultimate
Weapon,
used by Super-Patriot to destroy UN building @ Nick Fury: Agent of
SHIELD I#13
- or any other "Ultimate” or
“Persuader” devices
images: (without ads)
Avengers I#76, p9, pan2 (physicist hooked up to Ultimate Persuader,
main image)
Appearances:
Avengers I#76 (May, 1970) – Roy Thomas (writer), John Buscema (art),
Tom Palmer
(inks), Stan Lee (editor)
Any
Additions/Corrections? please
let me know.
Last
Updated:
02/07/13
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