irradiated men (Winterguard (Darkstar, Red Guardian (Krassno Granitsky), Vanguard + others), Avengers(Captain America, Quicksilver, others))
- mutated by Presence into communal mind, convert others into same form on contact, Thor + Firebird were immune, all cured by Starlight after Presence defeated by thor
    --Avengers III#42 (42(ff1) 42-44

IRRUK - Hyborian Era, Shemite, King of Yamman, briefly dominated by Katuman until drove him off with aid of Conan
    (app-kat)--Conan the Barbarian I#247 (248

IRTH dim (Ghath, Ibic, Kamendae, Khaos, Kromm, Longstrider, Quarto) - alternate earth dim
    "Earth-9339"--Excalibur Annual#1

IRUDEF - ancient Egypt, hired Horem to steal powerful gauntlets from Amentah's tomb
   (app-horem)--Black Axe#4

IRVINE, Dean - Empire State University
    --Emma Frost#13 (15

IRVING, Det. Sgt. - British cop, assistant to Di Craze
    --Nocturne#1 (2,3

IRVING, Mr. - Pilsburg, IA, bartender
    --Captain America V#15

IRVING ?? - Morlock
    diminutive stature
    --Generation M#4

IRWIN, CHARLES P. - television reporter for Action News Channel 7, covered the US Senate investigation of the Avengers
    (app)--Avengers I#190

ISAAC (Integral Synaptic Anti-Anionic Computer) - intelligent computer that regulates and fills almost the entire interior of the moon Titan, controls its artificial environment and all mechanical operators, creates robotic forms to act for him, originally created by Mentor, reprogrammed by Thanos, attempted to carry out Thanos’s plans to destroy all life on Titan, created Stellarax + Lord Gaea + Elysius + Chaos, later reprogrammed to serve Eternals of Titan, unwittingly convinced Vision to attempt to take control of earth’s computers
    -ISAAC-PRIME*, "ZACK" (app)--Iron Man I#55 (55(fb), 55, [Captain Marvel I#58(fb)], 27, 32,33, 58-62, Marvel Spotlight II#1,2, 3, Silver Surfer An6 (fb3), Avengers I#230, 238, [Fantastic Four I#263, Av239, 241,242/Captain America I#292, F4#265(fb) Spectacular Spider-Man II#90], Av243, [Incredible Hulk II#300, Av244,245, An13, Av246-248, West Coast Avengers I#1, Iron Man Annual#7], Av249, [Thor I#351-353, WCA#4, Code of Honor#4, Captain America I#299,301, Av250, IM#190, Av251,252, Uncanny X-Men#191], 253, [254], Solo Avengers#16/2, 18/2, 20/2?, Infinity Gauntlet#1,2, Silver Surfer III#52, Quasar#59, Cosmic Powers#4, Ka-Zar V#10, [Warlock II#1], Thunderbolts#46,47, She-Hulk II#7, FF546, 547

ISAAC ?? - Bartovian Liberation Front
    (app-blf)--Solo Avengers#7

ISAAC-PRIME - see ISAAC (app)--Captain Marvel I#58?

ISAACS, Prof. ANGELIQUE - 2099, Ares Colony, mother of Clarion, ally of X-Nation
    --2099: World of Tomorrow#2 (3-7

ISAACS, HERBERT - see DOORMAN (app)--Plasmer (muk)#3

ISAACS, Dr. AARON - creator of Machine Teen
    Aaronson, Dr. Isaac*--Machine Teen#1 ([3(fb)]/1(fb), [4(fb)], 1-5, Incredible Hulk III#83-85 (HoM)

ISAACS, JON? of "Earth-58163"- robot/Machine Teen
    --Incredible Hulk III#84

ISAMBARD - facteroid where Lure worked
    --Gun Runner#4

ISBISA (Simon Meke) - former enemy of All-Winner's Squad, set out to become dictator of the world by stealing atomic weaponry, name is an acronym for ages of man (ice, stone, bronze, iron, steel?, atomic), former assistant to director at Museum of Natural History, set out to become dictator of the world by stealing atomic weaponry, hired several criminals to commit crimes based on the ages of man in exchange for 25% of the profit, in 1949 sabotaged a nuclear reactor in effort to kill Miss America and Whizzer, caused their son to be born a mutant, returned in recent times and attempted to siphon power and kill Nuklo/Robert Frank Jr in order to avenge self against Whizzer, defeated by him, became professor at Columbia University, battled She-Hulk
    Criminal mastermind, expert in chemistry and radioactivity, formerly used suit that released knockout gas and second suit that allowed him to drain and manipulate radiation
    -Dr. Sanderson, Dr. I. S. Bishoff (OH:GA, app)--(g) All-Winners#19; What If? I#4 ([All-Winners#19/7(fb)], 19/7(fb), 19/1-19/7);
    What If? I#4 ([AW#19/7(fb)], 19/7(fb), 19/1-19/7, [Giant-Size Avengers#1(fb)]), [Vision & Scarlet Witch I#2(fb)], [2(fb)], 2, [Sensational She-Hulk#30(fb)], 29,30

ISEN - thrall of Aaron Thorne, ran the Aceldama factory, possibly slain in its destruction
    (app-thorne_aaron)--Blade: Vampire Hunter I#1

ISHANTA - Wakandan, Black Musketeers, elderly man, financer
    (app-bm)--Black Panther I#8, (named) 9 (10

ISHBAK - see CONAN.
    alias used in Asgalun, posing as a Zuagir
    --Hawks over Shem; Savage Sword of Conan#36?

ISHIGURU, - restaurant owner
    --Wolverine III#42

ISHIHARA, SHIROW - Japanese mutant boy, brother of Zoe, given to custody of scientists when powers surfaced, transferred to Pig, rescued by Zoe + Gambit.
    secretes gas from enlarged pore blisters that numbs the mind making victim subservient
    --Gambit III#4 (7(fb), 4-7

ISHIHARA, ZOE - Japanese woman, sister of Shirow, banished from Tokyo Thieves' Guild when attempted to rescue Shirow from scientists holding him, rescued Shirow from the Pig, sought sanctuary with New Orleans Thieves' guild.
    beautiful + intelligent + deadly
    --Gambit III#4(7(fb),4-7

ISHIKAWA, Ms. - lawyer, tried to force Xavier Institute to surrender all mutant children
    --Uncanny X-Men#421, (named) 422

ISHIMA, DAVID - former boyfriend of Spider-Woman (Drew), unable to accept her as Spider-Woman
    --Spider-Woman I#37 ( 38,39 41,44-46 50,Uncanny X-Men#206

ISHITI of the Hyborian era - snake goddess/demon
    (app)--Conan the Barbarian I#134

ISHIYAMA, SABURO - 16th century Japanese sensei, ran Sword School, trained Kagenobu Yoshioka and Daisuke Sasaki, died in 1587
    --Elektra: The Hand#1 (1(fb)-[2(fb, dies)]

ISHIYAMA SWORD SCHOOL (Daisuke Sasaki, Kagenobu Yoshioka) - after Ishiyama's death it became the center for the forming of the Hand
    --Elektra: The Hand#1 (1(fb)-5(fb) 

ISHTAR - see INANNA.
    Mesopotamian goddess, worshipped by several groups in the Hyborian era
    (app-in)--Conan?

ISHTAR - see VITRIOL
    --Iron Man III#79, 80

ISHTORETH - entity invoked by Artabazus + Andros, people of past time
    --[Fantastic Four Unlimited#12]

ISIS - Heliopolis goddess of fertility, mother of Horus, wife of Osiris, sister of Nephthys and Seth.
    limited ability to raise the dead, manipulate elemental forces
    (D#5)--Thor I#240 (241, Marvel Two-In-One#23, [Thor I#398], 398, [400]

ISIS - transgender prostitute
    --[Generation M#2]

ISIS of Guildern - co-conspirator with Mendes in assassination of the former king, later slain by Mendes for questioning him
    *D* (app-guildern)--Wild Angels

ISKELIOR - human sorceress, allegedly sent to extradimensional realm centuries ago by her father, used her trivet to bring others to her realm, where they allegedly stayed to live out their lives in peace, summoned and became host to Kyllian
    (app)--[Dr. Strange III#57], 58 ([59(fb)], 58-59

ISKUR - see BAAL. Hittite name.
    (app-baal)--[Wolverine II#11], 12

ISLA DEMONAS - contained 15000 year old ruins of mutant civilization
    --Uncanny X-Men#422

ISLAND, TITUS ALEXANDER of Earth-7190 - apparently mutated by the Omegas with the goal of having him become one of their warriors against the extraterrestrial nanobots
    (app)--Omega: The Unknown#1

island of the fire people of Earth-93060 - see ZENALLA. created by Atalon
    (app-atalon)--Ultraforce (uv)#3 (4-6

ISLAND of MADNESS - see ISLAND of TERROR (app-scarabeus)—Hulk Comic (UK)#15

ISLAND of TERROR (Dr. and Tisha Scarabeus +agents, Anti-Men)
    - Pacific island base of Dr. Scarabeus
    (app-scarabeus)—Hulk Comic (UK)#15 (16-20)

ISLE of the EXILES - Sargasso sea
    (app-ex)--Captain America I#102

ISLE of NA'AT of the Hyborian era - see NA'AT
    (app-vacharn)--"Necromancy in Na'at" by Clark Ashton Smith (1935); (adapted to Marvel Comics) Conan the Savage#10 (May, 1996)

ISLE of SILENCE - region of Asgard, home of the Silent Ones, place of exile for those who would harm Asgard, used as base by Loki during "Acts of Vengeance"
   (app) --Avengers I#1 (Avengers I#300, Punisher War Journal I#12-13, Avengers Annual I#19/3, Avengers West Coast#53-54, Spectacular Spider-Man II#158, Thor I#411-412, Punisher II#28-29, Avengers I#311-313, Captain America I#365, Web of Spider-Man#61, Avengers West Coast#55 

ISLES DERNIERES - group of islands, the Red Skull banished Captain America and the Exiles to one of these
    --Captain America I#117

ISLEY, - former bodyguard of Sunset Bain, killed by Taskmaster
    *D*--Taskmaster#1(2,3,4d)

ISMALDA - Asgardian, torturer used by Karnilla
    --Thor I#451/2

ISO-36 - substance that saved May Parker from Spider-Man's blood
    --Amazing Spider-Man I#32

ISOLATIONIST (Joseph Huber*) - mutant power, duplicated powers of anyone near him, driven mad, relocated to the Arctic, regained sanity on M-Day, plotted extermination of all remaining mutants, created Nicole
    multiple powers, influence thoughts, apparently unable to use powers directly against other mutants
    UBER*--X-Factor III#16 (24 (fb), 16, 21-24

ISOTOPE A - created by High Evolutionary using information from Phaeder, used to create the first New Man, Dempsey, a Dalmatian evolved into humanoid form, short half-life
    --[Thor I#135], Quicksilver#9 (named)

ISOTOPE B - created by High Evolutionary and used to create Bova and original Knights of Wundagore
    --Quicksilver#9 (named)

ISOTOPE C - created by High Evolutionary, designed to endow knights with greater strengths, generated madness as well, used to create Man-Beast
    -- Quicksilver#9 (named)

ISOTOPE D - developed by High Evolutionary, transformed him into god-like being that created Counter-Earth
    --Quicksilver#9 (named)

ISOTOPE E - developed by High Evolutionary, mutagenic agent, able to cause dramatic mutation in those exposed to it
    --Quicksilver#1 (Ka-Zar V#12-14, Quicksilver#8,9

ISOTOPE GENOME ACCELERATOR - radiation device, formerly owned by General Techtronics and later GARID, irradiated the spider that bit Peter Parker, used by Monica Staphos in attempts to cure Necrotizing Fascitis, which resulted in Dryrot and Tendril, used by Parker and Dr. Eric Schwinner to cure Dryrot, energies exposed to Parker, temporarily neutralizing his powers
    (app-schwinner)--Amazing Fantasy I#15 ([Spider-Man: The Final Adventure#2(fb)], 2-4

ISPIRANA of the Hyborian era - Zamboulan warrior woman and thief, sought Eye of Erlik, occasional ally of Conan, fell in love with Acheron + impregnated by him, allowing Devourer of Souls to be reborn
    The Sword Stealer--Conan and the Sorcerer; Savage Sword of Conan#53 ([54], 55, 56-58
    Conan the Barbarian I#264,265 270-272 275, SSoC#218/2 Conan: Flame+Fiend#1-3

ISRAEL of Earth-93060 ( ) - agent of Solitaire, owns bookstore
    --Solitaire (uv)#3 (4-6, 8, 10

ISRAELIS for ANARCHY (Windstorm) - anti-government terrorist group
    --Marvel Super-Heroes III#6/4

ISSUS of the Hyborian era - Elder God
    (app)--Savage Sword of Conan#216

ISULDE - Asgardian
    --Marvel Fanfare I#36

ISUM - Mesopotamian god of travelers and messengers (not seen in MU)

IT (Roger Kirk) - died @ 1929, became swamp creature created from reanimated human corpse/vegetation which accumulated around his skeleton, murdered those around it until it fell into a stream, which washed the skeleton clean
    The Thing That Couldn’t Die* (app)--It, by Theodore Sturgeon; adapted in Supernatural Thrillers#1

IT - see THING CALLED IT (app)--Strange Tales I#82

I.T. - operation of Roxxon, run by Albert DeVoor, alias used in an effort to ignite nuclear war between Earth-616 + Earth A + Fifth Dimension in order to generate power for Polemachus.
    --Fantastic Four I#160 (162(fb),160-163

IT of Earth-58163 (Ben Grimm) - Fearsome Foursome
    (Secrets of the House of M)--

IT the LIVING COLOSSUS (Robert "Bob" O'Bryan) - SHIELD's Howling Commandos monster force, immense stone statue constructed by Boris Petrovski to protest oppressive nature of Soviet government, animated initially by Kigors, rampaged briefly in Moscow after being attacked by military, abandoned by Kigor after rescue party arrived, later controlled by Bob O'Bryan, reduced from 100' to 30' by Dr. Vault, used in battle against invaders from Stonus V, eventually destroyed by Hulk, rebuilt as robot, reformed by O’Bryan under control of Lotus Newmark
    tremendous strength, fly, command intelligence was forced back into original body by nerve gas
    (I#13,D#18,M, Marvel Monsters)--Tales of Suspense I#14 (20, Astonishing Tales#21-24, Incredible Hulk#244, Avengers Two: Wonder Man/Beast#2,3, [Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#1], 2, [3-6]

IT, The SILENT ONE-robot of unknown origin, activated on ocean floor and battled namor,destroyed after a collision against a submarine
    (app)--Tales to Astonish I#92 (93

ITAR - Inhumans
    --Marvel Graphic Novel: Inhumans

ITCH ( ) - former ally of Man-Bull
    --Daredevil I#78 (79, 95-96

ITHACONS of Earth-Sword in the Star (Wayfinder and his father) - All except Wayfinder slaughtered by Haamin
    (app-earthsits)--Marvel Preview#4/2

I'TJAM - Sakaar, rebel city, ruins identified in Incredible Hulk III#94

ITO, MARSHAL - 
    --Sub-Mariner Comics#12

ITOBU, Dr. JOSHUA - Wakandan ruling family, Black Musketeer, cousin of T'Challa, later allied with Klaw in order to force Wakanda to become an international power, deafened by Klaw when rebelled against him
    (app, net-wak)--Black Panther I#7 (8-12, Cable II#54

IT's ALL YOUR FAULT - self-help text by A.E. "Pop" Syke
    --Howard the Duck daily comic strip 6/19/77

IT's JUST SO SPRITE - TV show based on the Eternal Sprite
    --Eternals III#1 (2-4

ITSU - Japanese woman, wife of Logan, pregnant with his child when slain by Winter Soldiers in order to draw out Logan
    *D*--[Wolverine III#39], (named) #40 (40 (fb, dies)

ITT - series of powerful+virtually indestructible synthetic entities controlled by skrull empress,hatched under secret conditions,one was sent to earth where de’lil’a sought to obtain it. instead it imprinted on a pair of the mole man’s mutates. three arms
    Inorganic TechnoTroids—[Fantastic Four I#247, 248(mentioned)], 249

ITZAMNA - Mayan sky god
    (app)--Thor I#300, Infinity Gauntlet#2 (Thor#300,[301] [Thor Annual#10], Infinity Gauntlet#2, Incredible Hercules#116-117

IU-104/E 2020 - Baintronics, eliminator class, cleared out obsolete material from storage
    (app-bain2020)--Machine Man II#1 (2-4)

IURIALE - extradimensional demon, seduced Dr. Darryl Berenson to open a portal to Earth, driven off by Dr. Strange, though Benson then committed suicide
    Seduces and then consumes life force of mortals to survive,
    (app)--Dr. Strange II#76 ([76(fb)], 76

IVA - goddess worshipped by the Pangean Aerians; noted for her beauty upon her ascension.
    --[Ka-Zar the Savage#29]

IVALDI - Dwarves of Nidavellir
    --Journey into Mystery I#402/2

IVAN ?? - Russian hunchback of enormous strength, former servant of Vincent Frankenstein, shot and seemingly killed by him @ 100 years ago, returned in recent times as a servant of Dr. Walston Kraft, neck broken by Frankenstein monster
    *D* (app)--Frankenstein Monster#10 (11"d", Spider-Man Unlimited#21d)

IVAN ?? - mutant, twin brother of Elena, initially allied with Grigory Rasputin @ 1915, betrayed him to his enemies; his murder was faked by Elena, and he visited her on her death bed approximately two decades ago
    --X-Men: Colossus: Bloodline#1 (3(fb), 4(fb), 5(fbs)

IVAN ?? -
    --Marvel Mystery Comics#53

IVAN ?? - aspect of Eternity, slow-witted child, took refuge in Korinsk, Russia, cared for by Anya & Rodian, created psychokinetic snow giants to oppose Hulk & Nighthawk
    (app-aspectsofeternity)--Defenders I#92

IVAN ?? - see TSIBLIYEV, IVAN--Generation X: Crossroads

IVAN ?? - Russian mobster, agent of Moscow Eddie Yarkov, killed by the Punisher
    *D* (app-clansman) --Marvel Graphic Novel: Punisher: Blood on the Moors

IVAN the TERRIBLE (Ivan Pushkin) - Russian crimelord
    (app) --Maverick II#1 (2,3, 8,9, 11(fb), 10-12

IVAN PETROVITCH - see PETROVITCH, IVAN--Amazing Adventures II#1

IVANA, LENA - wears amulet to turn into bird, former friend of Morbius
    --Morbius#25 (26-32

IVANOFF, IVAN - communist engineer, manipulated Namor the Sub-Mariner into helping dig tunnel between Siberia and Alaska
    --Sub-Mariner Comics#40 (June, 1955)

IVANOV, VALERY - Russian editor, killed after published material speaking out against the military
    *D*--[X-Men: Colossus: Bloodline#1]

IVANOVA, ELENA - daughter of Epsilon Red, mother killed by Sabretooth while pregnant, born by c-section, ally of Maverick, rendered comatose after severely injured in attempt to gain vengeance on Sabretooth
    psi powers
    --Wolverine II#67 ([68(fb)],67,68, Maverick I#1, Maverick II#1-6,8,12

"IVANOVICH," RAISA - daughter of Sergei, circa 1958, taken away from father by Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) to prevent her from interfering with his assassination by Winter Soldier (James Barnes)
    --Captain America and Bucky#624 (2012)

IVANOVICH, SERGEI - father of Raisa, assassinated by Winter Soldier (James Barnes) in 1958
    *D*--Captain America and Bucky#624 (2012)

IVANOVICH - Vorozheikan, Prosperity Party, opposed Druig, forced to kill self by him
    --Eternals III#5

IVAR, JOSEF - vampire
    --Journey into Unknown Worlds#22

IVAR, YLLA - vampire
    --Journey into Unknown Worlds#22

IVICH - Gladiators.
    female, green skin
    (app)--Beauty and the Beast# 2 (3-4 New Mutants I#29-31

IVOR the SCULPTOR (    ) - used chemical rays against others, supposedly served "Angel of Death"; battled Captain America (William Nasland) and Bucky (Fred Davis)
    --Captain America Comics#53 (February, 1946)

IVORY ( ) - SHIELD II super-agents (not traitor), Wakandan female, body saturated with Vibranium, felt shunned by own nation, joined recruitment drive by roxxon to hijack helicarrier,realized mistake,turned against former employer and saved lives of fury+dugan, sponsored into super-agent program by fury, killed by other traitorous super-agents. psionic powers
    *D*--Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD II#33 (33(fb), 34,35, [38], 39-44d)

IVORY ( ) - alternate earth, sidekick of Mr. Spector
    (app-ms)--Moon Knight III#42

IVORY DOME - Hyborian era, Kuthchemes, former home of Thugra Khotan and Zug
    (app-zug)--Black Colossus; Savage Sword of Conan#2 (Conan the Barbarian I#247(fb), SSoC#2, Conan#250

IVORY GODDESS of the Hyborian era - see NEBETHET--The Ivory Goddess; Savage Sword of Conan#60

IVORY IDOL of IKONN - magic item, empowered Bedlam
    (app-bedlam)--Thor II#17 (17(fb2)

IVY, MIKE - Guardsman, Vault guard--Avengers Spotlight#26

IXAR - Sirian, created Ultroids, battled Black Widow and Avengers
    (1960s, app)--Avengers I#36 (37

IXCHEL - Mayan goddess
    --[Fantastic Four I#118?]

IXION - prisoner of Tartarus; father of Centaurius by Nephele, ancestor of Centaurs of Earth, ruled parts of Thessaly in the late 14th century BC, demanded to sleep with Hera after learning that Zeus had fathered Peirithous by his wife Dia; sent to Tartarus after his death, where he was bound to a flailing wheel for all eternity
    (app-tartarus)--Thor Annual#19

"IYA" - Deviant female, mother of Omode with Ghaur, fled Lemuria to save him, mistaken for extraterrestrial and captured by Commission during the events of Maximum Security, saved by T’Challa
    <named by Bob Almond, Yoruba for mother>--Black Panther III#26 ([27], 28, 29

IZAK of "reality-8116" - Dreadstar and Company, mutated by the Instrumentality, former bounty hunter & mercenary
    six-armed warrior
    (app)--Dreadstar I#43 ([57/2 (fb)], 57/2-59/2, 61/2, [49 (fb)], 43, [49 (fb)], 49, [50 (fb)], 50, [52 (fb)], 52-55, [55]/[56 (fb)], 56-64, the Gift, Dreadstar II#3 (fb), [4 (fb)]

IZAN (    ) - led gang of murderers using suicide pills, battled Human Torch and Toro
    --Marvel Mystery Comics#28 (February, 1942)

IZAN( ) - Nazi agent plotted to murder various American VIP’s and replace them with Nazi lookalikes.
    Skilled fighter and had a keen scientific mind.
    --Captain America Comics#23/1 (February 1943) “Mystery of 100 Corpses”

IZANAGI - Japanese god of the sun + moon + night + tempest + seas, father of gods
    (app)--Thor I#300 ([301 An10], Marvel Universe: The End#2, [5,6], Incredible Hulk#116-117
    alternate picture in Marvel Universe: The End#2

IZANAMI - see GAEA?
    Japanese primordial Earth goddess, former wife of Izanagi, apparently an alias of Gaea
    --[Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update#1]

IZANAMI - Hand, immense woman warrior, absorbed life force of other hand members, originally killed by daredevil, resurrected in body of Naomi Chu, exorcised by Tombstone
    *D*--Daredevil I#293, 294 (295,296,9; 307 309(ex)

IZE - lover of Rikki Eco, captured and accidentally killed by Diana & mother
    *D* (app-sophia+strange)--Epic Anthology#1/3

IZZIFIZZ - Silver Legion, Zziazz, Congregation of Finality
    *D*--Silver Surfer III#115 (116-119,[120,123]

IZZO, Det. - NYPD, investigated the Ghoul's murders
    --Generation M#2 (4

IZZY - Blood Brothers of Central City, brother of Nemo, killed by the Road Warriors
    *D* (app-blood)--X-51#10 (10d)

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