Who Is Aquarian? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Aquarian is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Wundarr, with over 102 comic issue appearances. Wundarr the Aquarian is a powerful pacifist who was attached to Project Pegasus. He is friends with the Thing among others. More recently, he proved to be the only person ever to be bitten by a Marvel-Zombie and live to tell the tale, purging the disease out of his body.

Who is Aquarian?

Origin On a distant planet called Dakkam , a scientist named Hektu had come to believe that their sun was going nova, thereby threatening to destroy his world. In a last effort to save his family, he and his wife Soja planned to save their infant son named Wundarr from their world's destruction. They placed him aboard a ship that would maintain his life support as long as necessary, and launched him into outer space. Hektu and Soja later made flight and were captured and executed by the Internal Security Force to prevent them from alarming the populace. To his dismay Hektu found his apocalyptic prediction would be incorrect, and that he had sent his son away into the stars needlessly. Creation Wundarr the Aquarian is a Marvel Comics character created by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik in Adventure into Fear #17 in October 1973. His first appearance was written to be a parody of the origin of the D.C Comics iconic hero Superman. The Aquarian was one of four characters to be relaunched in 2005 as Marvel.com presented them as choices.

Key facts

Aquarian is of alien origin and first appeared in "It Came Out Of The Sky!". The character is published by Marvel. With 102 recorded issue appearances, Aquarian ranks among the most featured characters in comics.