Who Is Isbisa? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Isbisa is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Simon Meke, with over 20 comic issue appearances. Golden and Modern villain

Who is Isbisa?

History Prior to beginning his career as a criminal, Simon Meke was an assistant at a New York museum. It was there that he became inspired to develop his criminal identity based on the stages of man. Isbisa standing in as an acronym for "Iron, Steel, Bronze, Ice, Stone, Atomic". As Isbisa, Meke started to develop a long term plan to steal an atomic bomb. Knowing that the All-Winners Squad would try and stop him, he vandalized the Ages of Man exhibit at the museum he worked at issuing a challenge to the All-Winners Squad with clues in each era. In order to distract the All-Winners he also planted the suggestion that Namor was somehow behind the plot. As the All-Winners followed Isbisa's clues, Isbisa hired various criminal gangs to deal with each of the Squad members as they reached the end of their trail of clues. After each member of his criminal consortium failed to beat the All-Winners Squad individually, the team regrouped with the knowledge that the various gangs were simply designed as a distraction from Isbisa's larger plot.

Key facts

Isbisa is of human origin and first appeared in "The Crime Of The Ages!". The character is published by Marvel. With 20 recorded issue appearances, Isbisa ranks among the most featured characters in comics.