Who Is Porcupine? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Porcupine is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Alexander Gentry, with over 136 comic issue appearances. Alex Gentry, the Porcupine, was one of the first Marvel silver age villains and most notably fought against Ant-Man and Captain America, but also faced the Avengers, the X-Men and the Defenders.

Who is Porcupine?

Origin Alexander Gentry Alexander Gentry, was originally a scientist who worked as a weapons designer for the United States Army, conceived the idea of designing a battle-suit in imitation of a porcupine: the suit would be covered with quill-like projections for defense. The suit would be able to shoot its quills, or gases, flames, chemicals, paralysis-inducing pellets, or weapons from quill-like tubes, at an opponent. Gentry spends months working overtime to create his porcupine battle-suit. He is proud of his achievement when the suit was finished, and believes his invention is worth a fortune. Yet Gentry also believes that the government would pay him, one of its employees, virtually nothing for his creation. Angrily, Gentry decides to keep the porcupine battle-suit and to use it to become wealthy through crime. Thus, Gentry became the Porcupine, one of the first costumed professional criminals of his generation. Creation Porcupine was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck Character Evolution Alexander Gentry Porcupine I Alex Gentry was one of the first generation Marvel villains of the silver age who appeared in the early 60's fighting Hank Pym .

Key facts

Porcupine is of human origin and first appeared in "Ant-Man And The Wasp Defy The Porcupine!". The character is published by Marvel. With 136 recorded issue appearances, Porcupine ranks among the most featured characters in comics.