Who Is Roger Bochs? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Roger Bochs is a Marvel comic book character, with over 86 comic issue appearances. Bochs was a genius inventor and developed a robot he nicknamed Box, that could act for him. He joined the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight's training group Beta Flight. Roger Bochs was the original user of the Box armor.

Who is Roger Bochs?

Origin Roger Bochs was born in Canada as was a brilliant engineer and mechanic who invented highly sophisticated robotics. He was also paraplegic who was missing both his legs. In particular Bochs invented a large humanoid robot which he named "Box", named as a pun on his own name Bochs. At that time James McDonald Hudson assisted Bochs in perfecting his original Box robot. Hudson offered Bochs to become a possible candidate to his newly created team of super humans titled Alpha Flight. It was Hudson's hopes that he could assemble Canada's own first superhero team which would be backed by the Canadian government as Department H and would be able to protect its interests as the Avengers or Fantastic Four has done for the United States. Creation Roger Bochs was a character who was created for the comic book series from Marvel Comics Alpha Flight. He made his first appearance as Roger Bochs (though unnamed and only in one pannel) in Alpha Flight #1 in 1983 and as Box in Alpha Flight #11 in 1984.

Key facts

Roger Bochs is of human origin and first appeared in "Tundra!". The character is published by Marvel. With 86 recorded issue appearances, Roger Bochs ranks among the most featured characters in comics.