Marvel: The Lost Generation

The UnOfficial Handbook of the Marvel: The Lost Generation Universe
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EFFIGY

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Codename:	Effigy
Real Name:	Velmax
Sex:	Male
Race:	Skrull
Occupation:	Part of the Nixon Administration (current), Lieutenant of the 21st Observation Corps (former)
Identity:	Secret
Legal Status:	Citizen of the Skrull Empire, naturalised citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Other Aliases:	Under-Secretary Jacob Scott
Place of Birth:	Unrevealed
Marital Status:	Unrevealed
Known Relatives:	Unrevealed
Current Group Membership:	The First Line
Former Group Membership:	N/A
Base of Operations:	The Carmody Institute

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Height:	Unrevealed
Weight:	Unrevealed
Eyes:	(as Effigy) Blue; (as Scott) Brown; (as Skrull) Pink
Hair:	(as Effigy) Blonde; (as Scott) Greying; (as Skrull) None
Other Distinguishing Features:	Like his entire race, Effigy (when in his natural Skrull form) has green skin, large pointed ears and a furrowed chin.
Strength Level:	Unrevealed
Known Superhuman Powers:	see Other Abilities
Other Abilities:	Like all Skrulls, Effigy is a shape-shifter. Thus he can imitate the appearance of anyone he likes.

PARAPHERNALIA

Costume Specifications:	Unrevealed
Personal Weaponry:	Unrevealed
Special Weaponry:	Unrevealed
Other Accessories:	Unrevealed
Transportation:	Unrevealed
Design and Manufacture of Paraphernalia:	Unrevealed

BIBLIOGRAPHY

First Appearance:	Marvel: The Lost Generation #12
Origin Issue:	Marvel: The Lost Generation #4
Significant Issues:	Marvel: TLG #1 (found out that Patrick Carney wanted to recruit a new Captain America); Marvel: TLG #2 (with The Yankee Clipper - Liberty Girl and The Black Fox fought alongside the Monster Hunters against a monster attacking a Long Island Research Center, fought Scythe and Blackjack, followed the spy into the missing Skrull spacecraft, shot by the bio-moleculizer, transformed in front of The Yankee Clipper (II), taken to Suffolk County Hospital, healed from his injuries by Nightingale, used this as an excuse to overtly use his powers, given the codename Effigy by the Black Fox, helped the Yankee Clipper (II) form the First Line); Marvel: TLG #3 (alongside the rest of the First Line learnt about the President wanting to send a man to the moon, alongside the First Line met up with the Black Fox outside the secret headquarters of the Yellow Claw, fought the Claw and his minions); Marvel: TLG #4 (In 1947 Lieutenant Velmax and his Commander Zuhn crashed landed in the American Southwest - both were injured, watched as his Commander was shot by a human, shape-changed to scare the human who crashed his jeep and died, Velmax sealed his dying Commander in a Med-Pod then assumed the form of Jacob Scott, over the years made a political career for himself and got a job working for the F.B.I. whilst regaining the parts of his Skrull ship, in 1963 with the First Line when they went to Dallas - Texas following a premonition by Nightingale, they fought Howler and Chimera, watched whilst Chimera murdered Liberty Girl, fought Chimera and fatally wounded him, learned that the dying Chimera was in fact Commander Zuhn who hadn't died 16 years earlier, left Dallas with the First Line with the body of Liberty Girl); Marvel: TLG #5 (with the First Line during their joint mission with Captain Hip and Sunshine, whilst on reconnaissance found Rumor and Venus, followed Rumor to keep an eye on him, detained Rumor); Marvel: TLG #6 (with the First Line fought super-villains employed by Skrulls, reunited with members of his own race, horrified to find out what Skrulls had planned for Earth, destroyed Skrull ship, with First Line saved Apollo 11 mission to the moon); Marvel: TLG #7 (involved in meeting with President Nixon which the Black Fox interrupted, personal meeting with the Black Fox re: the legal status of the First Line, dissuaded President Nixon from sending the FBI after the Black Fox, couldn't prevent President Nixon from ending Federal Authorization for the First Line, contemplated replacing President Nixon but thought better of it, phoned Bob Woodward at the Washington Post with some unrevealed information); Marvel: TLG #9 (brought the First Line back together for the fated Halwani mission, in order to retrieve Mr. Justice); Marvel: TLG #10 (battled Deviants with the First Line at the Carmody Institute, revealed his guise as Under-Secretary Scott to Nick Fury); Marvel: TLG #11 (interogated Imperial Skrull Captain Zankor at the Carmody Institute); Marvel: TLG #12 (jury rigged a Skrull Battlecruiser in order to destroy the Skrull invasion fleet, died after being shot in the back by another Skrull, whilst dying revealed himself to be a Skrull to Pixie).

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