Pariah (Earth-616)

Pariah
Name	Unrevealed
Current Alias	Pariah
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Unusual Features	Pariah is a walking skeleton.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human transformed into a Demon
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Citizenship	American
Occupation	gunslinger
Base of Operations	Whispering Wells, New Mexico
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema
First	Incredible Hulk #268 (November, 1981)
First	Incredible Hulk #268 (November, 1981)
Death	Incredible Hulk #268 (November, 1981)
Death	Incredible Hulk #268 (November, 1981)

History

An unnamed gunslinger came to the ghost town of Whispering Wells in 1871, searching for a rumored Indian burial ground containing treasure. He discovered the skeleton of a prospector clutching what he believed to be a precious stone and prized it from the corpse's grasp, but was immediately possessed by the Spirits in the Stone, demonic entities which feed on the souls of the living. Seeing that the gunslinger had no soul on which to feed, they instead used his body as a host, a skeletal ghost accompanied everywhere he went by a churning dust cloud, but he was apparently unable to leave Whispering Wells. When the Hulk arrived in the town in search of Rick Jones (who had almost become one of Pariah's victims), Pariah sensed the power within him and tried to drain it off in order to escape the ghost town, but the enraged Hulk crushed the Spirit Stone to powder and the dead gunslinger immediately disintegrated, followed shortly afterward by the town itself.

See Also

• 1 appearance(s) of Pariah (Earth-616)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Pariah (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Pariah (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Pariah (Earth-616)