Saturday Showcase: Cyclone (André Gerard)

 

Today's Showcase features another one of the Scourge's victims who was later resurrected by the Hood only to  be killed by Frank Castle aka the Punisher.  This villain has fought Spider-Man and Moon Knight in his prime.  He had a good career as a villain until the Scourge of the Underworld put him down,  Let's learn about how vital h is to the Marvel Universe.

André Gerard was born in Lyon, France. Mr. Gerard was a French engineer working for NATO but he had a falling out with his former employees based on the development of a weapon that generates high velocity tornado-like winds. So André took his invention and used it for his own criminal ends, developing his costume and other weapons. Since h e had the capability of creating tornado-like winds, he named himself Cyclone.  Like many criminal masterminds in Spider-Man comics, he decided to form a gang and capture J. Jonah Jameson, the owner of the Daily Bugle, and like so many criminal masterminds who follow this plan, he was defeated by Spider-Man.  He also attempted to  kidnap Joseph "Robbie" Robertson, but was again defeated by Spider-Man.

André  was broken out of prison by the Masked Marauder and employed by the Nefaria Family of the Maggia as an enforcer. Cyclone was sent to kill Spider-Man and Moon Knight, but was defeated by Moon Knight.

He was doing relatively well for himself, in spite of his defeats at the hands of Spider-Man. Concerned over the deaths of various costumed villains by the vigilante Scourge organization, Cyclone attended a meeting at the "Bar with No Name" in Medinah County, Ohio, to deal with the Scourge and was shot to death by a Scourge agent posing as the bartender.

Cyclone was later among the eighteen victims of Scourge to be resurrected by Hood using the power of Dormammu as part of a squad assembled to eliminate the Punisher.  After the Punisher is captured, he is present at the ritual where the Hood intends to resurrect the Punisher's family. The Hood gives the Punisher a knife to sacrifice G. W. Bridge, but the Punisher instead uses the knife to slash Cyclone's throat.

Publication Information

Publisher:  Marvel Comics

First Appearance:  The Amazing Spider-Man #143 (April 1975)

Created by Gerry Conway & Ross Andru

Full Name: André Gerard

Team Affiliations:

• Maggia
• NATO

Partnerships:

• Hood

Abilities

Expert engineer

Gifted intellect

His Costume grants the ability to create whirlwind

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