Solarr
Solarr is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema, the character first appeared in Captain America #160. He belongs to the subspecies of humans called mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities.
Publication history
Solarr debuted in Captain America #160 and was created by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema. He appeared in the 1963 Avengers series.Fictional character biography
Silas King was born in Carson City, Nevada. King is a latent mutant and drug runner whose mutant gene activates when he spends several days out in the desert sun after his truck breaks down. While recovering from sunstroke and dehydration in a hospital, King realizes that he can absorb and discharge solar energy. He becomes a criminal known as Solarr and joins the Emissaries of Evil.Solarr is eventually captured and imprisoned at Project Pegasus, where scientists study his powers. One of the other captives and subjects for study at Project Pegasus is Bres, an other-dimensional being. One of the other captives and subjects for study at Project Pegasus was Bres, one of the other-dimensional Fomor. After Solarr kills Project Pegasus guard Harry Winslow, Bres resurrects Winslow and has him kill Solarr.
Many years after his death, Solarr is resurrected by the Five. During the "Fall of X" storyline, Solarr is among the mutants who take refuge at the Limbo embassy. He is later killed by an alternate version of Madelyne Pryor.