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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Blazing Skull also known as Smoking Head . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Golden age character that was reintroduced in the 2005 New Invaders series.
History
Foreign correspondent Mark Todd, assigned by his newspaper to cover the Second Sino-Japanese War, was forced to take refuge in a cave during an artillery bombardment by the Japanese. There he met the Skullmen who all had skulls that were on fire. They informed him that he was the chosen by the forces of destiny to be the champion of freedom and began to train him, specially in his immunity to fire. Once his training was done he returned home and motivated to fight the Axis powers, donned on a uniform with a flaming mask (a tribute to the Skull men) and became the Blazing Skull.
As time passed and he continued to master the Skull Men's teachings, he would gain the ability to turn his flesh invisible, mimicking his teachers appearance, and stopped using the mask.
Soon after , Todd became involved with the the Invaders and saved the Sub-Mariner's life. He aided the team against the Axis powers. He also fought alongside the team during a massed Allied superhuman airdrop into a Nazi stronghold.
As the war in Europe came to a close, the Blazing Skull teamed with Union Jack and the Destroyer to break up an enemy spy-ring in England.A simulacrum of the Blazing Skull was temporarily created from the mind of Rick Jones, along with those of the Patriot, the Fin, and the Golden Age Angel and Vision, to aid the superhero team the Avengers during the Kree-Skrull War.
In Modern day the Blazing Skull reappeared unaged due to his healing factor as a captive. He was recruited by the U.S. Agent into a new, present-day version of the Invaders. Blazing Skull is now mentaly unstable, after having spent several decades in a Middle East prison, where he was beaten, urinated upon on a daily basis, and insulted so frequently that he began to think the insult was his name.
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Due to the training he received from the Skull Men, Blazing Skull is immune to fire. He also possesses superhuman strength, a regenerative healing factor, and the ability to turn his flesh invisible, giving him the appearance of a walking skeleton. He later gained the ability to project and expel flame.
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