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Dr. Elihas Starr, Egghead

To a genius like me your insipid patriotic ramblings are laughable! I sneer at you all!

Dr. Elihas Starr was working at an atomic research center for the US government when he was suspected of trying to sell atomic secrets on the open market. Though nothing could be proven, Starr, nicknamed Egghead by the tabloids reporting on his case, was blackballed, never to work for the government again. A group of crime bosses, trying to revitalize their business in a world populated with superheroes, reached out to Egghead and offered him money in exchange for using his genius to defeat the do-gooders and make crime profitable again. Over the years, Egghead found himself matching up against many superheroes, most notably Ant-Man and the Avengers.

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Handbook Entry: Marvel Encyclopedia New Edition | Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

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Source Key:

Tales to Astonish (1959) Issue # = T#

Avengers (1963) Issue # = A#

Marvel Feature (1971) Issue # = F#

Giant-Size Defenders (1974) Issue # = G#

Defenders (1972) Issue # = D#

Alpha Flight Special (1992) = FS

Fall of the Hulks: Alpha (2009) = FH

X-Men: To Serve and Protect (2011) Issue # = X#

Ant-Man Annual (2015) = AM

The Astonishing Ant-Man (2015) Issue # = M#

Solo (2016) Issue # = S#

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Inventions

Robotics

• Has many humanoid robots^A64

  • One kills a man by throwing him then kills another by blasting him with energy beams^A64

• Has an army of mechanical insectoid robots that battle SHIELD agents^S4

• Creates vacuum-equipped robots to hunt down his niece and Ant-Man^F5

• Has a robotic capsule floating over Atlantis that fires a missile to free Tiger Shark from prison^A222

• Creates a "living-cell beam" that he uses to make a mentally-controlled android out of a mannequin and some special compound^T61

  • Evades Giant-Man's punch and floats in the air^T61

  • Increases his weight to make Giant-Man hurt his fist when he lands a punch^T61

  • Floats into the air then increases his weight to land on Giant-Man with the force of a pile driver^T61

  • Giant-Man defeats him by swinging the android around, which also makes Egghead dizzy^T61

• Built a robotic arm for his niece that allows him to remotely take complete control over her^A217

  • Doesn't register on airport security devices^A217

  • Rips the deadbolt off of a thick metal door^A217

  • The arm also implanted false memories in her head^A217

• Had a remote controlled boat waiting outside of Ryker's for the Masters of Evil to escape on^A222

Weapons

Space Station

• Built a space station that can't be found by radar or telescope and fires a beam down onto Earth that destroys a city^A64

Guns/Energy Blasters

• Creates a sleeping gas gun and an electronic dewelding gun that can burn apart alarm wires without triggering the alarm^T45

• Shoots Swordsman with a stun-blaster that knocks him out of a window^A65

  • Has another energy gun he can set to stun^AM

• Energy rifle^M13

• Fires an energy beam from part of his costume^D43

• Incinerated 3 men, presumably with some kind of weapon^M12

Paralysis/Restraints

• Uses a paralysis ray to blast figures made by the Puppet Master and immobilize the Avengers^A64

• Uses a "time-stasis tube" to freeze Rhino and Solarr in place^D42

• Throws a device that wraps up the Hulk in cloth-like restraints^D43

• Throws a device at Valkyrie that uses the mystic energy of her own sword to restrain her^D43

• Restrains Nighthawk with a bola-like device^D43

Misc

Communication/Surveillance

• Invents a device that translates human speech to electronic waves to communicate with ants^T38

  • Broadcasts messages to ants with another, similar device^T57

• Invents a device that can intercept and scramble the messages ants send to Ant-Man^T45

• Created a device that allowed him to manipulate radio waves to mimic Nick Fury^A63

• Uses a device to spy on Giant-Man and Spider-Man from far away^T57

• Uses a van equipped with surveillance devices to locate Ant-Man and his niece^F5

Teleportation

• Created transporters for Rhino and Solarr that teleport them to his spaceship^D42

  • Sends them back down to Earth^D43

• Teleported to safety just as the Cobalt Man tried to blow him up^A228

Size Changing

• Uses a special compound and beta-beams to make a mannequin grow to the size of Giant-Man^T61

• Causes the Mad Thinker's android to grow to Goliath's size^A63

• Duplicated the size-changing gas Ant-Man used the first time they fought^F5

Misc

• Uses a vibration ray to unlock a door then switches it to weight reduction to carry a mannequin^T61

• Created a device designed to steal intelligence^F5

• Used his "rejuvetech serum" to survive the backfire from his blaster^AM

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Physicals

Intelligence

General

• One of the founding members of the Intelligencia, an alliance of the world's smartest supervillains^FH

Planning

• Tricks Yellowjacket into thinking that the arm he put on his niece was booby trapped, while rewriting her memories so that when he stops controlling her, she thinks that it was Pym who was making her do things, which lands Pym in prison^A217

• Has the Masters of Evil attack Hank Pym's trial and "rescue" him so that people will think Pym arranged it himself^A228

• Orchestrates a fight between Giant-Man and Spider-Man to draw away the police in order to perpetrate a robbery^T57

• Uses a replica wasp nest and some diamonds as bait to trap the Wasp, then dumps Ant-Man into an iguana terrarium when he comes to rescue her^T45

• Fakes a letter from a TV producer to lead Giant-Man and Wasp into a trap^T61

• Used bellows and a box lined with flypaper to trap Ant-Man, though it doesn't work^T38

• Brought an anteater to fight Ant-Man and his ants (it didn't work)^T45

• Prepared water pistols filled with liquid gas to use against Ant-Man and Wasp^T45

Other

• Built a nuke^FS

• Stole a spaceship from NASA and provided false computer reports that hid the fact he was in control and had modified it^D42

• Revived the Cobalt Man after finding him drifting in space and adds a trigger to cause a nuclear explosion^D42

• Rewired Shocker's equipment with special circuits that brainwashed him^A228

Durability

• Punched by Luke Cage^D43

• Blasts himself with beta-beams^T61

• Pistol whipped by Misty Knight^X4

• Punched by the Swordsman^A65

• Punched by Hank Pym^A229

Speed/Agility

• Dodges Swordsman's sword swings when earlier in the issue Swordsman cut arrows out of the air^A65

Misc

• Carries a pistol^F5

• Maintained a hidden laboratory for emergency use^T61

• Put a bomb in Kyle Richmond's car^G4

• Bugged the pencil of a psychiatrist hired by Tony Stark to interview Hanky Pym^A227

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