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Simon Garth, the Zombie
Also called: The Zombie
Simon Garth is Marvel's voodoo zombie, created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett for a 1953 horror story and brought back in the 1970s. He is a strong, nearly mindless corpse that obeys whoever holds his amulet. He has returned in several later Marvel series.1
First appeared
1953
Menace #5, July 1953Source work
Menace #5 (1953)
Stan Lee and Bill Everett (Atlas Comics)Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
A voodoo priestess transforms his corpse after a cult kills him.How you become one
A New Orleans coffee executive is kidnapped for sacrifice by a voodoo cult, and the priestess turns his body into a zombie.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
- whoever holds the matching Amulet of Damballah commands him
When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1953Menace #5, July 1953
field notes
What the sources say
1
He is nearly mindless but keeps a trace of soul and conscience1
2
Supernaturally strong, with mystical healing1
3
Revived by Marvel in the black-and-white magazine Tales of the Zombie (1973-1975)1
4
Later stories gave him free will, which is unusual for the undead1
5
Ranked nineteenth among Marvel's monsters by Den of Geek1
Sources
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Solomon Grundy