Killer Shrike (Simon Maddicks) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics supervillain. He first appeared in Rampaging Hulk #1 (January 1977) and was created by John Warner and John Buscema
Simon Maddicks was born in Williamsburg, Virginia. He began his career as a soldier in the United States Army. However, after that, not even Maddicks recalls much about his own past for some reason. When he was selected to be a special agent of the Roxxon Oil C...
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Killer Shrike (Simon Maddicks) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics supervillain. He first appeared in Rampaging Hulk #1 (January 1977) and was created by John Warner and John Buscema
Simon Maddicks was born in Williamsburg, Virginia. He began his career as a soldier in the United States Army. However, after that, not even Maddicks recalls much about his own past for some reason. When he was selected to be a special agent of the Roxxon Oil Company, Maddicks became a mercenary and professional criminal, more specifically a special agent in covert operations. He was sent to the Mutagenics Laboratory of the Brand Corporation, where he underwent extensive conditioning which increased his human abilities. He also underwent surgery which implanted a miniature anti-gravity generator in his spine. Roxxon later gave Maddicks his super-villain costume and the codename "Killer Shrike".
For his first mission, Roxxon sent him to infiltrate the subversive organization called the Conspiracy,...
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