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Zzzax is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The...

Zzzax is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Hulk #166 (Aug. 1973) and was created by Steve Englehart and Herb Trimpe. Debuting in the title Hulk, Zzzax is a humanoid creature formed from electricity by an act of sabotage at a Con Ed nuclear power plant in New York City. A group of terrorists destroying the dynamos started a chain reaction that causes a rapid build in energy, which takes on a life of its own and absorbs the minds of the terrorists and several engineers. By using the electrical energy from their brains, the entity is able to achieve humanoid form and sentience. Calling itself Zzzax, the entity fights the Hulk and the hero Hawkeye before being defeated. The character returns to the title Hulk and repeats its behavior at a research center in Chicago. The Hulk battles the entity to a standstill before several scientists shut the process that creates Zzzax. Zzzax reappears in the title Luke Cage, Power Man, and hunts the men responsible for its last defeat. Cage defeats the entity, but not before it kills one of the scientists. Zzzax returns in the title Hulk to confront an intelligent version of