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The Air-Walker (Gabriel Lan) (also known as Gabriel the Air-Walker) is a character in the fictional...

The Air-Walker (Gabriel Lan) (also known as Gabriel the Air-Walker) is a character in the fictional Marvel Universe. The character was created by Stan Lee and John Buscema and first appears in Fantastic Four #120 (vol. 1, Mar. 1972). Gabriel Lan was a member of the Xandarian Nova Corps and the captain of the diplomatic and exploratory spaceship "Way-Opener". Returning from a mission in space, the Way-Opener was confronted by the vessel of the cosmic entity Galactus, who abducts Lan and offers to transform him into a herald, in a similar fashion to the Silver Surfer. A willing Lan accepts and becomes the Air-Walker. Pyreus Kril, the Way-Opener's first officer and Lan's friend, becomes obsessed with finding Galactus after the abduction. Lan becomes devoted to Galactus, and on one journey to seek a planet for sustenance for Galactus, battles the alien race the Ovoids. The Ovoids manage to kill Lan, but not before Galactus retrieves and transfers the last spark of Lan's soul to an android body. Dissatisfied with the android, Galactus sends it to Earth to re-enlist the Silver Surfer as his Herald. The Air-Walker encounters the Fantastic Four, and is then defeated by the Surfer, who