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The Possessor is a fictional character appearing in publications from Marvel Comics. The character...

The Possessor is a fictional character appearing in publications from Marvel Comics. The character is one of the Elders of the Universe. His name comes from his self-given title Possessor of the Runestaff, a powerful alien artifact. Kamo Tharnn, the Possessor, was a librarian, scholar, and seeker of knowledge on the planet Rus, in the Scion system in the Andromeda Galaxy. He considers the mystic Runestaff the "key" to all knowledge in the universe. Tharnn acquired the power object by killing its previous owner; his first attempt to use it drew the inhabitants of the library-planet on which he lived into the staff itself, blinded him, and drove him mad. The Runestaff was once stolen by the goddess Sif, and used by the Vizier of Asgard to save the life of the dying mortal Jane Foster by infusing the life force of Sif into her. Sif's life force subsequently overwhelmed Foster's, which entered the pocket dimension accessible through the staff and thereafter the Possessor's own body. The Possessor later battled Hercules and the Champions of Los Angeles. The Runestaff was used by Darkstar to destroy the Stranger's anti-life bomb. The Possessor was later rescued from alien invaders by