Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
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Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
The Marauder, Harpoon, is apparently named "Kodiak Noatak". Can anyone tell me where this name was revealed?
It might have been in a handbook. It was in 2003's "Marvel Encyclopedia vol. 2: X-Men", but that book's writer says he got it from somewhere else. Uncannyxmen.net says it was revealed in the "Wolverine Encyclopedia", but I'm not seeing it there. (Then again, it may have been in an entry other than Harpoon's own.)
Anyone know?
-Jeph!
It might have been in a handbook. It was in 2003's "Marvel Encyclopedia vol. 2: X-Men", but that book's writer says he got it from somewhere else. Uncannyxmen.net says it was revealed in the "Wolverine Encyclopedia", but I'm not seeing it there. (Then again, it may have been in an entry other than Harpoon's own.)
Anyone know?
-Jeph!
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
From his parents, most likely.
Okay, so you've narrowed it to prior to 2003. He made no appearances between 99 and 04.
Anyone check his entry in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89?
Okay, so you've narrowed it to prior to 2003. He made no appearances between 99 and 04.
Anyone check his entry in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89?
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
Can't he remember? If you're referring to who I think you're referring to, he has priors in this department...jephyork wrote:It was in 2003's "Marvel Encyclopedia vol. 2: X-Men", but that book's writer says he got it from somewhere else.
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Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
The Update '89 lists his real name as 'Unrevealed'.JLH wrote:Anyone check his entry in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89?
And he is not in the Master Edition.
Only three weeks on the job and already I live for seeing his forehead turn that shade of pink.
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
The information on Uncannyxmen.net, which states the name and claims that it was used in the Wolverine Handbook, was from May 2002. Eric Moreels' Marvel Encyclopedia v2: X-Men came out in late 2003. He's in the clear here.
And no, six years later he doesn't recall where he found the name during his research. (Maybe FROM uxm.net?)
I read Wolverine Encyclopedia #1-2 stem to stern and don't see it. Is there, maybe, another book out there with a similar name, that UXM.net confused it with? Maybe one of those "outside publisher" Encyclopedia-style books, like the ones DK puts out?
I checked all his comic appearances and Handbook entries -- nothing.
Maybe it was from a novel, a trading card, a gaming module?
Maybe, somehow, uxm.net got ahold of the script for the third, unreleased issue of the Wolverine Encyclopedia?
I'm open to all possibilities at this point...
-Jeph!
And no, six years later he doesn't recall where he found the name during his research. (Maybe FROM uxm.net?)
I read Wolverine Encyclopedia #1-2 stem to stern and don't see it. Is there, maybe, another book out there with a similar name, that UXM.net confused it with? Maybe one of those "outside publisher" Encyclopedia-style books, like the ones DK puts out?
I checked all his comic appearances and Handbook entries -- nothing.
Maybe it was from a novel, a trading card, a gaming module?
Maybe, somehow, uxm.net got ahold of the script for the third, unreleased issue of the Wolverine Encyclopedia?
I'm open to all possibilities at this point...
-Jeph!
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
UXN didn't start crediting the Wolverine Encyclopedia until some time between May 21 and Jun 7, 2004, judging from the Wayback Machine. I'm wondering if, in a circular piece of logic, they meant the X-Men Encyclopedia (or Wolverine Handbook)...
Well, given that he's been working for Marvel more-or-less continuously for those six years (and had a website where he did that sort of thing even before that) I thought he'd have kept notes.jephyork wrote:The information on Uncannyxmen.net, which states the name and claims that it was used in the Wolverine Handbook, was from May 2002. Eric Moreels' Marvel Encyclopedia v2: X-Men came out in late 2003. He's in the clear here.
And no, six years later he doesn't recall where he found the name during his research. (Maybe FROM uxm.net?)
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
Going back to the original X-Fan Resources page for Harpoon, Moreels calls him Kodiak "Kody" Noatak in April, 2002. The "Kody" nickname isn't seen in uncannyxmen.net. Monolith, who I assume is the same Monolith from uncannyxmen.net, responded to that Resources thread in May, 2002, saying the name only appeared in the Wolverine Encyclopedia.
Weren't there OTHER names given the Marauders in the Wolverine Encyclopedia, like John Riverwind for Scalphunter and Michael Bear for Blockbuster? It's possible the uncannyxmen.net people heard about the first two, then heard about Kodiak Noatak and just assumed that name came from the Wol. Enc. as well. Of course, that does nothing to explain where the name originally came from...
Weren't there OTHER names given the Marauders in the Wolverine Encyclopedia, like John Riverwind for Scalphunter and Michael Bear for Blockbuster? It's possible the uncannyxmen.net people heard about the first two, then heard about Kodiak Noatak and just assumed that name came from the Wol. Enc. as well. Of course, that does nothing to explain where the name originally came from...
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
No. The only Marauder whose real name was used was Phillippa Sontag, aka Arclight -- and that had already been established in the OHOTMU Update 89.Weren't there OTHER names given the Marauders in the Wolverine Encyclopedia, like John Riverwind for Scalphunter and Michael Bear for Blockbuster?
The Wolverine Encyclopedia didn't give ANY new information. It was all from the comics.
Interesting detective work, guys. Got anything else? (Maybe some more background on where "Michael Bear" and "John Riverwind" came from? I see 'em both on uxm.net, but no notation where the info came from. Also, looks like Riptide is now "Janos Questad", with a similar lack of info as to where the name came from.)
-Jeph
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
What about the Marvel RPG guidebooks? Weren't they another Handbook-like thing released between the Master Edition and the Marvel Encyclopedia? I seem to recall them giving Anne Marie Cortez of the Acolytes "empathic powers" or "enhanced agility" or something, outside of the info in the comics.
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
Good thought. Anyone have 'em, to check?
-Jeph!
-Jeph!
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
Apparently Blockbuster, Arclight, Scrambler and Riptide were named in Dragon Magazine #117.
http://www.marvelrpg.net/mp/dm117mp.pdf
However, looks like Harpoon was NOT named in there.
-Jeph
http://www.marvelrpg.net/mp/dm117mp.pdf
However, looks like Harpoon was NOT named in there.
-Jeph
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
Riptide was named back in the Deluxe Edition's entry for the deceased Marauders, but not Blockbuster or Prism. Arclight was named in the Update '89 Marauders entry (but left Unrevealed in her individual entry), as was Scrambler.
Re: Harpoon's real name -- where did it come from?
Trading cards?