Living Totem (Alien) (Earth-616)

Living Totem
Name	Unrevealed
Current Alias	Living Totem
Aliases	The Terrible Totem
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Ally of the Iron Mask
Physical Characteristics
Height	75′ (22.86 m)
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Alien
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Base of Operations	Old West
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
First	Rawhide Kid #22 (March, 1961)
First	Rawhide Kid #22 (March, 1961)

History

A stranded alien who crashed in the American southwest, the Living Totem wished to destroy all humans he came across. The Rawhide Kid speculated that native medicine men must have stranded him deep underground to prevent his reign of terror on mankind. In the early 1870s the Living Totem was accidentally freed when Ben Bragg, the foreman of the silver mine above where the Living Totem was trapped, blasted too deep, awakening and freeing the alien. The Totem vowed to resume his attack on humanity, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. He was confronted by the Rawhide Kid, however, who had been working at the mine in order to hide from a posse that had been chasing him across the desert. Several times the Kid thought he was done for, but managed to evade the alien's assaults, until the Totem trapped him, the posse that had been chasing him, and the mine workers all within the mine to starve to death. The Kid was the only one of the men small enough to crawl through a hole in the mine wall and escaped to confront the Totem again, leaving the others to think that he had abandoned them. This time the Totem vowed to crush the Kid, but with one last lunge, the Kid managed to knock the alien over the edge of Bottomless Canyon, to what the Kid believed to be his death, or at least trapped forever.

The Living Totem, however, survived as he by the year 1876 was recruited as the ultimate weapon in a group of western outlaws led by the Iron Mask. When the rest of the Mask's veritable army of villains, which included Dr. Danger, Fat Man, Hurricane, Rattler and the Red Raven, were defeated by the combined might of Phantom Rider, the Two-Gun Kid the Rawhide Kid and the time displaced West Coast Avengers; the Living Totem was summoned to turn the tide of battle in his favor. The Totem proved to be no match for the Avengers, however, as Mockingbird tripped his legs and Iron Man buried him under a cliff.

At some point the monster hunter known as Ulysses Bloodstone hunted after the Living Totem, but this hunt was of no success.

Attributes

Powers

The Living Totem possesses superhuman size, strength and durability. Presumably these are typical attributes of a member of the Totem's race.

Paraphernalia

Transportation

The Living Totem presumably had a crash-landed spacecraft from his initial arrival on Earth.

See Also

• 2 appearance(s) of Living Totem (Alien) (Earth-616)
• 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Living Totem (Alien) (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Living Totem (Alien) (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Living Totem (Alien) (Earth-616)

Links and References

• http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/ltotem.htm