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Friday, October 11, 2019

Flashback Friday: Reptil

Each Friday, I take one of the entries from my old Super Posts and expand it into its own featured article.

This week: Reptil!


Reptil is one of the very rare cases of a character being created for a toyline and then transitioning into comics. The only time I can think of that happening outside of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is DC's Nite-Lik. (Of course, there are other examples that didn't occur to me.) He was created for Marvel's "Super Hero Squad" line of figurines, but strangely, the only figurine of his I can find online is from 2010, well after all the other appearances I plan to mention. His earliest appearance that I can find is a tie-in comic book one-shot Marvel Super Hero Squad: Hero Up! #1 (January 2009).


He later appeared in The Super Hero Squad Show episode, "To Err is Superhuman" (September 2009), but in between those two appearances, he appeared in Avengers: The Initiative - Featuring Reptil #1 (March 2009).


Reptil's real name is Humberto Lopez and he possesses a magic medallion that allows him to turn any part of his body into any part of any dinosaur's body. He was a main character in Avengers Academy and has likewise appeared in other teen-hero-centric things like Avengers Arena.

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