Tuk

Real Name: Tuk

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Caveboy

Affiliations: Ak (foster father), Tanir the Cro-Magnon, Princess Eve

Enemies: Gholla, Kag, Gru, Bonzo, Goreks, witches of Endor

Known Relatives: Unnamed parents (both deceased)

Aliases: Avenger (translation of his name)

Base of Operations: Earth, c. 50,000 B.C.

First Appearance: Captain America Comics #1 (Timely Comics, March 1941)

Powers/Abilities: Good fighter

History: (Captain America Comics #1-5, ga) Tuk was the child of a pair of "hairless ones" abandoned by their own kind on the shores of a distant land. His father died soon after this, skewered on the horn of a wooly rhino, but the mother and child survived thanks this attack thanks to being rescued by Ak, "last of the shaggy ones". Ak continued to look after them both, and when Tuk's mother was gored to death by Gru, the lion, Ak raised the young boy himself. When Tuk was about ten, Ak told him of his heritage, and the young lad set off to explore his world, making friends with Tanir the Cro-Magnon and aiding the Princess Eve in regaining the throne of Atlantis.

Comments: Thanks to Jess Nevins for allowing me to use information from his excellent Golden Age Heroes Directory and his Guide to Golden Age Marvel Characters. Thanks also to Richard Boucher & Darrin Wiltshire @ PR-Publications for permission to use information from their equally brilliant collection of Golden Age Sites, PR Publications. Their knowledge of Golden Age characters far outstrips my own.

CLARIFICATIONS: None

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