Shadrac

Name: Gregory Herd

Relatives: Anna, wife (Aura) (Deceased)

Allies: Aura, Norman Osborn, Doctor Octopus II, Spider-Man, Iceman, Mattie Franklin, Madame Web, Flesh And Bones

Enemies: Dolman, Spider-Man, Iceman, Spider-Woman III

Powers: Originally, he had a mechanical apparatus in his costume that allowed him to override and control electrical and mechanical devices. Due to the Gathering Off The Five ceremony, this has been absorbed into his physiology and can now override emotions as well, but his main power is the mystical flames which are killing him.

Origin: Dr. Gregory Herd and his wife, Aura, once sought a career in costumed crime. Then Anne was injured, and in order to save her Greg threw his lot in with Norman Osborn, and risked all in the magical ritual called the Gathering of Five. He failed- and received the living death, which are the flames eating away at his body.

1st Appearance (Override): Spectacular Scarlet Spider #1

1st Appearance (Shadrac): Amazing Spider-Man V2 #2

February 1999

Origin (Shadrac): Amazing Spider-Man V2 #2

Last Seen: Spider-Woman V3 #4

Fear Rating: 3 (out of 10)

Shadrac Appearances
Date	Issue	Comments
2/99	Amazing Spider-Man #443	1st appearance and battle with Mattie Franklin Spider-Man
3/99	Amazing Spider-Man #444	Spider-Man & Iceman battle Shadrac
3/99	Peter Parker: Spider-Man #101	Spider-Man & Iceman continue battling Shadrac
9/99	Spider-Woman V3 #3	Shadrac allies himself with Flesh And Bones
10/99	Spider-Woman V3 #4	Shadrac battles Spider-Woman III

Brief History

Greg and Annie Herd, better known in the criminal world as Aura and Override were first seen as part of a group of mercenaries organized by the second Doctor Octopus in the Scarlet Spider-Man titles, first in Spectacular Scarlet Spider #1. After being defeated, they went on to become bounty hunters, and when they went after Spider-Man, Greg's wife Annie got caught in a force field with a laser-beam, which ended up crippling her and leaving her dependant on a life support machine. Greg was seen many times grieving over her at the hospital and elsewhere. He was at wit's end and didn't know what to do in order to save her. Of all people, Norman Osborn came with some help.

Greg eventually gave in and decided to become part of the Gathering Five ceremony began by Norman Osborn, in order to pay her very expensive doctor bills. The ritual of five people vying for one of five great powers: Power, Knowledge, Immortality, Insanity, and Death. Trying to gain a power that would help her heal, he instead received Death in Amazing Spider-Man #441, and was enslaved my Dolman, a mysterious necromancer in search of an object used in the ritual. After battling Spider-Man, Spider-Woman III, and the X-Man Iceman, Shadrac eventually defeated Dolman, and was merged with him to stop him from destroying the world. Presumably, he still is out there somewhere

Thanks to Robert Norton for writing the profile

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