Baal
Storm God of the Mesopotamian religions.
Name:
Baal
Publisher:
Real name:
Ba'al-Hadad
Aliases:
- Ba'al Hadad
- Teshub
- Adad
- Haddu
- Ishkur
- Ba'al
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
- Adaptive
- Agility
- Blast Power
- Claws
- Divine Powers
- Fire Control
- Force Field
- Healing
- Immortal
- Intellect
- Invulnerability
- Leadership
- Magic
- Power Item
- Precognition
- Stamina
- Stealth
- Super Hearing
- Super Sight
- Super Speed
- Super Strength
- Teleport
- Unarmed Combat
- Vampirism
- Weather Control
First issue:
Psycho (1971) #4
Baal is the Storm and Rain god of various Mesopotamian belief systems. Ba'al is a wider term for "Lord," and so he is also known as Hadad, Adad, Iskur.
Marvel Comics
Thunder War
In the Marvel universe, the Norse god Thor confirms that Hadad is the eldest of Earth's Storm Gods. While Thor's father Odin was a relatively young god in 1,000,000 B.C., Hadad is confirmed to be 1 billion years in age. A being of great cosmic power and malevolence, Hadad was contained by The One Above All. However Thor warns the Omega mutant Storm that Earth's Storm Gods have sensed his return in the near future, and a civil war is emerging among them known as the Thunder War between those who seek to stop Hadad's return and those who welcome it.
