Full Body Battle Armor
Custom-engineered exo-suit providing enhanced durability, integrated weapons, and the full visual intimidation package in yellow and green.
Classified Dossier
Meet the other Anthony Power. He has a PhD, a custom battle suit, and a 40-year grudge against Professor X.
a.k.a. "Number One" · Secret Empire
Historian. Presidential advisor. Right-wing extremist with a fully-weaponized exo-suit and a genuinely alarming long-term plan for global domination. "The gentleman's name is POWER!" (XF Annual #9)
"World peace is only achievable when power is concentrated in the right hands."
— Professor Power, missing the point entirely
Threat Assessment
The man inside the suit is dangerous. The suit makes him catastrophic.
Custom-engineered exo-suit providing enhanced durability, integrated weapons, and the full visual intimidation package in yellow and green.
Fired directly from the right forefinger. Compact, targeted, and frankly one of the most specific weapon integrations in Marvel villain history.
Integrated jet engines allow sustained autonomous flight. Because a historian with globalist ambitions needs efficient transportation.
PhD in political science and history. Advised the President of the United States. Founded a shadow empire. Outmaneuvered S.H.I.E.L.D. multiple times. Don't sleep on the academic.
Publication Record
Created as an obscure villain in 1982 who turned out to be anything but (at least to me). He's faced Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and S.H.I.E.L.D. — and walked away from all of them.
First appearance. Spider-Man and Wolverine are tested inside Power's flying castle. A new extremist with a weaponized suit, a private army dressed as Roman soldiers, and a suspiciously grandiose name.
Power kidnaps Professor X and attempts to harvest his psychic abilities through Mentallo. A stray psychic blast leaves his son Matthew's mind irreparably damaged. Things escalate.
Power transfers his consciousness into his son Matthew's body to gain superhuman strength. He immediately goes after the X-Men. Spider-Man and Beast intervene — the Beast's mother talking him down is the only thing that saves them.
As "Number One," founds the third Secret Empire. Deploys Leviathan, Mad Dog, and Mutant Force against the Defenders. Attempts to launch a mind-control satellite to trigger World War III. The man does not think small.
Cameo. Power's stolen Stark technology puts him squarely in the crosshairs of the Armor Wars.
John Walker (Captain America) is sent to bring Power in. Walker loses control and beats him to death. An unambiguous end. Narrator: It was not the end.
Cameo. A brief appearance in a landmark issue — also the one where John Walker, the man who beat Power to death, hands back the shield. Small world.
Power resurfaces running an underground armor-dealing operation, selling Iron Monger and Force Ten suits to the highest bidders. Iron Man, Darkhawk, and the Scarlet Witch shut it down — but don't stop him.
Returns in a cybernetically augmented version of Matthew's body. Takes down the X-Men single-handedly. Jean Grey enters his mind and forces him to face his guilt. The suit becomes a life-support system. S.H.I.E.L.D. takes the castle.
Power's disembodied consciousness animates two robots to hijack a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport carrying his own cybernetic body. He takes it back, fights off X-Factor, and escapes. The man is nothing if not resourceful.
Cameo. Still out there, still scheming — a brief appearance in the opening issue of Matt Fraction's landmark run.
Infiltrates a high school undercover as "Doctor Powers" to run a Secret Empire mind-control beta test on students. Continues operating from a sewer prison while directing operatives against Nomad and Arãa in Captain America #602–605.
Most recent confirmed appearance. Attends the Criminal Technology Show in Las Vegas, bidding on new weapons. Business as usual.
A Coincidence Or Destiny?
Anthony Power has a PhD in political science and a forty-year plan for world domination. The other Anthony Power has a small comic collection and a website. You're on that website right now.
Meet the Real One