For My World To Live, Your Children Must Die!

Can YOU

Name This Marvel Villain??

While investigating the disappearance of a number of children from the streets of New York, Captain America and the Falcon discover that they're both working the same case--at which point they cross paths with Batroc the Leaper (along with "Batroc's Brigade"), who it turns out is employed by the culprit! And while confronting Batroc, our heroic pair discover the shocking identity of their foe--one whose might beggars description!

Granted, the Stranger is well known for capturing other beings and transporting them to a planet where they are kept in captivity as specimens for study--but why take an interest in terran children, when on more than one occasion he's attempted to destroy the entire human race?

The answer comes when Cap and the Falcon make their move to stop him, only to be stopped in their tracks--and they learn that "the Stranger" is only a facade for another alien who bears his likeness, and, it would appear, much of his power.

As we might expect, Jakar's motivations prove to be wholly different from those of the Stranger, in that he seeks to return his plague-stricken people to life using the life-force of the children he abducts.

We might assume here that Jakar has succeeded in transporting the assembled children to his dimension, though he's only moved them to a hidden laboratory on the Hudson shore where his equipment will initiate the transferral. Batroc, Cap, and the Falcon all manage to track and follow, only to be captured with ease; but before the fatal switch is thrown, the Falcon manages to escape, and he and Cap wage a fierce struggle against Jakar, who it seems they can only delay.

Fortunately, that delay allows Cap to grasp at a straw which might yet see them prevail--a straw that plays on feelings of guilt which we haven't previously seen in Jakar but which surface when Cap focuses on the one member of the alien's race whose empty gaze now registers with Jakar in a much more direct way.

In spite of Jakar's good intentions, however, he's eventually intercepted by the true Stranger, who naturally considers Jakar to be a being well-suited for study on his specimen-world. It's there where Quasar, on his own mission to that world, encounters him--his excruciating captivity having made him eager for the release of death.

Jakar, along with a number of other captives, manage to escape their fate as specimens when the Over-Mind arrives and liberates them for his own purposes--after which Jakar makes dealing with the Stranger a priority, while hopefully finding the means to once again see to the revival of his people and, from there, go on to rule our universe. We've yet to see him achieve those ends--but somewhere in the universe, there's a stranger "Stranger" whose plans of revenge and conquest may one day be revived.