Fire-Eater is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

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Publication history

Fire-Eater first appeared in Marvel Two-In-One

Marvel Two-in-One

Marvel Two-In-One was an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics that featured the Fantastic Four member, the Thing, in a different team-up each issue with a different character. The series continued from the team-up stories starring the Thing in the final two issues of Marvel...

#76 (June 1981), and was created by David Michelinie

David Michelinie

-Biography:Some of his earliest work is for DC Comics's House of Secrets and a run on Swamp Thing , following Len Wein and preceding Gerry Conway, illustrated by Nestor Redondo. Michelinie did a run on Aquaman in Adventure Comics which led to the revival of the Sea King's own title in 1977...

, Tom DeFalco

Tom DeFalco

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, and Jerry Bingham

Jerry Bingham

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The character subsequently appears in Ghost Rider #72-73 (September-October 1982).

Fire-Eater appeared as part of the "Circus of Crime" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

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Fictional character biography

Tomas Ramirez was born in Madrid, Spain. He uses the traditional methods of circus fire-eaters, and can consume flame within his mouth and then project it from his mouth without suffering injury. He uses incendiary "inferno discs" designed by himself and the Clown

Clown (comics)

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. He works for the criminal organization, the Circus of Crime

Circus of Crime

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Powers and abilities

Fire-Eater has a little resistance to fire. He uses inferno discs to allow him to release a stream of fire from his mouth.