![]() ![]() Upon learning the truth, Eric confronted Nekra, only to revert to being a corpse. But Grim Reaper would fall to his death trying to escape from the Avengers when they came to free the pair.Īfter learning how to raise the dead from Black Talon, Nekra reanimated Grim Reaper as a zombie, keeping the fact he was a zombie from him. His plan? Scan the minds of Vision and Wonder Man, purge any uncommon thoughts, and transfer "pure Simon Williams consciousness" into the zombie. Aided by Black Talon and Nekra, Grim Reaper held off an attack by Vision and Scarlet Witch, escaping with a zombie duplicate of Simon in exchange for Scarlet Witch's life. ![]() Convinced that neither the Vision nor Wonder Man were fully Simon, Grim Reaper sent Ultron-12, Goliath, and Man-Ape to capture Hank Pym and Wonder Man and place them in an energicage. To his dismay, Wonder Man joined the Avengers, and in a battle between the brothers, Simon broke the scythe and knocked Eric out. Some time later, Grim Reaper hired Black Talon to raise and reanimate his brother, Wonder Man. Again, the Grim Reaper's actions were altered by the Vision, still in possession of Simon's mind, and he sided with the Avengers to stop the Space Phantom from killing him. Once the imprisoned Avengers were freed, the team was confronted by Grim Reaper, the Space Phantom, and a number of Hydra soldiers. The Vision agreed, as a ruse to free the Avengers that the pair had captured. After unsuccessfully trying to talk the Vision into transferring his mind into the preserved body of his brother, Grim Reaper paired up with the Space Phantom, and upped the ante with the Vision by suggesting he could transfer his mind into the living body of Captain America. However, the Vision was in possession of Simon's brainwave patterns, rendering Grim Reaper unable to take him out and, ultimately, resulting in the Legion's defeat. Undeterred, Grim Reaper attacked the Avengers again, this time alongside his Lethal Legion, a team comprised of himself, Living Laser, Power Man, Man-Ape, and the Swordsman. Grim Reaper's first attack against the Avengers resulted in their defeat, but the arrival of the Black Panther thwarted his plans. Armed with his new weapon, Eric took the name Grim Reaper. ![]() When Eric heard of his brother's death, the enraged man contacted the Tinkerer, who provided Eric with his scythe weapon, a 48-inch-long weapon that can cause concussive plasma blasts, place people into a coma (before their death after three hours), spray a cloud of gas that knocks people out, and become a high-speed buzzsaw that rotates at 6000 RPM. Baron Zemo freed Simon from jail and gave him ionic powers as Wonder Man in exchange for infiltrating and defeating the Avengers, only for Simon to die saving the Avengers from Zemo's grasp. However, when Williams Innovations began to fail, partly due to competition from one Stark Industries, Simon turned to Eric and the Maggia for help, but was caught and imprisoned for embezzling money from the company to invest with Eric. As they grew, their lives took very different paths: Eric eventually joined the Maggia (Marvel's "Mafia") in Las Vegas, while Simon took over Williams Innovations, the family business. Simon, ravaged by guilt for not having stopped the incident, resolved to be responsible for Eric. One fateful day, Eric was playing with chemicals in the garage, which sparked a fire that burned the Williams home to the ground. Eric Williams, Grim Reaper's true identity, is the abused and unloved black sheep of the wealthy Williams family, which also includes Eric's brother Simon, the favored son. Grim Reaper's story begins in the pages of Avengers #52, published May 1968. ![]()
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