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bluegirl
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Posted 1 Year, 9 Months ago #1
In Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park, the alley leading to Doctor Doom's Fearfall ride in Marvel Superhero Island presents several faux storefronts or windows. The signs on these establishments indicate names familiar to fans of Marvel comics: 'Blaze & Ketch Garage', for example. I believe there's one for the Murdock & Nelson Law Office, and another for Gladiator's Costumes.

But one window displays, 'Robatanski's Antiques & Collectibles.' I have no idea who that is! Is he a very recent character, or perhaps a very obscure one? Many thanks if anyone can tell me if this is the secret identity of an established Marvel character.
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Posted 1 Year, 9 Months ago #2
The fact that a Google search turns nothing up for 'Robatanski' and since I've never heard the name before, leads me to believe that he was probably one of the 'Imagineers' (or whatever the Universal equivalent is...) that designed the ride, or some important aspect of it.

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Posted 1 Year, 9 Months ago #3
My topic post should have acknowledged this grim possibility (a friend of mine suggested it too). I should also mention that in addition to Google searches of both the web and usenet, I have flipped through the entire Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition, with no luck.

But those books are old now, and don't list characters that may have only appeared in one or two stories. Perhaps one of the designers used his or her own name, or the name of a coworker, but it's also possible that he or she used the name of an obscure throwaway Marvel character, just for laughs. (Like, I dunno, White Rabbit's chauffeur or something.) So I'm keeping alive a teeny bit of hope.
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Posted 1 Year, 9 Months ago #4
If the 'story logic' applies, the hypothetical comicbook character should actually have some connection to 'antiques and collectibles', and I can't think of anyone much in Marvel comics who does. Unless you count Golden Age characters, the V Battalion, and that guy in the latest _Spider-Woman_ series who got the power of knowledge from the Gathering of the Five, and who I think runs a pawn shop or antique shop or mixture of the two. Or some super-thief like the Grey Fox or the Black Cat.

The /big/ alphabetical character index was www.chronologyproject.com , but it's a while since I visited; still, it /should/ still be there...?

I'd be glad to be told that the name /isn't/ too ethnic and hard to pronounce and remember for a major character secret identity (or is it 'Black Cat' that's the secret identity, since people who know you, know that your name is Felicia Hardy, so that /isn't/ secret?) This is a comics line whose father-figure, though more ethnically named himself (though in the end he even legally changed name), gave characters simple common anglophone alliterative names so he didn't forget who was who, and he /still/ managed to fluff the Hulk as 'Bob Banner' (retcon ahoy).

[If you can't believe I seriously mean this - unfortunately I do. Hey, I'm British, what do I know from anything?]

If the name doesn't turn up on http://google.com/ at all - even in real life - I'll guess it's a misspelling (although Google now catches those for you) or some kind of compound name of more than one person? (Some guy named Robb, for a start...)
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